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Using simple permaculture techniques we'll discuss the best way to design a garden that considers all the elements (sun, shade, water, soil), the people, and how to make beneficial connections between garden features. This results in lowering your effort while simultaneously raising productivity, and creating an efficient edible ecosystem.

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 workshop.

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 out to the garden.

If the weather is inclement we will move the class indoors.

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