Our goal is to assist urban gardeners  to cultivate healthy food whilst caring for the earth with bio-organic methods; biodynamic, organic and permaculture.

Backyard Sustainability Summer School

An opportunity get all the skills and knowledge you need to cultivate an organic garden for sustainable self-sufficiency.

Dates: Five consecutive Sundays; 23rd October untill 20th November 2011

Time: 10am - 4.30pm

Venue: Glenhaven, North-West Sydney, Australia (private home)

Tutor: Eileen Kaufman

Cost: $350 entire 5 day course or attend selected days for only $80/day

Sustainability essentials covered in this hands on course:

1. Basics of getting a vegetable garden started, including DIY plant propagating

2. Backyard permaculture- ultimate system for sustainability including backyard chickens

3. Seed saving

4. Backyard carbon gardening - CO2 sequestration via soil life enhancement

5. Organic pest and disease control

Backyard Sustainability Summer School Course Outline