Fawkner Farm School

Growing Farmers is excited to present our second 6-week Farm School at Fawkner Food Bowls on Wurundjeri Woi-wurrung Country!

Join us for an immersive and hands-on experience designed to build community and climate resilience and elevate your skills in growing warm-season produce. This program aims to empower the Fawkner and wider Merri-bek community to grow lots of food using ecological and biointensive growing methods. These skills will come in handy when growing within our communities or building and maintaining your own edible backyards.

No-prior experience is necessary!

Participants can book individual sessions or all six. 

Costing is sliding scale and self-assessed. Please pay what you can and consider paying-it-forward if you’re financially secure.

Spaces are limited to 20 adults.

Each session includes morning tea, coffee and fruit catered by locals from the Merri Food Hub. Final session will have a cooked lunch by the Merri Food Hub using Farm School produce!

Fawkner Farm School will be facilitated by people from within and connected to our communities 🌿

This program will include:

  • Building a row or garden bed
  • Soil and plant health
  • Minimum weeding practice
  • Best practice propagation
  • Direct seeding and transplanting seedlings
  • Sheet mulching and creating pathways
  • Growing flowers for beneficial bug habitats,
  • Harvest, washing and storage techniques,
  • Hot composting and worm farming
  • Installing and maintaining irrigation systems
  • Using a variety of market garden and farm hand tools
  • Designing accessible and intuitive garden systems.

Buy tickets

  • Saturday 14th September 9am-12pm: Welcome to the Garden!
  • Saturday 21st September 9am-12pm: Bed Preparation Break week
  • Saturday 5th October 9am - 12pm: Propagation, Sowing & Planting
  • Saturday 12th October 9am - 12pm: Irrigation Basics
  • Saturday 19th October 9am - 12pm: Soil & Plant Health
  • Saturday 26th October 9am - 12pm: Harvesting & Feasting

Contact

Growing Farmers
Jemma Stefanou, President, Growing Farmers
Email: info@growingfarmers.org.au

Further information

https://www.growingfarmers.org.au/

https://www.instagram.com/growing_farmers_au/