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Growing & Cooking with Bushfoods
Growing & Cooking with Bushfoods
Delve into the intriguing and delicious world of learning to grow and cook Australian bush foods.
Explore Australian bush foods with this informative workshop. You will take a tour of the grounds of CERES where you will learn how to identify bush foods, and finish with a hands on demonstration of how to incorporate bush foods into simple, tasty and nutritious meals, desserts and snacks.
About the workshop
In this workshop you’ll:
- Tour the CERES bush food gardens
- Learn how to identify, grow and maintain a variety of local bush foods
- Gain knowledge of bush foods from further afar – tropical delights from Australia’s north, peppery spices from the south
Trainers Profiles
Belinda Kennedy has been working within the horticulture industry for more than a decade, specialising in sustainable and organic garden design and management that utilises permaculture principles. She has worked in numerous fields within the industry alongside several key landscape designers throughout Melbourne; co-designing, implementing and maintaining home landscapes on various scales; teaching training courses and workshops in certified horticulture and landscape design along with revegetation work along Melbourne’s waterways and parklands.
Belinda has completed an Advanced Diploma in Horticulture at Melbourne University, a Permaculture Design Course and is currently employed as the site horticulturalist and volunteer coordinator at CERES Community Environment Park alongside running a sustainable garden design and maintenance company. Along with her hands-on experience she is currently working on several literary productions based on permaculture and sustainable gardening along with producing a plant database for the inner Melbourne region.
Workshop Specifics
What will I learn?
- How to identify and harvest bush foods
- How to grow and maintain bush foods in the home garden
- How to incorporate bush foods into everyday recipes
What will I get?
- Handouts on bushfoods
- Tastings of delicious bushfood recipes
- Recipes to take home
What should I bring?
- Notepad and writing materials
What should I wear?
- Comfortable, weather-appropriate clothing and sturdy enclosed footwear, long hair tied back for kitchen use.
Terms and conditions
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COURSE DETAILS
May 4 @ 10:00 am – 3:00 pm
5 Hours
CERES Brunswick, Corner of Roberts & Stewart Streets, Brunswick East, Victoria.
$150*
Concession Available.
