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Many weeds are used by health practitioners for their curative properties. Join this class and learn to make the most of plants you may otherwise bin. Adam will take you through an overview of local weeds, before leading a walk and forage through the school gardens.
He will also discuss their medicinal properties and some of their ecological uses as soil improvers, soil indicators and compost additives.
 
Adam Grubb is a writer, thinker, grower and forager. He is a director of permaculture design consultancy and training organisation Very Edible Gardens, helps organise the global permablitz network, writes and does regular radio appearances, keeps bees, and lives in a beautiful garden in Brunswick.  With his partner Annie Raser-Rowland he wrote the The Weed Forager's Handbook (Hyland House, 2012).

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Please note this is a theoretical class.

Enter the College via the main reception area, which is located near the end of Cromwell Street, and follow the signs to the kitchen where we will meet before heading to the garden. 

Public transport is often a good way to get to Collingwood College, with Collingwood train station only minutes away. However, on Saturdays there is usually parking available in the immediate vicinity of the College. Other parking options are generally the north and south sides of Hoddle Street, in Gipps Street and in the parking zone at the end of Islington Street.

Please note, the Foundation endeavours to proceed with each Public Workshop as planned, however in the instance of very low numbers of registrants or other unfortunate events we reserve the right to cancel a workshop up to 48 hours before scheduled. In all cases we will do our utmost to inform registrants a week in advance of any cancellation, and a 100% refund will be made