Showing posts with label seed saving. Show all posts
Showing posts with label seed saving. Show all posts

Wednesday, August 12, 2015

Spring 2015 Classes


Intro to Self-Sufficiency: Spring                           Sat 5  Sept 

Want to get back to basics and start learning self sufficiency? Don't know where to start? This workshop is for you. Learn about what you can achieve doing self-sufficiency on a budget and what is best done in spring. Cost $50   Time: 10am-3pm

Beginners Organic Vegetable Gardening              Sat 26 Sept   

Always wanted to grow veggies but not sure how.? Join Gavin in the veggie patch on our farm where he will share with you his 45 years of gardening know-how on growing great veggies Cost $35 , Time 1-4pm (ongoing Saturday classes once a month).

Wild Herb Walk and Medicine Making                Sat 10 Oct

Walk around the farm with Community Herbalist Lisa McAndrew, where she will show you how to identify wild herbs and how they can help you heal. Make and take home a bottle of wild medicine from these plants. Cost $25 Time: 1-3pm (ongoing Saturday classes once per month).

Saving Our Food Plant Biodiversity                        Sat 7 Nov 

Join Master Seed Saver Gavin Edwards as he explains the threats to our heritage and heirloom food plants, Find out about the work of our Food Plant Sanctuary and learn about how and why biodiversity is essential to sustainable food growing.  Cost: $25, Time: 1-3pm.

Self Sufficiency learn by doing                              Sept - May

Ongoing instruction in self-sufficiency and organic growing are offered for people who would like to learn by doing as we run our smallholding. (Cost per day is $25 for 3 hours learning plus 2 hours labour. Please notify us of the dates that you would like to attend. We will teach you what we are doing on our farm at the time.

To RSVP please email ghfarmtas@gmail.com and state which workshop you will attend.
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Saturday, March 21, 2015

Good Heart Farm Internships



 Good Heart Farm

Internships 2015
Fantastic Learning Opportunity!

We have intern positions available on our farm for the autumn season.

We are looking for genuine, enthusiastic and creative people who are interested in learning about self-sufficiency and organic farming.

Be on the leading edge of knowledge, experience living on an organic farm and learn about the heart of self-sufficiency by joining us on our farm.

Good Heart Farm is located in the North West of Tasmania, on the edge of the Tarkine Wilderness.


We run the Good Heart School of Self-Sufficiency and Lapoinya Food Plant Sanctuary on our farm.  We are committed to teaching, promoting and preserving the Art of Self-Sufficiency as well as Saving Food Plant Biodiversity for the future.

Internships are for 6 to 8 weeks, starting March 2015. Accommodation is provided.
The internship is an exchange of our teaching for your help with work on the farm. This is a unique experience!  

Topics that you will learn about during your time with us include:

Organic Food Growing (including Organic vegetables, herbs, nuts, raising animals for meat and Organic Orcharding)   Herb Lore    Foraging & Wildcrafting   Food Preserving    Traditional Cooking    Building    Seed Saving   Recycling    Ethics and Philosophy of Self- Sufficiency    Saving Food Plant Biodiversity    Upcycling   Appropriate Technology   Traditional Arts and Crafts...  and more.

Come and join us and help us change the world!