ALL OF OUR PRODUCTS ARE CAREFULLY CRAFTED ON OUR FARM IN MOOLOO
Please note our blends and composts can vary with the seasons, as they are made on the farm, embraced by the elements.
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Two day dive into Self Sufficiency & Food production Course | 26&27 Febuary 2022
Your teacher for the course - Kane is the owner of Red Soil Organics and a farmer for the last 7 years, living self sufficiently producing food for family & friends, while also consulting and installing systems accross queensland. With backgrounds in certified organic market garden production, seed breeding, soil science and landscape rehabilitation. Kane has been working the last 6 years full time studying and improving his systems of food production incorporating Permaculture, no-till natural farming, market gardening, traditional bulk cropping, agroforestry & syntropics, with the least amount of input of time possible. Kane is always challenging the conventional paradigms and shows us a different way through understanding the deep connections and relationships of plant, animal, soil, planet & human.
This is a two day hands on practical course, focused on fertility systems, and then building a self sufficient, food security plot that produces fruits, nuts, veg, herbs, bulk storage crops, grains & its own mulch, insect control, disease suppression, micro climate and living shade house. We will be learning while doing - the basic understanding of successional vegetable production, and whole system design, really dialling in on the reality of producing food for your self, and systematising it in a way that you have continuous supply. Everything from initial land conversion to harvesting & replanting will be covered as we work through the process together.
We hope to equip you with the necessary skills to understand the secrets of nature & the simplicity of her blueprint. Eliminating the strenuous mindset of " do i need to put this on, or put that on, do i need to check this, or check that, whats this insect"
Our farm is situated in Mooloo just outside of the Mary Valley, high up in the pie creek watershed on volcanic soil in cattle country.
Come and learn how we healed the past degeneration and stimulated it to revive it's true essence as a powerful ancient machine, through food production, regenerative grazing, pigs, chickens, covercrops and strategic fallows all while producing food for our family on minimal input.
Our workshop will be catered with paddock to plate meals crafted from our own farm raised pork, beef and vegetables grown on site.
Some of the things you will learn:
The art of hot compost
How to work with the moons rhythms and plan your work accordingly
How to read the landscape, the soil and the plants to better understand how to make decisions about what steps you will have to take to heal your land and kick it into
hyperdrive
How to work with covercrops, designing them, sowing them, cutting them down and feeding them back in, planting food crops over top of them
How to work with support trees, design them into your system, chop them and correctly
process them
How to integrate pigs or other small animals into your systems for meat production and soil preparation
Design and mark out a market garden/home production from scratch, build it from scratch using hand tools (easily done with machinery, but using your senses we will all learn soil characteristics, textures, aromas, biology and signs), directly into untouched earth
Preparing the soil with minimal tillage, reading soil structure & correctly amending
Building terraces, planting agroforestry support rows with orchard crops + field mushrooms and planting a high density biodynamic vegetable production that produces its own microclimate, mulch, fertiliser and insect/disease control
DIY seed raising mixes, planting seeds and seedlings
We will all open up the way we see the land and plants, as one connected system, as we walk around the farm, immersing & calibrating our senses for two full days.
There is going to be plenty of time for Q&A sessions, and to take things slow as we unravel it all, in a relaxed open learning environment
Most importantly you will learn more about growing food without all the "inputs" the conventional or organic industry use. In Biodynamics we see the farm as one living breathing self sustaining organism, and look to produce our inputs from the farm itself.