Date: Wednesday 5th & Thursday 6th February 2025
Location: Woollahra Residence
Join Kyle and Ricky for a two day Working Bee in the Eastern Suburbs of Sydney. Get some hands on experience and learn two different methods of natural building in community!
Wattle and daub installation using bamboo for a chicken coop. Straw clay light earth installation for a tree house walls.
You will need to bring sun protection, food, water bottle and work boots (even though at some stage we will get your boots off for a mud stomp).
Tea and biscuits provided.
Date: Saturday 31st August
Location: Willoughby
Date: Saturday 20th July
Location: Asquith
In a world full of high tech solutions to our global problems wood fuel is often seen as dirty and backwards when in fact locally harvested and efficiently combusted wood fuel is a very clean and sustainable
option for heating and cooking.
A rocket stove is one of the most efficient ways to cook with wood fuel and only needs sticks and branches to run. Through complete combustion of the wood gases they produce next to no smoke so are a great cooking option to reduce reliance on fossil fuels and are suitable for use in suburban backyards.
As earth building enthusiasts Kyle and Ricky, will show you how to make a rocket stove for cooking out of clay, sand, straw and perlite. Rocket stoves can be made from various materials but the versatility, durability and thermal performance of clay makes it stand out as one of the best options, plus we like an excuse to get our hands dirty and play in the mud.
The workshop will be covering the following:
1. What is a rocket stove
2. An overview on different DIY rocket stoves
3. Making an Adobe and insulative clay rocket stove
There will be an option to make one of these portable rocket stoves for yourself for an extra $80 (only 5 available) or we will be happy to let participants borrow the forms if they would like to make their own at home.
The workshop will be hosted by Kyle Taylor from Tierra Projects and Ricky Klein from Hearth Build along side Permaculture Sydney North
Have you considered growing mushrooms in your backyard? King stropharia are a great option that do not require sterile technique to cultivate and thus work great in a garden/backyard setting.
In this workshop we will cover:
We will be working outside, so please dress appropriately. Bring your own gloves if you plan on getting your hands dirty and bring a bucket (1-5L) if you would like to take some King Stropharia Spawn to grow in your own garden.
Date: Saturday 18th May 2024
Time: 1pm – 4pm
Maximum: 15 people
Cost: $40
Location: Pennant Hills
Super excited to announce our first workshop of 2024 on Sunday 25th Feburary.
Join us with @permaculture.n.beaches for this hands on and highly practical workshop where you will learn how to set out and dig suburban-size contour swales in preparation for a food forest.
Water management is absolutely vital today with increasingly unpredictable and severe rain events. Swales are an amazing way of slowing and catching water in the landscape. They increase soil soakage and infiltration whilst preventing run off into gullies and drains.
What’s the result? A more effective water cycle and more functional ecosystems for future generations.
Kicking 2023 off with our first Earth Building Workshop hosted by @permaculturesydneynorth
For more information visit the Permaculture Sydney North website where you can register for the workshop.
To read more about what this workshop was about you can read an article which @naturalbuildingaus published last year.
Natural Building in the suburbs of Sydney
We feel that the best way we can serve our community is through workshops. Workshops empower people through learning new skills, increasing awareness and understanding of sustainable and regenerative living, provide a deeply satisfying sense of fulfilment, build and strengthen local communities and allow us all to take a step towards the changes we want to see in the world.
Get in touch if you would like to discuss organising a workshop for a school, community group or anywhere.
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Tierra Projects acknowledges the traditional owners of Gai-Mariagal country on whose unceded lands we live and work. We acknowledge their frontier wars, their fallen warriors and their elders past present and emerging.
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