Sustainability Weekend

Join us at Eden Gardens to connect with like-minded people and organisations covering local and global sustainability issues… and be better gardeners as a result.

Listen to experts cover topics such as creating a backyard oasis for wildlife, how to design a resilient garden for today’s changing climate, and how to grow your own produce successfully in small spaces.

Discover artisans and bespoke producers, from woven goods suitable for vegans to local honey. You can even watch a spinning demonstration using natural fibres from hemp, bamboo and banana leaves.

Engage in our workshop series. Learn how to make your own fermented drinks and kraut, whip up some natural cleaning products or discover healing herbs and how to make tisanes and tinctures. Join us for forest bathing, bird watching, worm cultivation and loads of outdoor activities.

Ticket sales and social distancing rules are being strictly adhered to, so book in quick so you don’t miss out! Our site at Eden is spread over 1.2 hectares (2.5 acres) so it’s easy to spread out in our wide open spaces.

Note: Your donation will go to Father Chris Riley’s Youth Off The Streets.

What’s on:

Saturday 29th August:

9:30am- 11am – Budding Business Gurus Lemonade Workshop & Stall

9:30am – 12noon – MQ Sustainability Squad Clothing Swap

9:30am – 12:30pm – Boomerang Bag making and bees wax wraps with Lane Cove Sustainability Action Group

9:30am – 2pm – Sustainable Marketplace with artisans and experts

9.30am-11:30am – Healing Herbs Workshop with Margaret Mossakowska

12pm-2pm – Natural Skin Care Workshop with Margaret Mossakowska

2pm – 3pm – Possum Magic: gardening with flora and fauna with Bev Young from Sydney Wildlife Rescue

3pm – 4pm – Native Bees with Dr. Alexander Austin, Environmental Programs Officer, Ku-ring-gai Council

4pm-5pm – Insect hotel workshop

Various free sustainability film screenings (TBC)

Movie screenings (TBC)

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Sunday 30th August

9am-9:45am – Bird watching walk with Professor Darryl Jones, School of Environment and Science, Griffith University (TBC)

9am – 11am – Crop Swap Sydney

9:30am -10:30am – Kids Worm Farm Workshop

10am-11am – Bird feeding talk and hands on demo

10am – 11am – Earthlife Talk

10:30am – 12:30pm – Clean and Green Workshop with Margaret Mossakowska

11am-12pm- Kids ‘The Lorax’ storytelling and seed sowing

11am-12pm – Wildlife Gardens with Bev Debrincat from The Habitat

12pm-1pm – Tim’s talks at 12 – Plots in Pots

1pm – 2pm – ‘The Grevilleas Are Laughing’ Talk by Brian Roach, from the Australian Native Plants Society

2:30pm -3:30pm – Seed bomb making for kids

2:30pm-3:30pm – Teas and Tisanes with Tim

2pm-4pm – Fermenting workshop with Margaret Mossakowska

4pm-5pm- Kids games in the Gardens

Movie screening (TBC)

Keep an eye on this space as more workshops and talks being updated regularly