The Sustainable Living Space Project aims to make it easier to learn about upcoming courses and sessions on sustainability and the environment.
If you are running a course on sustainability, please contact us on project@sustainablelivingspace.org.au
Heritage Fruit Trees
Contact: Batch on 9850 3687
Contact: Arrabri on 9294 7530
Tutor: Peter Allen
Date: 27 July10 am – 3 pm (Arrabri)
Date: 29 August 11 am – 4 pm (Batch)
Cost: $50
How to Select, buy, plant, graft new ones and care for them. We will also discuss some of those varieties we had once and what is still available now with Apples, plums, Nashi, Pears & Cherries plus so much more.
Keeping Chooks
Contact: Park Orchards Learning Centre on 9876 4381
Tutor: Peter Allen
Date: 18 Sept, 10.00am – 3.00pm
Cost: $50
This course is for people who want to get some chooks or have just purchased some recently and would like the best for them, including not losing them to foxes or dogs. Learn how to cater for their needs:-food, housing, costs. What breed suits you? Commercial Vs Rare breeds. How to buy quality birds. The laws that affect you. Natural control of diseases and pests.
Preparing Your Spring Veggie Garden
Contact: North Ringwood Community House on 9876 3421
Tutor: John Jenkinson
Date: 25 July – 8 August 9.30am – 12.00pm
Cost: $30
This workshop will encourage you to create the environment to grow your own vegetables with the minimum usage of chemicals – organic cultivation is promoted. The workshop covers: what to sow, where and when, companion planting, maximising cropping, soil preparation and maintenance, composting, community gardens
Growing Vegetables and Herbs
Contact: The Pines Learning Centre on 9842 6726
Tutor: Chris Reed
Date: 29 Aug – 5 September 10.00am – 3.00pm
Cost: $80
This workshop will encourage you to create the environment to grow your own vegetables with the minimum usage of chemicals – organic cultivation is promoted. The workshop covers: what to sow, where and when, companion planting, maximising cropping, soil preparation and maintenance, composting, community gardens.
Compost and Worm Farming
Contact: Warrandyte Community House on 9844 1839
Contact: Glen Park Community Centre on 9294 7525
Tutor: Wendy Mather (Warrandyte)
Tutor: Cam Wilson (Glen Park Community Centre)
Date: 27 August 7.30 – 9.30pm (Warrandyte)
Date: 8 August 1.00pm – 3.00pm (Glen Park Community Centre)
Cost: $20 (Warrandyte) or $25 (Glen Park Community Centre)
That smelly pile of rotting stuff down the back corner of your garden isn’t compost, it’s just that, a smelly, rotting mess. Come and learn how to turn your kitchen scraps and garden waste into beautiful healthy compost, sweet smelling and full of all the nutrients and healthy little critters your plants love. It’s really simple once you know how and it’s a fantastic way of helping the environment.
Permaculture Garden Design Principles
Contact: Wonga Park Community House on 9722 1944
Tutor: Patrick O’Neil
Date: 29 July, 5 August 7.30 – 9.30pm
Cost: $40
Garden design using permaculture principles is a great way to achieve a more sustainable, healthy and productive garden. Learn ecological gardening techniques that can be applied to any garden situation for a vigorous and healthy garden. This workshop will also provide you with the opportunity to discuss your particular garden design requirements and questions.
Introduction to Permaculture
Contact: North Ringwood Community House on 9876 3421
Tutor: Patrick O’Neil
Date: 15 August, 22 August 9.30am – 12.30pm
Cost: $60
Permaculture ethics and design principles provide us with a way to negotiate the pressing issues of our time: the looming energy crisis, ecological destruction and issues around food and health.
Permaculture is a framework for landscape design, applicable to urban and broad-acre settings, that gives us healthy and sustainable gardens and livelihoods.
This introduction course will outline all the features of Permaculture design and hopefully encourage you to investigate permaculture further. Come along and see how you can use permaculture in all aspects of life.
