Today we made the mud bricks and constructed the pizza oven. First the clay mix was watered, and mixed to a plasticine consistency, in barrows. The base had been prepared yesterday, by some dedicated volunteers… Then came the fun part, mixing the clay with straw – do you wear boots or go barefoot? Then the …
When Gympie Community Garden was located at Cooinda Aged Care, members held a workshop to build a pizza oven. It pumped out huge numbers of pizzas that someone called ‘the best pizzas ever’. There was a lot of pizza sharing going on. The community garden had to leave Cooinda and find another home. The oven …
Wicked (pronounced “wikt”) garden beds are an increasingly popular way of growing vegetables and herbs. They are self-contained raised beds with built-in water reservoirs that supply water to plants from the bottom up. This changes how, and how much, you need to water. Because they are self-watering (apart from a tiny input from you), they …
Saturday 28 May – 8.30am to 12pm – Wicked garden bed workshop Read More »
The worm farm workshop we had on Saturday 28 August was a great success, especially in terms of the stuff we learned about worms. Did you know you could feed worms your old work boots if you remove the rubber and elastic? They will eat them. Did you know you could feed worms snakes and …
Bill White’s knowledge about worms and worm farms Read More »
Vermicomposting, or worm farming, is easy once you know how! It takes around half the time of conventional composting, and produces vermicast, or ‘black gold’, for your garden. This increases nutrients in your soil and encourages microbial life, and reduces the need for fertilisers and pesticides. Black gold improves water retention and contains plant enzymes …
Saturday 28 August 9am to 12pm – Learn how to build your own worm farm Read More »
We are taking bookings for our next workshop on Saturday 13 March, at 8.30am. Our plan is to work on constructing a gabion wall, which will be the home to a variety of herbs and plants. To book click here ‘Gabion’ means ‘cage’ in Italian, as the wall is constructed of connecting cages that are …
