Build a Survival Garden in the Blue Mountains

How to Build a Survival Garden in the Blue Mountains

A workshop at the Blue Mountains Planetary Health Centre

33-39 Acacia St Katoomba

If you’re a beginner gardener or an experienced gardener wanting to connect with community and learn about growing more unusual seeds or plants, join the Planetary Health Centre for a three hour workshop: How to Build a Survival Garden in the Blue Mountains.

This workshop will be led by Lis Bastian. She co-founded the Blue Mountains Permaculture Institute with Rowe Morrow in 2007 and has been working with the community to run Blackheath Community Farm for over 8 years. For the last 3.5 years she has been the Senior Lead for Blue Mountains City Council’s Planetary Health Initiative and is working with volunteers to establish a Planetary Health Garden at the Centre.

She will lead a discussion on how we can work together to make our local food system healthier and more resilient and will share:

• Learn about the 25 lesser known plants that got people through the Great Depression and recipes for how to use them
• Learn about what you would need to plant to provide all your nutritional needs to survive on a plant based diet
• Learn what to plant if you want to harvest fruit all year round in the Mountains
• Be part of a discussion on how we can work together to make obur local food system healthier and more resilient

Bring crops and seeds to share with the community. There will be seeds, tubers and plants available to purchase on the day.