The course builds on the information presented in the three components of the Introduction to Market Gardening course. Participants will be guided through the process of developing a planting, maintenance and harvesting schedule and keeping records for their own garden for the following twelve months. Information on germination and growing temperatures, time to maturity and …
Due to the August snap COVID-19 Lockdown in the ACT, this session has been postponed until Sunday 19 September 2021. We are welcoming some new teachers to our Educational Courses from this month. Jarrod and Aminya have been running their two permaculture farms in Far East Gippsland, growing fruits, nuts and vegetables and keeping bees, …
Propagation 101 – Vegetables and flowers – rescheduled to 19 September 2021 Read More »
Have you got a compost heap or been too afraid to try? Does your compost heap work as it should? Is it a dry pile of sticks or a slimy patch of stinky rotting things? Then this is the session for you. There are many ways of composting, and different ways produce different products, …
Do you look lovingly through the seed catalogues each winter and dream of what may be? Have you noticed that sometimes your plants aren’t all able to fit or that where you want to put your tomatoes, the broadbeans are still growing? Then this is the session for you. This session introduces you to …
Join us at Canberra City Farm learning leatherwork, a heritage skill now entering into a technological renaissance. In this four hour workshop you will make a personalised hand-sized bag out of sustainable kangaroo leather. @MaidofOldeWork is focused on giving you the confidence and knowledge of basic leatherwork using renewable resources. Making personal items from scratch …
After more than two years of putting off in-person events at the Farm, we are very excited to invite you to our upcoming Winter Solstice Soirée! Join us for a casual get-together of winter-themed festivities including warming fires, toasted marshmallows, mulled wine, woodfire pizza, games and entertainment. When: Sunday 26 June 2022, 12:00 – 3:00 …
Is your garden bursting with beans? Do you have tons of tomatoes or avalanches of apples? Join Fiona Tito Wheatland as she takes you through a variety of historically relevant preserving practices. Why they were needed and are they still relevant today? Fiona will talk about bottling, making jams and pickles, drying and fermenting and …
Seed saving is for everyone - it’s easy, economical and empowering! Learn how to save seeds from your herb and veggie garden.
Join us at Canberra City Farm this Saturday for an information session about our Pop Up Garlic Farmer program. Learn about the ins and outs of growing garlic and how you can participate in our program. Our Program Coordinator Roberta will be there to answer all your questions. The event runs from 3-4 pm, see …
As well as our usual convivial atmosphere and free pizza at our March Monthly Mingle, we are pleased to announce that Fiona Buining, recipient of a 2020 Churchill Fellowship, will share stories of hope and inspiration and her vision for what urban farm training could look like in Canberra. Fiona was awarded a Churchill Fellowship …
Monthly Mingle with Fiona Buining of Ainslie Urban Farm Read More »
Did you know that in Australia, one tonne of waste per person ends up in Landfill every year? A large component of household waste is organic and could be recycled into an organic fertiliser using composting or worm farms. Cid Riley from Global worming will be demonstrating how to set up a worm farm and …
Our May Monthly Mingle will feature guest speakers from the University of Canberra's Future of Food in the Canberra Region research group. They will discuss their work related to local food-system transformation and the necessary role of diverse community-based economies. Identifying and attending to gaps in existing data have a been a key focus of the …
