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A day of fun-filled learning shared with your local Kitchen Garden Program colleagues. This is a workshop-based day which will provide an opportunity for building your skills in particular components of the kitchen or garden. In addition to the workshops run throughout the day you will have plenty of time to catch up and make new connections with colleagues and peers from the Kitchen Garden Program community. There will also be time set aside to catch up on news from the Stephanie Alexander Kitchen Garden Foundation.

“For the gardeners we will have an in depth look at soil rehabilitation. What happens after five years of intensive productive gardening and how can we make sure we are caring for the soil in the right way to keep production up and yields bountiful to provide for year around kitchen classes? Joyce Wilkie and Michael Plane from Allsun Farm will be sharing their decades of knowledge in this very special workshop. In the afternoon we will be looking at advanced propagation techniques and growing garlic year around with Berrima Garden Specialist and propagation expert Kim Moule.
 
Those who specialise in the kitchen will be treated to an afternoon of learning new techniques for preserving your harvest, Kitchen Specialist Deb Hebbard will be showing us how to correctly and safely bottle and dehydrate your bounty to use throughout the year. The morning workshops are still to be confirmed, but promise to be fantastic learning opportunities for all and we will all get to enjoy some of the fruits of labour from the kitchen at our wonderful sit down lunch. You will also be taking home a few handmade treats to show off to your friends.” 

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