Courses

Join Michael Hewins, Milkwood Farm's market gardener for 2 days of knowledge and insights on how to grow truly awesome backyard vegies using organic permaculture techniques, and hands-on growing techniques with Costa Georgiadis from Gardening Australia.

Do you want to grow seriously great vegetables in your backyard this Spring? Are you finding that it's a little harder than you thought to get your beloved seeds from their packets all the way to a super, plentiful harvest?

• Vegetable garden design, planning, placement and retrofitting
  
• Creating healthy, nutrient dense garden soil using DIY techniques
• Raising great seedlings
  
• Planting techniques for different plant families
• Crop rotations and companion planting
• Backyard nutrient cycling strategies to ensure enough plant food
  
• Integrated Pest Management
  

Michael has a heap of experience in growing many types of annual vegetables in temperate and sub-tropical environments, and has particular enthusiasm and knowledge for managing and preventing pests and plant diseases with good garden management and biodiversity.

Costa can help you get activated about taking your organic veggie production from zero to hero, using easy and effective nutrient cycling and soil building techniques that complement Michael's years of experience with planting plans to ensure a bountiful harvest.

This class will be approximately half class time and half garden time, so arrive expecting to get your hands dirty! You will leave this course with a competent working knowledge of how grow seriously great vegies, as well as sample seeds and lots of course notes.

The majority of this course's content applies to year-round growing for the greater Sydney region, with additional notes and tricks for planting and growing great vegies in Spring.

Michael Hewins is an organic market gardener with a background in permaculture, organic agriculture and horticulture and has a wide knowledge of how to grow high quality, healthy food. He's run his own Community Supported Agriculture (CSA) scheme in the northern rivers of NSW and has a great working knowledge of organic vegetable growing in both temperate and subtropical environments.

Costa Georgiadis is an organic garden activator, permaculturalist and change maker with a background in landscape design. He's also an acclaimed, nation-wide advocate for permaculture, real food, school garden schemes and all things green and growing, and has tirelessly contributed to countless backyard, school and community gardening initiatives.

Costa is also the host of Gardening Australia on ABC TV. Costa's website.