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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! Sold out! But pop your name on our wait list here and we'll be in touch is a place comes up. 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.…
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. Sold out! But pop your name on our wait list here and we'll be in touch is a place comes up. 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 –…
Find out more »December 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. 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 decomposition (because of the lack of oxygen) and…
Find out more »January 2021
Permaculture Design Course
A part-time Permaculture Design Course to get you living the good life. Sold out – pop your name on the waitlist here. If places become available (due to COVID travel restrictions on our interstate friends) we will let you know by mid-December. 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…
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