Join Leonie Shanahan on Sunday 20th July, at 10.00am – 12 noon, at
the Caboulture Hub for her workshop: growing food on a budget.
Leonie will guide you to learn:
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Celebrate Your Living Backyard with this exciting one day event on
Saturday 15 June. The forum presents eight inspiring presentations
of a sustainable future for your own backyard. Growing your own is
fresher, taste delicious and saves on food...
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April 19th. The Perennial Poppies Group ; Garden tour Verridale.
Speaking about healthy soils, healthy food, healthy you.
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Saturday 27th April Harvest, Garden & Create a feast At Leonie
Property at Cooroibah Local chef Max Porter from Native Sun Cuisine
is teaming up with Leonie to do a gardening and cooking workshop.
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May 5th Woodford Folk Festival Tree Festival, workshops for kids on
making a worm farm to take home - About The Woodford Folk Festival
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25th May Maroochy/Yandina Community Garden - How to step up a No
Dig GardenIt doesn’t matter what type of soil you have, you can set
up a No Dig Garden and be planting in 2 weeks and harvest in weeks.
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SOWING SEEDS for the future: The early years and beyond
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Gosford and Newcastle Permaculture Groups - I loved my time in NSW,
I must confess its a state I haven’t seen a lot of, so getting the
train from Sydney to Gosford then onto Newcastle was an unexpected
treat.
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Check out our gallery below of pictures from the expo!
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Leonie was a recent guest speaker at our monthly Queensland Herb
Society meeting. Speaking on the topic of “Growing Health – Edible
School Gardens and the importance of nutrient rich food for
children (and adults)”
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Heartland gardening workshop opens a can of worms - Even cane toads
have uses in the gardening practices of Leonie Shanahan and people
who attend her sustainable gardening workshop during the Blackall
Heartland Festival will find out all about...
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The power for change- using an ecological foot-print tool: Julie
and Lyndal will jointly present some recent research which
investigated the use of an ecological footprint tool with
preservice early childhood teachers. The students responses...
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Even though it was a muddy affair in 2010, The kids really enjoyed
stomping around our garden in their gum boots, feeding the chickens
and the worms, and most importantly being instrumental in creating
their own permaculture village. Check out...
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Australasian Permaculture Convergence - I am delighted to have been
invited to speak at Australasian Permaculture Convergence in
Kuranda, Cairns, in September 2010. Please visit the click on the
below graphic for full details and informatio...
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SEE ME AT SPEAKERS CORNER - If you happen to be in Sydney in
August, you may like to attend the 2010 Organic Expo & Green
Show. I will be participating in Speakers Corner and am thoroughly
looking forward to it.
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SEE ME AT THE KITCHEN GARDEN AREA - It is nearly that time of year
again, and of course the Giant Kitchen Garden will be a big draw
for the regular lovers of the Queensland Home Garden Expo.
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2009 Workshops presented by Leonie Shanahan - No Dig Vegetable
Garden, The concept was originally introduced by Edna Walling back
in early 1900's and she still remains the legend in this field.
Leonie has successfully set up 12 edible school...
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GROWING ON SAND, SMALL PLACE & SMALL PEOPLE - Growing on sand
is one fo the most difficult mediums to grow on. Leonie over the
last 9 years has been experimenting with various methods and now
grows a thriving vegetable garden. Leonie will sha...
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Compost & Worm Farms Workshop - Do you want to know how to make
good compost? Does your current compost smell? Leonie will
demonstrate how to turn your food scraps into quality compost and
answer any questions you may have.
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