Series of Practical Self-sufficiency skills for families
Our focus is on young generation to educate, inspire and empower them to live more sustainably. Gaining these practical self-sufficiency skills for life is a must.
Morning program for homeschooling families
- Tour around the garden
- Practical hands-on experience
- Feeding animals
- Show and tell display table
- Screening of Spurtopia documentary
- Tasting of home produce
- Craft corner
- Practical tips, ideas & inspiration for everyone
Tour around garden:
- Food production: Kitchen garden, herb spiral, energizing mandala pyramid, orchard and food forest
- Pizza oven (made in 5 minutes) & Smoker
- Benefits of various medicinal herbs and edible weeds
- Feeding chickens and worms
- Tasting and smelling different greens, herbs, fruit and honey
Practical hands-on experience: Will talk and collect garden produce to make salad, medicinal herbal tea, colourful potions and you will make and eat pizza baked in a wood fired oven. You will make bean sprout farm to take home.
Tour around garden:
- Different types of pollinators
- Native bees and their role in backyardhoney bees: types, life cycle, duties in a hive seeing bee hives
- How to start beekeeping
- Creating an ecosystem: Bees as a part of ecosystem
- Feeding chickens and worms
- Tasting and smelling different honey types, pollen, wax
Practical hands-on experience: Will talk about wax and how bees make it. You will make a food wax wrap to take home.
Tour around garden:
- Creating an ecosystem: Permaculture principles in practice
- Food production: Kitchen garden, herb spiral, energizing mandala pyramid orchard and food forest
- Tasting and smelling different greens, herbs and fruit
- Composting – making soil
- Different types of pollinators
- Farm animals: chickens ( incl. feeding them), worms, bees
Practical hands-on experience: Will talk about soil and plants you will harvest seeds & make and plant a wicking pot to take home.
Tour around garden:
- Farm animals: chickens, guinea fowls, worms, bees
- Feeding chickens and worms
- Different types of pollinators
- DIY Chicken water & grain feeder, maggot farm, worm farm & tower
- Creating an ecosystem: Animals as a part of ecosystem
- Tasting and smelling different honey types, pollen, was and eggs
Practical hands-on experience: Will talk about a role of animals in a backyard. We will make a worm farm from recycled materials. You will make a bugs hotel to take home.