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September 2020
Free Home Composting Workshop
Learn how to compost your food waste at home for free! In collaboration with the City of Hobart, we’re very happy to announce more free composting workshops for YOU to support you to compost your food waste at home and keep it out of landfill where it becomes a stinky, nasty pollutant. Sold out - Join the waiting list here. BECAUSE….. Did you know that food waste comprises nearly half of the rubbish in an average household rubbish bin and that up to (and over) 40% of landfills across Australia consist of pure food waste. Yuck! Once in landfill, food waste undergoes anaerobic…
Find out more »October 2020
Introduction to Permaculture
Join us for one day of exploration into permaculture. You’ll gain a solid introduction to permaculture foundations and the framework to design your own home in the city or out bush. Sold out! Pop your name on our wait list to snaffle up any spare spaces Immerse yourself in a proactive day of thinking, learning and exploring avenues to respond to some of the biggest social, environmental and economic challenges of our time in a proactive and positive way. Learn the basics in how you can apply permaculture to everything from house design, food production, energy systems and community development,…
Find out more »November 2020
Goat Workshop
A workshop for people wanting to keep goats holistically, productively and consciously. Sold out! Pop your name on our wait list to snaffle any spare spots. Join Jilly Middleton and Hannah Moloney at Fat Pig Farm to learn about keeping goats naturally. Based on their lived experience, this workshop will provide tips, tricks and depth of information you simply can’t find in the books, or on goat forums (trust me, we’ve tried). THIS WORKSHOP WILL COVER Keeping goats to manage farm weeds, i.e. blackberries and gorse, Raising goats to be hardy and low maintenance, Domestic goat keeping: Keeping goats in urban or…
Find out more »Small Farm Design
Join Hannah Moloney and Nick Ritar at Fat Pig Farm for one day of focused learning in how to design a productive small farm - so when you set your own up, you get it right first time round! Who should come along? We've designed this workshop for hobby farmers and folks looking to embark on a small-hold commercial venture and are looking to get the foundation design right before they start digging dams and holes for fence posts. This workshop will cover Design framework - based on permaculture design. Reading the landscape so you put the right thing in…
Find out more »Real Skills For Growing Food
TWO DAYS OF HANDS-ON LEARNING, EQUIPPING YOU WITH THE SKILLS TO GROW FOOD IN YOUR OWN HOME. We’re partnering with Fat Pig Farm to bring you two days of hands-on Real Skills for Growing Food. Join us to learn the foundations in growing your own food at home – skills that you’ll have for the rest of your life. YOU’LL GET TO LEARN ALL ABOUT… Soil: If you want to grow good food, you’re going to need to know about soil – this is the key to nutritious food production. We’ll introduce you to the soil food web and explore a range of…
Find out more »January 2021
Permaculture Design Course
A part-time Permaculture Design Course to get you living the good life. Based at the Sustainable Learning Centre, Hobart, this part-time Permaculture Design Course runs in four-day blocks across three weeks. Classes run from 8:45am – 5pm each day with some occasional (fun) homework. Course dates Week 1: January 15th, 16th, 17th, 18th, 8:45am – 5pm each day Week 2: January 22nd, 23rd, 24th, 25th, 8:45am – 5pm each day Week 3: January 29th, 30th, 31st, 1st February, 8:45am – 5pm each day. I loved this course. It hasn’t just changed my outlook on life – it’s changed my life…
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