Connect and Learn

Join us for a delicious start to the year as several of our Permaculture Toowoomba Inc. members share their favourite “garden to table” recipes using fresh, homegrown, seasonal ingredients.

The risks posed by certain plants escaping property boundaries and becoming environmental weeds or, to use a less loaded term, 'naturalised plants'.

In this practical session, permaculture educator Debbie Bassingthwaighte will guide you through the early steps of planning an edible garden that is productive, resilient, and deeply connected to your place.

Bring along your propagation questions, and pieces of plants you are not sure about how to propagate.

In this fascinating, 60 minute presentation, acclaimed Author/Presenter, Graeme Sait, will demonstrate the profound links between soil health, planetary health and the health of you and your family.

You can’t avoid insects. They scurry past us in the kitchen, pop up in our gardens, or are presented to us in jars by inquisitive children.  Despite encountering them on a daily basis, most people don’t know an aphid from an antlion.  As keen gardeners, we encounter many different types of insects. 

This presentation will be an intro to Neutrog - A Life Sciences Company. 

In this practical session, Margy Heuschele will show you examples of how she refashions, repairs and repurposes recycled textiles and clothing, how to extend the life of your clothes and textile articles through mending and creatively reimagine ways to use discarded fabric so that it doesn’t end up in landfill.