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Sustainable Living Courses

FREE for Term 2, 2010
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Bookings essential
Email Council's Sustainability Education Officer at
fiona.campbell@randwick.nsw.gov.au
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FREE Green renters workshop - 1 session
This practical workshop follows a room by room tour through the average rental property looking at simple and cost effective ideas that will help make your property more energy efficient, sustainable and save you money. With plenty of visual examples, discussion and samples this workshop also looks at general lifestyle changes, ideas and advice for greening your life.


DATE: 1 x Wednesday 9 June 2010
TIME: 9.30am - 12.30pm
WHERE: Barrett House, 6 Barrett Place Randwick
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FREE Balcony garden workshop - 1 session
If you have only an apartment balcony or have only a small, paved courtyard to grow in, or if you want to learn more about growing plants in containers, this is the workshop for you. We will cover how to choose a container, how to prepare an organic potting mix, when to water and apply organic fertiliser, transplanting and what to grow in your container garden.


DATE: 1 x Wednesday 12 May 2010
TIME: 9.30am - 12.30pm
WHERE: Barrett House, 6 Barrett Place Randwick
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FREE Sustainable Gardening course - runs over 5 Saturday afternoons
Whether you are designing a new garden or maintaining an existing one this course gives simple, practical tips such as seed progation, potting up plants, building composts and worm farms, mulching gardens, using organic pest management strategies and being water wise in the garden. Watch your balcony garden, permaculture food garden, native or cottage garden thrive as you learn to mimic nature.


DATE: 5 x starting Saturday 8 May 2010
TIME: 1.00pm - 5.00pm
WHERE: Randwick Community Centre, 27 Munda Street  Randwick
(turn off Bundock St into Hendy Ave, then right into Marida St)
BRING: Sunscreen, hat, sturdy shoes and a pair of gloves
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Comments (3)

Please can you book me in to the 5xSat Sustainable Gardening course starting 8 May.

If this course is fully booked, please can you put me down for the next one! It sounds terrefic.

Thanks, Suzanne

Can you reserve a spot for me for the  - FREE Sustainable Gardening course - runs over 5 Saturday afternoons. It sounds great!

Best Reagrds

Louise

I had booked myself in for the 5 saturday sustainability workshops and have had family commitments that have prevented me from attending.  May I please attend the next series. Please email me as to the date of commencement and may I be placed on the list for the next course? Thank you in advance

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