Spring cohort, delivered exclusively online and at Farmwall HQ in Alphington - August 22 till October 30 2022
Become a master at growing your own food in only 10 weeks! If you are dreaming of a regenerative food system like we do , and if you want to learn how to grow your own food sustainably in your own home and your own city, then this is for you! Learn, experience, make friends and step into the future of food with this unique offer.
LIMITED OFFER, BOOK NOWGrowing Food Resilience
Our first Resilience Growing Cohort started during the first lockdown in 2020 when we all experienced empty supermarket shelves for the first time. Today, with rising food costs across the planet, being resilient means that we can grow the basic needs of our food ourselves and that we have a better understanding of where our food comes from.
Learn how to create your own sustainable and organic food supply!
Feeling Food Secure
The world is not running out of food any time soon! Our food system is becoming more fragile though and at increased risk of climate change and global unrest. Food Security is a feeling that you generate with skills, knowledge, and being a part of a network and local food system. When you learn how to fish you can feed yourself, and others.
Part 1: Do in your own time - Learning and growing superfood at home!
You are receiving a beautifully designed Farmwall Home Aquaponic and seedling production system that will teach you how to grow Microgreens and Seedlings, using Aquaponics. This course is online and you can do it at your own pace and your own time. All materials are included.
- Growing Microgreens & Learning how to Sprout
- Introduction to Aquaponics & Aquaculture
- Aquascaping and Fish Caring Essentials
- Introduction to the Circular Economy and Biophilic Design
- Growing the perfect Seedlings, Seed Saving, Soil
- Social Enterprise and the UN's Sustainable Development Goals
The Farmwall will help you produce sufficient Microgreens and Sprouts for 2-3 people, adding daily nutrition and freshness to all meals.
You will also be nurturing and raising 5 Barramundi Fingerlings, that will grow to a harvestable size at the Farmwall Greenhouse over Summer. .
Part 2: Weekly Urban Farming - At Farmwall’s Urban Farm in Alphington - 10 weeks starting August 26th.
Enjoy your own urban farm garden bed, and your own space in Farmwall’s greenhouse for raising your seedlings. Grow real food: vegetables, mushrooms, eggs and more.
- Introduction and Goal Setting, OH&S
- Microgreen Farming and Propagation
- Hydroponics and Vertical Farming
- Soil and Wicking Beds
- Mushrooms, Fungi Culture & Carbon Sequestering
- Brewing Organic Fertilisers and Teas, Composting
- Up-cycling and Growing Food in a Circular Economy
- Aquaculture and Animal Husbandry, Chooks
- Bush Foods and Biodiversity, Darebin Parklands Tour
- Running a Market Stand - Giving Back to Food Relief
The course runs weekly for 4 hours with options on Friday Afternoon, Saturday Morning, Saturday Afternoon, Sunday Morning. PDF handouts are available when you’re unable to attend for the day.
As part of the course you will receive access to your garden bed at the farm till the end of summer 2023.
All tools and required materials are provided. Bring along a mask, warm clothing and boots, and your contribution to a pot luck lunch.
We're located right next to the train and bus station and there's plenty of parking around.
The Online Community
You are connected to all the participants via Farmwalls online platform and community, Ecosystem by Farmwall. During your course we are hosting a weekly webinar with guest speakers from across different urban food industries. You’ll have ongoing direct access to support from Farmwalls' Urban Farmers.
Join a growing community of over 400 urban farmers from all over Australia.
Urban Food Community
Farmwall is located at Melbourne Innovation Centre, where a new urban food system is developing. Our neighbours are Melbourne Farmers Market, Reground, Sporadical City Mushrooms, The Practical Beekeeper, The Melbourne Food Hub, Sustain, The Mushroomery, Outback Academy and La Sirene Brewing.
Together we will grow a few tonnes of food, for ourselves and for the common good.
With Farmwall you are Growing Resilient through Knowledge, Technology and Community.
Join the movement of change makers today!
We are Certified Social Enterprise, 50% of the profits of this course and 20% of the crops we grow during it will be donated to Cultivating Community to increase food relief and security in the broader community. .
We are a Founding Member of Climate Salad. Farmwall is a climate tech and agritech startup and we are on the hunt for 2 co-founders to join on our journey of developing scalable climate solutions. Come and meet us!
We are obsessed with the UN's Sustainable Development Goals and we measure our impacts via a framework of SDG's and ESG. They are embedded in what we do and referred to throughout our educational materials.
Don't miss out on this very unique opportunity, spots are limited and we are only running one course this year.
Your own indoor Farmwall and plot, future-ready farming skills + hundreds of hours of content, education and resources + heaps of food grown by you. Create meals with food that you have grown. Course Value $1,995
Early Registration: $795
Ends midnight July 17 2022, Includes Farmwall T-shirt (Late Registration: $1,125)
"We never know the worth of water till the well is dry"
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