SOLD OUT Foodforest Tour and Workshop – In-Person Saturday 29 January 10.30am

*Both tours have now sold out, thank you for all your interest! For those keen to join the waitlist, please send us a message on our contact form. We may run an additional February tour if there is enough interest.*

For the first time ever, we are running in-person Workshops and Tours of our Foodforest! Strictly limited numbers per Workshop and Tour.

Come tour a productive suburban farm and walk away brimming with ideas and inspiration. Our Foodforest has been featured on TV on ABC’s Gardening Australia and in Organic Gardener Magazine. 

Each participant will receive:

• 1.5 hour in-depth Workshop and Tour of our Foodforest – the content of this Workshop will be tailored to the participants’ interests and needs via a questionnaire that is sent out beforehand
• a packet of heirloom seed
• a bag of coffee husks to help fast-track your food forest journey
• opportunities to get hands-on to feel, smell and taste plants in our food forest
• detailed notes emailed to you after the session

What does the tour cover?

✔️ In-depth tour of our Foodforest. The workshop will cover all our different styles of growing (intensive raised beds, Vegepod, in-ground beds), our productive pond which provides us with food and free fertiliser, Greenhouse, deep litter chicken run, Worm farm & Composting system. Featuring over 80 varieties of fruit and countless heirloom veggies. For more information about us, please check out the About us page and our Youtube Channel.

✔️ You will learn how to make most of your space, deal with shade, poor soil and pests, and garden with sustainable and free materials. You will learn about many interesting and unusual edibles that are ultra productive in Melbourne’s climate. You will see our vertical gardening in action, and learn many clever tips and tricks. We aim to garden as sustainably as possible and in accordance with permaculture principles.

✔️ Small group tours and you’ll have the opportunity to ask us all your questions and see things first-hand. I will also be sending a questionnaire out to you beforehand and the session will be tailored to the needs & interests of the participants

✔️ Free packet of heirloom seeds and bag of coffee husks for all participants

✔️ There will be limited numbers of rare plants available for purchase on the day. Seeds and products available on our Shop can be collected on the day with no shipping fee (Orders must be completed at least 3 days before the workshop).

When? This ticket is for an in-person tour at 10:30am to 12 noon, Saturday, 29 January 2022. As it’s an outdoor event, we will go ahead if there’s light rain. If unsafe weather is forecast, the event will be cancelled and postponed to the next day or week. If you’re unable to make the rescheduled tour, we will offer you a refund or credit to use for future events, seeds or products on our website

Where? Our food forest is in the inner-eastern suburbs in Melbourne. Address and further details will be forwarded to participants a week before the event.