Grow Your Own Vegetables with Cal Champagne

Practical and fun sustainability at its best! Join farm manager Cal Champagne at the Green Connect farm in Warrawong to learn the fundamentals of growing chemical-free vegetables and herbs.

This step-by-step workshop ensures everyone leaves with the knowledge and skills to grow an edible garden on a balcony, in a backyard or over a whole property. Come along to learn the following:

- Understanding how vegetables and herbs grow
- Helping vegetables and herbs to grow without chemicals
- Tools and techniques used to produce vegetables and herbs
- Building healthy soils through composting, no-dig gardening, and other soil preparation techniques
- Designing crop rotation plans, and planting plans
- Transplanting and direct seeding of vegetables
- Managing weeds, pests and diseases that impact on your veggies
- Fertilising, irrigating, and harvesting practices

This workshop has a hands-on focus. It’ll give you not only the knowledge, but also the skills and experience to grow healthy veg and herbs!