Growing Great Veggies (SOLD OUT)
Join local urban farmer Steven Hoepfner and backyard grower Sam Ryan, for a full day and a half to learn how to get your garden flourishing year round.
Learn about:
- site selection
- soil fertility and advanced soil preparation
- organic pest management
- tool selection and use
- in ground and above ground options
- what to plant when
- propagation techniques
This course is suited to those that already have some gardening experience and are looking to take things to the next level!
The course runs for a FULL day in November (Sun 7 Nov 2021), with a follow up half day session six months later (Sun 8 May 2022).
Full day: Sunday 7 November 2021 | 9am - 5pm
Includes 'what to plant' chart, course notes and tea and coffee.
BYO lunch, snacks and drink bottle.
Follow up half day: Sunday 8 May 2022 | 9am - 1pm
Bower Cottages Community Centre, 200 Bower Road, Semaphore Park
Steven Hoepfner is passionate about ecology, growing food and re-localising food production. He began growing veggies by accident in his Queensland backyard in 2006 and has been hooked on fresh, tasty and wholesome home-grown produce ever since. Steven has been employed in Ireland growing veggies in a kitchen garden for a local restaurant, managed a large market garden and orchard in the Adelaide Hills and now runs Wagtail Urban Farm in Mitchell Park. Steven also offers his services in the Adelaide metropolitan area as an edible landscape and local native gardener through his own business wagtailurbanfarms.com.au. When not gardening, Steven can be found in the wild foraging for tasty and nutritious morsels to add to his dinner plate.
Sam Ryan is an experienced backyard grower and educator. He started gardening on deep loam in the UK where he only watered the garden 6 times in 2 years! He then returned to Adelaide and grew under heavy shade on light sand at Seacliff, and now grows all his household veggies on clay loam in Aldinga from a garden that is just 3 years old. He and his partner founded the Village Allotment Co-op – a type of community garden where each member has 25 square metres of market-garden style rows, which can produce enough veggies to eat something every day. Sam shares his gardening knowledge and sustainable living skills through Folk of All Trades, and when he’s not gardening, does regenerative farming and revegetation at a property in Kuitpo.
Please note that due to COVID restrictions the following will apply:
- numbers are limited and everyone MUST book to attend
- participants are required to maintain social distancing of 1.5m
- masks are required when indoors and recommended outdoors when you are unable to physically distance.
- everyone must check in on arrival (via QR code)
- please stay away if you are unwell
This event is supported by the Port Environment Centre, Bower Cottages Community Centre (City of Charles Sturt), City of Port Adelaide Enfield and Green Adelaide.
Port Environment Centre is seeded by Green Adelaide.
Please note that attendee information may be used for follow up evaluation, in order to assess the longer term impacts of our events. Follow up contact may be made (in the form of a survey) but participation in any evaluation is optional.
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