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2010 Workshops
These workshop days are planned as very special outings for those who love gardens and gardening, the art of good food, and being spoiled for a day. Each workshop ends in a relaxing afternoon tea and a chance to ask workshop leaders for expert advice before returning home. Workshop enrolments can also make a wonderful gift for special occasions, and are ideal for get-togethers with friends, for Christmas functions, and for club and society outings.
These workshops are very special. Expect to have truly expert, highly qualified and experienced speakers, fascinating diverse topics, wonderful surroundings, superb catering and very special attention provided in limited number groups. All workshops will be held in the truly delightful ‘Garden Room’, a specially designed and elegant Provencal-style venue with every amenity at Mill Farm, 303 Mill Road, Kurrajong, about 1 and a 1/4 hours from the Sydney CBD. The venue is situated within the tranquil setting of extensive and beautiful country gardens, and has ample parking. The workshops are jointly presented by Honeysuckle Cottage Nursery and Mill Farm.
Your whole day including Morning Tea and Lunch, talks, demonstrations and printed speaker notes is just $90 per person Groups of Three or more pay just $85 per person.
Sunday 25th July 2010
9.30 am to 3.30 pm
Organic Gardening from A to Z
Discover the secrets of successful easy modern organic gardening. Grow snapping-fresh delicious vegetables and luscious fruits, and create a beautiful ornamental garden without chemicals using sustainable, proven organic gardening techniques:
- Re-plan your garden and design a beautiful and productive kitchen garden and orchard and reduce your food miles to a few metres
- Soil types, soil structure, pH effect, microclimate, drainage.
- Preparing the soil - brains over brawn
- When to use what organic fertilisers.
- The magic of humus
- Bulky organic additives and soil improvers including methods for simple unfailing compost production, manures, sawdust, mushroom compost, poultry manure, leaf mould, pine and casuarina needles, cotton meal, peanut meal, spent hops, seaweed, lucerne. worm castings
- Concentrated organic fertilisers including dried pelleted poultry manures, fish meal, blood and bone, hoof and horn.
- Trace elements, their role and sources.
- Liquid and organic foliar feeds - how to make,when to use and why: manure and weed soups’, creating a wormery and using wormery liquid seaweed and fish fertilisers.
- Asian vegetables; Heirloom vegetables and fruits - the great performers and taste sensations; planting techniques; raising seedlings
- Identifying pests and diseases, minimising pest and disease damage, wildlife attractors, pest deterrents, companion planting, crop rotation; home made organic sprays
- Gardening by the moon - true or false?
- Waterwise gardening; using organic mulches.
The workshop will be presented by Dr Judyth McLeod and Martin Wade.
Morning Tea
A warm welcome with fireplace and air conditioning, hot chocolate with marshmallows, a range of herbal teas and freshly brewed coffee available all day, plus warm blueberry muffins fresh from the oven.
Lunch
It is Christmas In July at this July Workshop! Expect all the traditional delights! Vegtarian treats too. All among delightful Christmas inspired floral decorations.
Directions:
Those attending Workshops are sent additional information and a map for easy-to-locate Mill Farm a week before the event together with a receipt.
"Look what you just missed!"
Sunday 27th June 2010
9.30 am to 3.30 pm
In The Winter Garden
In our climate, winter is a time when the garden slows down but conditions are still pleasant enough on most days to enjoy being outdoors, giving a chance to catch up on all those jobs that will make next summer’s garden a pleasure but also to enjoy winter flowers and fragrances and maybe create a sunny sheltered winter retreat in your garden garden.
The winter garden clean up; maintaining all lawn and garden equipment including how to professionally sharpen secateurs; find out how to winter prune all garden shrubs, roses and fruit trees with practical demonstrations; tricks for minimising frost damage; plants to lift each winter; staking trees and shrubs; caring for perennials; the winter vegetable garden A to Z including planning of crops; harvesting the winter garden with recipes and ideas for delicious meals from the produce; a herbal medicine chest from your garden for treating simple winter ills; fragrant and beautiful flowers for the mid-winter garden; indoor bulb growing; planning for the spring garden; some building projects and crafts for winter from trellises, paths of leaf imprinted hand made pavers, archways, tiny ornamental pools, and mosaics to retreat areas.
The workshop will be presented by Dr Judyth McLeod and Martin Wade.
Morning Tea
A warm welcome with fireplace and air conditioning, hot chocolate with marshmallows, a range of herbal teas and freshly brewed coffee, plus herb and cheese scones and blueberry muffins fresh from the oven .
Lunch
This workshop lunch will feature slow cooking and organic produce with two delicious warming soups, freshly baked breads, several slow cooked dishes, and a warm pudding.
Directions:
Those attending Workshops are sent additional information and a map for easy-to-locate Mill Farm a week before the event together with a receipt.
To Enrol
Download and fill out this form and mail back to:
Honeysuckle Cottage
30 Bowen Mountain Rd.
Grosevale 2753
Or ring us to book on 02 4572 1345 between 9 and 5 (other than Wednesday when we nursery gnomes take a short break).
Our Workshop Policy
All workshops must be paid for in full in advance of the advertised date to allow for ordering of workshop materials and special catering arrangements with restaurants. Cancellations can be made without penalty up to one week prior to a workshop. We regret that cancellations after that date incur a 30% fee. We advise making an early booking for the workshops of your choice as some can be booked out well ahead of time. Numbers are always restricted so that those who attend receive personal attention. A few workshops will also have sales ofpotted herbs, herbal roses, and essential oils, and the books of workshop leaders for sale. If you would like to purchase any, facilities are available for credit cards (Amex, Visa, Mastercard).
Your Workshop Leaders for 2010
Mr Martin Wade Martin’s early career was as an Horticultural Officer in the Dept. of Agriculture, NSW. He joined the academic staff of Hawkesbury Agricultural College and then the University of Western Sydney where he was a lecturer in production horticulture, particularly floriculture and orchard production, later specialising in landscaping. He left his university career in order to devote himself full time to his ever expanding business Classic Celebrations specialising in creating truly memorable weddings, parties, and events small and large, private, social or business. Martin works from a studio on his landscaped ten acre property in Kurrajong which provides many rare and exclusive seasonal floral materials. Events that he creates are quite simply sensational and remembered long afterward by those who attend, with fabulous floral decorations from utterly romantic to high pizzaz. He is renowned for his elegant and spectaular one-of-a-kind themed events. All aspects of an event can be managed and co-ordinated by Classic Celebrations.
Contact him on 0408 677 866 or write to him at:
'Mill Farm'
303 Mill Rd, Kurrajong, 2758
or Email: millfm@bigpond.net.au
(NB All workshop bookings through Judyth please)
Dr Judyth McLeod Judyth recently left her post as head of landscaping (also specialising in sustainable horticulture) at the University of Western Sydney (to become a full time author and consultant editor, and to co-manage Honeysuckle Cottage Nursery with her husband Keith McLeod, a business founded on conserving antique plant varieties and restoring historic gardens.
As a landscape historian and designer, Judyth has been the consultant and designer for many historic gardens and landscapes. She creates restoration designs for existing gardens associated with older homes (Federation and earlier), country homesteads, and historic public landscapes. She also designs gardens in authentic style to match the era of older properties small to large which lack an appropriate setting. Her designs have also been widely used in creating private and public thematic gardens, herb gardens, and fragrance gardens.
Judyth is the author of seventeen books including Heritage Gardening, Botanica's Organic Gardening, Organic at Home, Fragrant Native Gardens Natural Health and Beauty from Australian Plants, Our Heritage of Old Roses, the best selling Lavender Sweet Lavender, In A Unicorn's Garden (featuring the gardens and plants of the medieval period, and The Atlas of Legendary Lands. She was a major contributor to The Complete Book of Herbs, What Rose Is That, Herb and Vegetable Gardening: The Definitive Guide to Growing, and Harvesting Herbs and Vegetables, Organic at Home and Flora: The Gardener's Bible, and was the consultant editor for Roses, Grow Your Own Fruit and Vegetables, Kitchen Gardener’s Cookbook, Short Cuts to Great Gardens, and Forbidden Advice among many. Her latest book is Vampires: A Little Bite of History (Murdoch Books).
She wrote regularly for ABC Gardening Australia, has written for many of Australia's leading magazines, and was the senior editor of the internationally distributed The Cottager magazine.
See her author's website with blogs and her Honeysuckle Cottage blogs by following the links on the front page of the website: www.honeysuckle-cottage.com.au
To contact Judyth: kamcleod@zeta.org.au
Ph. 02 4572 1345 Or write to:
Honeysuckle Cottage,
30 Bowen Mountain Rd., Grosevale 2753
Mr Keith McLeod B.Sc.Hons., M.Sc spent his early career as a Horticultural Officer in the Dept of primary Industry in Queensland
before becoming a university lecturer in horticulture. He subsequently took on the full time management of Honeysuckle Cottage
Nursery. He is also a well known professional horticultural photographer with some thirty books for which he has been the sole
or major photographer, as well as many magazine articles.
Pamela White holds a degree in horticulture and has extensive experience in the horticultural industry. She has an exceptional
knowledge of plants and gardening techniques.
Michelle Duff holds a TAFE diploma in horticulture and has considerable experience in a wide range of garden plants.
Her brother is an outstanding award winning chef in the UK and Michelle who shares his passion and skill is a highly accomplished
cook with a great love of herbs.
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Treat Yourself To A Fabulous Gardener's Workshop
Organic Gardening From A To Z
Sunday 25th July
9.30 - 3.30
more...
30 Bowen Mountain Rd
Grosevale NSW
Directions given in
To Find Us
and on Google Maps
NOW AVAILABLE
Mail Order catalogues
"A Heritage of Plants for Fragrance, Use and Delight"
($4 including postage; Perennials, Shrubs and Herbs')
"Roses of History and Romance"
($3 including postage Wild, Heritage, Nostalgia and David Austin Roses).
Dr Judyth McLeod's latest book
"In A Unicorn's Garden" (Murdoch Books) The medieval world, its gardens and plants.
Available from Honeysuckle Cottage for $49.95 plus $5.00 postage. (Signed copy available if wished.)
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Pictures from
MILL FARM
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