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Backyard Food Sovereignty Workshop
Backyard Food Sovereignty Workshop
This weekend workshop will kick-start your journey to regenerative living, teaching you how to grow abundant, resilient food gardens and how to build efficient closed-loop (composting) systems at home.
Learn how to build food security and landscape resilience
You’ll learn how to design resilient systems, produce organic food using regenerative techniques in both a kitchen garden & a food forest setting, and how to turn waste into a valuable resource through different types of home composting systems.
These skills will not only give you food & resources, but will cut your household costs as you spend less on food and garden inputs.
This course is meant for those who want to build food security and landscape resilience in the face of climate and political adversity.
It is for those who want to understand how to have a reciprocal relationship with the land they’re on, becoming caretakers and also receivers of the abundance the land provides.
Rural, semi-urban and urban
Our content can be applied to rural, semi-urban and urban blocks.
All principles are able to be altered to suit your lifestyle.
What you’ll learn:
- Efficient design for high-yield, resilient edible landscapes
- Building a kitchen garden from scratch
- Polycultures, guilds, succession planting, seasonal planning
- Integrated pest management
- Home composting: worm farm, chickens, hot/cold composting
- Food forest design and management – stacking in time and space
- Nutrient cycling using household waste and garden waste
- Land regeneration & mushroom production
- How to plan & phase a backyard project in your home immediately
Schedule:
Day 1
Foundations & design: site assessment, design techniques (zones, sectors), elements & placement.
Lunch – Home cooked meal with home grown ingredients.
Building a kitchen garden
How to incorporate chickens
Day 2
Nutrient Cycling – compost, fertilisers and manures.
Build a worm farm
Application of homemade fertilisers.
Food forest walk and talk
Lunch – Home cooked meal with home grown ingredients.
Agroforestry practical – hands on chop and drop session.
Outdoor fungi production practical.
What to bring:
Pen & notepad, sun protection, water bottle, enclosed shoes & pruning tools.
We’ll provide: Plenty of tools, handouts, Catered lunch.
When & Where
29th & 30th of August 2026
9am – 5pm
Location: Noosa Forest Retreat, Noosa Hinterland, Sunshine Coast.
Capacity: Max 20 ppl with limited tickets available.
Cost: $385
More info and online booking:
Book your ticket here:
https://events.humanitix.com/backyard-food-sovereignty-workshop-x6p9rsqv
Hand to Earth Website:
Contacts:
Liv and Taranar:
Liv – 0423249449
Taranar – 0413240110