Council will host the fourth and final Edible Gardens - Sustainability and Self-Sufficiency Workshop on Saturday 5 June from 6 to 8pm online via Zoom.
Facilitated by Horticulturist Craig Castree, the workshop will bring together the knowledge gained throughout the Edible Gardens Webinars and help participants take their gardening skills to the next level through sustainable and self-sufficient practices.
The workshop will cover techniques for improving soil health in our gardens and the associative health benefits, innovative gardening methods to lowering heating and cooling expenses, strategies to decrease running costs of maintaining a garden, utilising battery-operated equipment charged from solar panels, how to produce chemically free staple foods, how to preserve what we grow for later use and how to harvest water.