The Farm offers visitors an opportunity to meet our farmers and take an educational behind the scenes farm tour. Experience a guided walk around the grounds of The Farm and gain first hand knowledge of our sustainable and ethical farming practises.
Jump on horseback for an educational tour around The Farm and get a behind the scenes look at this sustainable agricultural operation. This slow paced tour provides an introduction to environmentally conscious farming; including everything from cattle to sunflowers! This tour is operated in partnership with Zephyr Horses and The Farm.
Join Willow and Ally for an introduction to beekeeping. Watch a Flow hive being harvested and have a look through an active Kenyan Top bar beehive while learning about the basics of natural beekeeping!
With over 15 years of experience in sustainable farming Lee McCosker offers this one-day pastured egg farming workshop at The Farm. Lee has spent the past 8 years in the Humane Society with a focus on farm animal welfare and has spent 6 of those years heavily involved in definitions of free range eggs.
You will learn how the biodynamic preparations contribute to the soil food web, creating fertility and balance in your soil. Biodynamics is a cost effective method of producing high quality plants, food and fibre with regenerative ecological outcomes. Applicable to urban gardeners, horticulture, small intensive cropping systems, broad acre farming, animal production and community gardens.
This course runs over two consecutive days and is designed to help those wishing to get started in pastured pork production, or those that already have, meet competency requirements for Australian pig farmers while learning how to farm pastured pigs and perhaps ironing out some issues they already have. We aim to set you on the right path to a sustainable and profitable pastured piggery business.
Farming Into The Future, an interactive seminar featuring Charlie Massy and six producers on regenerative agriculture, soil health, drought resilience and social and market trends for producers.
We start the workshop with an educational, hands-on and fun tour of The Farm followed by a discussion of the importance of Bees and a demonstration of how a beekeeper harvests the honey. We also taste honeycomb and cook honey pikelets and make natural beeswax candles.
The kids become mini farmers and get set to work doing farm chores; collecting and cleaning eggs, checking fences, feeding animals, clearing paddocks and more. They work along side the farmers from Liberation Larder in the market garden. They cook, create and see where their food comes from as well as experience countless opportunities to learn about teamwork, community, and ethical farming practices.
We start the workshop with an educational, hands on and fun tour of The Farm followed by a discussion about cows, animal welfare and eating meat. In craft we make a cow trinket jar and the children learn how to make butter.
We start the workshop with an educational, hands on and fun tour of The Farm followed by a discussion and taste of veggies and herbs we have picked on the tour. We work in our Farm Kids veggie plot and make a crafty and hilarious MR Potato head to take home.
We start the workshop with an educational, hands on and fun tour of The Farm followed by a discussion on ethical pig farming and animal welfare. We visit the pigs, big and small, and talk about many fun piggy facts that are both interesting and funny! We make bacon and egg potato rosti and in craft make a pig pencil holder.
We start the workshop with an educational, hands-on and fun tour of The Farm followed by a discussion of the importance of Bees and a demonstration of how a beekeeper harvests the honey. We also taste honeycomb and cook honey pikelets and make natural beeswax candles.
We start the workshop with an educational and fun tour of The Farm followed by a discussion on chicken welfare and healthy egg production. We make veggie pancakes and crafty little dinosaur eggs. We use the eggshells from cooking to create egg people with watercress hair.
We start the workshop with an educational, hands-on and fun tour of The Farm followed by a discussion of the importance of Bees and a demonstration of how a beekeeper harvests the honey. We also taste honeycomb and cook honey pikelets and make natural beeswax candles.
We start the workshop with an educational, hands on and fun tour of The Farm where we specifically search for and focus our discussion on Flowers. We examine parts and purposes of flowers, we smell and taste edible flowers and learn about companion planting. In craft we make bath bombs using flower essences and plant flower seeds in trays to start our own flower garden.
Join us for a FREE community workshop on how to grow your own waste-free mushrooms (from the mushroom chapter in our new book), at The Farm at Byron Bay. Followed by a Q&A with the authors, and book signings. Stick around afterwards for afternoon tea? In partnership with The Farm at Byron Bay and Byron’s local bookstore, The Book Room. No need to book, just show up at 3pm! You’ll find us in The Farmhouse, next to the outdoor dining area.
A comprehensive backyard beekeeping course designed to teach the basics required to keep your own honeybees.
You will learn how the biodynamic preparations contribute to the soil food web, creating fertility and balance in your soil. Biodynamics is a cost effective method of producing high quality plants, food and fibre with regenerative ecological outcomes. Applicable to urban gardeners, horticulture, small intensive cropping systems, broad acre farming, animal production and community gardens.
A comprehensive backyard beekeeping course designed to teach the basics required to keep your own honeybees.
With over 15 years of experience in sustainable farming Lee McCosker offers this one-day pastured egg farming workshop at The Farm. Lee has spent the past 8 years in the Humane Society with a focus on farm animal welfare and has spent 6 of those years heavily involved in definitions of free range eggs.
