Category: Events

Events, News, Permablitz

Introducing Backyard Bounty

Barry Gibson

What is it?
Backyard Bounty is a year-long project aimed at building community resilience through local food production and sharing.

When will it run?
The project will run from June 2026 – June 2027 allowing us to run events focussing on all seasons

How are we going to achieve this?
There will three main areas to encourage local food production in local backyards:

  • Run a series of low-cost workshops in specialist skill areas that are important to successful home and local food production (e.g. introduction to vegetable gardening, setting up a home orchard, growing food on small plots, grafting, pruning, compost making, keeping chickens)
  • Coordinating series of food garden open days by local experts to show the diversity of ideas for food production in a backyard context, these would focus on growing healthy nutrient dense food
  • Run a series of Permablitzes to facilitate community working bees to 'make over' home gardens for maximum food production based on permaculture design principles

Register here to be notified of upcoming events.

Events

Wicking Bed Setup Workshop

Barry Gibson

We had an amazing first Build it with Barry workshop where participants learnt about the basics of wicking beds and help Barry set some wicking beds up in his glasshouse.

These were IBC wicking beds, and we added metal cladding to make them beautiful and protect the plastic from breaking down in the sun. Each Wicking bed includes a worm compost tube in the centre to allow in bed composting.

The beds will serve a number of purposes including:

  • Obtain a yield - Produce fruit and vegetables earlier and later in the season
  • Act as a heat sink - with their water reservoir the beds should help to even out the temperature extremes in the glass house
  • Recycle waste and nutrients – with the worm bins in the centre of each bed it is expected that these beds will be able to recycle their nutrients in place, small weeds and trimmings will be able to placed directly into the bins
Events

Events

Barry Gibson

We have some amazing events coming up, with more being added in the near future including our Introduction to Permaculture 1-day course.

Permies at the Pub

Every 4th Thursday of the month from 6 pm. Most people have a meal, but that's not essential, you can just drop in for a drink and a chat. It's a great way to check us out without committing to anything 😉  As we need to book a table, please let us know via the Facebook reminder for the event, or email to info@ballaratpermacultureguild.org if you'd like to attend.

Events, PDC, Permaculture courses

Ballarat Permaculture Guild Permaculture Design Course 2024

Barry Gibson

We are thrilled to announce dates and information for next years Ballarat Permaculture Course. If you’re interested in knowing more, we are offering two information sessions on September 10th (2pm – 3:30pm) & October 7th (10:30am – 12pm) at 42A Dyte Pde, Ballarat East (Uniting).

Full course details can be found at: Permaculture Design Course – Ballarat Permaculture Guild

Events, Permablitz

Invermay Permablitz

Barry Gibson

What an amazing Blitz!!

Thanks to the attendees for such a great day. Everyone absolutely smashed it and we tore through the ambitious to do list in between drizzle, great chats, snacks and goat visits.

Also a big thank you to Bill Stubbs for sharing his plant and landscaping knowledge and the seedlings used on the day.

The BPG committee are looking for hosts, so if you could do with a few extra hands in your garden, send an email or fill in the expression of interest form on the website:

Host a Permablitz