Short Courses
One Day: Permaculture Urban Organic Growing
This one day intensive will introduce you to how Permaculture can create a self-resilient lifestyle. This day will give you key practical skills and knowledge to get you growing organic, nutrient dense food at home.
Course includes:
waste management: worm farms for you backyard or balcony
Plant needs: how to build healthy soil, manage pests naturally and choose the right plants for your space
Composting: hot and cold composting
Propagation: seed saving, cuttings and seedlings basics
You will leave with thorough knowledge on how to build a garden with your space, how to create great soil, plant needs and basic propagating your own plants.
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Please check back regularly. We will be releasing our new schedule for 2024 in the coming months. We look forward to seeing you in the upcoming year and appreciate your patience in the meantime.
Volunteering opportunities will still run as normal Wednesday and Friday. Please register here.
Thank you for being a valued part of our community, and we can't wait to see you in 2024!
Two Day Introduction to Permaculture and Regenerative Practices
Learn the basics of Permaculture, planning your produce and regenerative land practices.
This two day course integrates Permaculture principles and design as well as syntropic forestry knowledge. The course combines essential theory with practical sessions to get you ready to hit the soil running!
Topics include:
1. Permaculture: Ethics and Principles and holistic management goal setting
2. Plant needs
3. Design for success: Planting for your needs & successful growing
4. Maintenance and Pest Control
5. Seed Saving and Propagation
6. Waste and Water management
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Please check back regularly. We will be releasing our new schedule for 2024 in the coming months. We look forward to seeing you in the upcoming year and appreciate your patience in the meantime.
Volunteering opportunities will still run as normal Wednesday and Friday. Please register here.
Thank you for being a valued part of our community, and we can't wait to see you in 2024!
Past Workshops
Writing as Ritual with Nina Karnikowski
Nurture into the New Year
Ella’s Farm is delighted to host acclaimed travel writer, author and sustainability advocate Nina Karnikowski for an inspiring afternoon workshop, Writing As Ritual.
Nina's workshop will help you invite greater clarity and mindfulness into your life, through cultivating a sensuous, expressive daily writing practice. You can think of it as a form of moving meditation or free therapy, that you can bring into the new year with you. One to help you move through transitions and difficult times, and connect more deeply to the beauty of the world around you.
The afternoon will conclude with refreshments and a chance to meet the alpacas.
The Sustainable Wardrobe - Jane Milburn Textile Beat
The most sustainable clothes are ones you already own.
Knowing how to care, repair and adapt them will help reduce your material footprint. This session with slow fashion practitioner Jane Milburn applies permaculture principles to what we wear. You will come away with fresh ideas for extending the life of existing clothes and strategies for gathering garments that last.
About your teacher
Jane Milburn believes in the power of adaptation in the natural world and her own. Jane studied agricultural science and leadership before her career in rural communications and advocacy. Following this Jane founded Textile Beat and authored Slow Clothing: finding meaning in what we wear. Jane makes a compelling case for why and how changing the way we dress allows us to live lightly on Earth.
Inclusions: Farm Tour, light refreshments, discussion about slow clothing philosophy, Q&A opportunity, copy of The Process of Mending with needle the thread, practical skills for mending and adapting clothes.
What to bring: clothes that need mending, dysfunctional garments suitable for adaptation, sewing kit (needle, thread, scissors) if you have one.
Capture the Landscape - Peter Tassell
Immerse yourself in light and shade
Join us for a workshop with renown Landscape painter, Peter Tassell. Peter trained under a variety of esteemed artists including John Perkins and has toured across Australia, capturing the various landscapes of this beautiful country and taking many to the next level in their oil painting.
Peter now offers this expert eye and instruction in regular workshops on the Central Coast. Learn to mix colour and beautifully create light and shade with one of Australia's best.
What to bring: Canvas and brushes not included, details of what to bring will be emailed following your booking.
Dates: Check back regularly for dates
Time: 9am-1pm
Cost: $65
Includes farm tour and workshop.
