Learn with SubPod
Born and bred in Byron Bay, Subpod inspires people in 26 countries to simply and easily turn their food waste into food for the soil and grow nutrient-dense food. Our goal is to take the hard work out of composting and help support and educate people to make composting and connection to nature a part of their everyday life - wherever they live!
There are so many great reasons to start a garden in your own backyard, small space or balcony. From boosting mental health through contact with nature to enriching your daily hobbies and diet, there isn’t a reason not to begin planning your garden.
Come and learn how to compost at home and grow delicious food and beautiful plants with the team from Subpod. Meet our new balcony and small space modular garden system Modbed - the perfect design for urban living.
Learn how to divert waste, build soil and grow food!
Do you want to become a successful gardener and start growing some of your own food and flowers?
Are you new to the wriggly world of composting with worms, and want to learn?
How about engaging in a wonderful natural ecology that inspires us to start caring for our planet?
Learn how to transform your food waste into a valuable resource as fertiliser for your plants in your own home.
Come join Peter Howard (our science guy) and Hannah Robertson from Our Little Flower Farm at The Farmhouse and learn how to make composting and growing part of your everyday life!
Hannah Robertson, is a small scale cut flower farmer and environmentally responsible florist. She teaches workshops and provides mentorship in the fundamentals of no dig/low dig agriculture for small scale flower farmers and quality production of cut flowers.
Peter Howard is a research biologist with a PHD in Molecular Genetics who is using his three decades of biological research experience to develop science based composting and gardening systems and practices that make it easy to turn waste into a resource, build soil health and grow your own organic food.
We will cover:
Site assessment
Small space garden design
Choosing plants for your garden
Small space gardening and composting with Modbed
Making fertiliser for your plants with compost from your Subpod
Subpod online support through our Grow Hub Community
From 2pm, Saturday 22 January, 2022
Where: The Farm Farmhouse