QLD GARDEN EXPO

FRIDAY - 8 JULY

9am ‘Garden Tour’

9.15 – 10.15  KITCHEN GARDEN WORKSHOP
Q & A with Jerry Coleby-Williams

10:15 – 11 KITCHEN GARDEN STAGE
Interesting Ways of Cooking with Herbs
Sandra Nanka from Mudbrick Cottage Herb Farm & Barbara Wickes

11am ‘Garden Tour’ of the ‘Children’s Garden’

11.15 – 11.45 KITCHEN GARDEN WORKSHOP
Composting Made Easy
Create healthy soil, save money, grow delicious food and reduce landfill
Sonya Wallace will show you how – its easy!

11.45 – 12.30 KITCHEN GARDEN STAGE
Cottage Gardening in the subtropics
Carol Kerkin

12.30 ‘Garden Tour’

12.45 – 1.15  KITCHEN GARDEN WORKSHOP
From Little things Big Things Grow
Rosina Buckman

1.15 – 2  KITCHEN GARDEN STAGE
Introduction to Permaculture
An introduction to the principles and practice of permaculture. How others are working toward a sustainable, positive, and productive future
With permaculture teacher Sonya Wallace

2pm ‘Garden Tour’

2.15 – 2.45  KITCHEN GARDEN WORKSHOP
Gardening in Small Spaces & Balcony Gardens with Leonie Shanahan
Eat your Garden whether on a balcony or in a small space we have ideas to get you eating the freshest food and to save you money.  It could be an old pot, polystyrene box, a bathtub or the latest tank garden, we will bring all these ideas alive with edible food.
Leonie Shanahan

3pm – 3.45 KITCHEN GARDEN STAGE
Confessions of an Organic Gardener – Save time and money when gardening
 Phil Ryan
3.45 ‘Garden Tour’




SATURDAY – 9TH JULY

9am ‘Garden Tour’

9.30 – 10.15 KITCHEN GARDEN STAGE
Costa  From SBS Costa's Garden Odessey

10.15-10.45 KITCHEN GARDEN WORKSHOP
Start a Worm Farm
How to set up and run a worm farm. Turn kitchen scraps into rich fertiliser for your vegie garden.
Sonya Wallace

10.45  ‘Garden Tour’

11 – 11.45 KITCHEN GARDEN STAGE
Interesting Ways of Cooking with Herbs
Sandra Nanka from Mudbrick Cottage Herb Farm & Barb Wickes

11.45 – 12.15 KITCHEN GARDEN WORKSHOP
No Dig Gardening.  No matter what type of soil you have, the No Dig method will provide you with the healthiest way to grow food.  Leonie Shanahan’s successful method of No Dig gardening will have your veggies bursting out of the garden within weeks.

12.30 – 1.15 KITCHEN GARDEN STAGE
Aquaponics –Gardening for the Future with Murray Hallam

1.15 – 1.45 KITCHEN GARDEN WORKSHOP
Basic Planting of Vegies
Gary Hands

1.45 ‘Garden Tour’ of ‘Children’s Garden’ with Leonie Shanahan

2 – 2.30 KITCHEN GARDEN STAGE
Welcome to the Wonderful World of Herbs and Weeds
Dee Humphreys

2:45 – 3.15 KITCHEN GARDEN WORKSHOP
Composting Made Easy
Create healthy soil, save money, grow delicious food and reduce landfill
Sonya Wallace will show you how – its easy!

3.30 ‘Garden Tour’




SUNDAY – 10th JULY

9.15am ‘Garden Tour’

9.45 – 10.45 KITCHEN GARDEN STAGE
How to Grow and Use Food Plants from the Subtropics
Robyn Ford & Linda Mahony

10.45am ‘Garden Tour’ with Rosina Buckman

11.00 – 11.30 KITCHEN GARDEN WORKSHOP
Start a Worm Farm
How to set up and run a worm farm. Turn kitchen scraps into rich fertiliser for your vegie garden.
Sonya Wallace

11.30 ‘Garden Tour’ of ‘Children’s Garden’ with Leonie Shanahan

12  – 12.30 KITCHEN GARDEN STAGE
Medicinal use of herbs
Sandra Nanka from Mudbrick Cottage Herb Farm

12.45 – 1.30 KITCHEN GARDEN WORKSHOP
Costa From SBS Costa's Garden Odessey

1.45 – 2.30  KITCHEN GARDEN STAGE
'Permaculture design- zone planning the gardens.'
Elisabeth Fekonia


2.30 -3.15 KITCHEN GARDEN STAGE
What is the Right Chook for you?
Ingrid Dimmock from City Chicks

3.15pm ‘Garden Tour’