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The Food Forest took the honours for the Barossa Regional Food Award last week in a glittering ceremony at Chateau Tanunda. The pint-sized permaculture property near Gawler was up against national icons such as Maggie Beer Products but the unique on-site processing of pistachios, the complete recycling of of green by-products as compost to go back into the pistachio growing cycle and the fully audited organic status of the business attracted the judges.
Annemarie and Graham Brookman had put huge...
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See a fully functioning eco home built from straw-bales, a home garden that produces all the vegetables a family can eat, organically managed orchards in full bloom and the incredible transformation of a stretch of the Gawler River that has been taken back from invasive plants like boxthorn and transformed returned to indigenous habitat.
An Open Day at the award-winning Food Forest farm and learning centre on Sunday August 31 provides a morning session on the design and construction of sustain...
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This is an inspirational guide to individuals, groups, schools and organisations that want to repair our rivers and give people access to beautiful and dynamic natural environments along them.
It is an empowering and educational video showing how a small group of landholders decided to repair their stretch of the Gawler River in South Australia, returning it from a rabbit infested thicket of African boxthorn and prickly pear to the diverse, beautiful and productive indigenous ecosystem that exis...
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This inspiring and engaging movie and its associated info documents show how to create a successful farmers market for customers, stallholders and staff. Drafting a durable constitution, devising a positive and realistic business plan, assembling a skilled and committed board and engaging with the community are all important parts of this educational package.
Hundreds of farmers markets have sprung up around Australia in the last five years and in this movie South Australia's largest and longest...
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Have a listen to some of the interviews we've done with Radio National recently at: foodforest.com.au/about-us/the-food-forest-speaks
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The Course
This 2-day intensive workshop held at The Food Forest will present you with an opportunity to assess the possibilities for strawbale building in your life, whether you wish to build your own home, construct a garden wall or chook shed or just decide if strawbale is the right medium for your project.
You will learn through lectures, practical activities (building and rendering a straw bale wall), case studies, slides and inspection of strawbale structures at Th...
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Bookings via Humanitix - $75pp + booking fee
Half-day workshop.
The Chook is the world's original recycler and pest controller.
In this half-day workshop, we will share with you the basics of poultry husbandry. We will look at its housing, breed characteristics, supplementary feeding, keeping hens out of the lettuces and foxes out of the hens, managing pests and diseases in free-range flocks, rearing your own replacements, as well as integrating chickens and geese in garden and orchard manageme...
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Adelaide families now have the opportunity buy fresh food directly from producers from all over SA at the Adelaide Showground Farmers Market. The 20,000 strong crowd that turned up for the farmers market which formed the centrepiece of the 'Go Organic Festival' in September in 2005 encouraged the Royal Agricultural and Horticultural Society (RAHS) to back the foundation of a permanent farmers market by a not-for-profit community organisation. The market opened on October 1st 2006 with a massive...
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Bookings via Humanitix - $22pp + booking fee
Morning Tour10am sharp – 1pm
Please arrive at 9.45am to register, as this is a sequential, guided program that starts at 10am.
Afternoon Tour2pm sharp - 5pm
Please arrive at 1.45pm to register, as this is a sequential guided program, starting at 2pm.
This guided tour takes you along the Gawler River, where it cuts its way through the Adelaide Plains creating cliffs, flooded flats, red gum forests and waterholes.
You’ll learn about the biodiver...
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Bookings via Humanitix - $75pp + booking fee
Half day workshop.
Growing your own high quality organic vegetables is not difficult once you do a bit of planning and understand the ecology of the garden.
This workshop will show you techniques for creating and managing a productive garden, whatever the size. We will share with you how to design, plan, create resilient and productive systems. The format will be a combination of PowerPoint presentations, demonstrations and actual visits to the veget...
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