Urban Micro-farming Workshop

Learn all about veggies, mushrooms, composting and poultry on an urban scale



6 hours Location Springwood Class size 8 to 20 guests   $180
Blue Mountains Activities
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Flowers & Plants
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Gardening
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Sustainability
This full day workshop is an introduction to bio-intensive vegetable production, composting, poultry integration and mushroom production on an urban scale. Whether you are just getting started with growing your own food or have been wanting to grow more, this workshop will get you skilled up & growing more food at home.
The workshop combines three fun hands-on sessions with detailed course notes full of practical skills and resources. The first session covers seedling propagation, preparing a growing space, vegetable crop spacing and chemical-free crop protection methods to maximise your productivity of nutrient-dense veggies in a small space.
The second session covers the art of composting, and tips on integrating poultry into your urban food production system. We explore a range of composting approaches so you can choose what's best for your context.
In the last session, you'll discover how easy it is to grow your own supply of fresh oyster mushrooms and the steps involved in simple mushroom cultivation. You even get to take home your own mushroom grow bag and enjoy growing and harvesting your very own flush of oyster mushrooms!
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The workshop takes place at our home and urban micro-farm in the lower Blue Mountains. Jo and Joe operate a small scale commercial urban market garden, supplying veggie boxes to the local community and businesses. We love sharing the skills we have learned over the past decade to maximise food production and minimise waste.
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Head home with our detailed course notes and resources to get you started on your own successful urban scale micro-farming journey, plus some free seeds or seedlings, a mushroom bag and other goodies to get you started!
What you'll get
A selection of free seeds or seedlings to take home to kick start your very own veggie patch, detailed course notes, refreshments and yummies to keep you going throughout the morning and your very own mushroom grow bag.
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Knowledge required
Beginners to more experienced gardeners and farmers welcome.
What to bring
Water, hat, gloves (if you like), pen and paper.
Suitable for

This class is great for a team building activity, Christmas party, birthday or hens party.

Location

Urbavore Micro-Farm - 57 Lucinda Avenue, Springwood NSW

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Recent reviews of Urban Micro-farming Workshop

  • 5/5 from Susie, attended Jan 2023: Joe and Jo were generous, welcoming and informed hosts. They shared more than their excellent gardening knowledge with their generosity. Their house and garden are inspirations in terms of what can be produced on a small urban block. This is a course I would recommend to first time and experienced gardeners who want to produce a little or a lot. There was information for all. Thank you
  • 5/5 from Mark Watson, attended Nov 2022: What a great asset this family is to the Mountains area. Excellent informative workshop that covered a lot of ground and was delivered in a fun and relaxed format by Joe & Jo. I would highly recommend to others
  • 5/5 from Rowena Swann, attended Nov 2022: Had a fantastic time at todays class- seeing a small yard transformed into a mini farm was extremely inspiring, and the teacher Joe was an enthusiast who lives his craft every day. This was a terrific overview of micro urban farming that was full of tips, ideas, and shortcuts that would take years to master on your own. I think this will improve my veggie patch results no end. Joe and his wife Jo are passionate experts who are extremely knowledgeable and very happy to share what they know. If your veggie patch needs improving, you want to get chooks and master the compost heap, come along to this interactive class and have a wonderful time learning all about it. For ages 18 to 80! :P
  • 5/5 from Cathy Stathis, attended Nov 2022: I thoroughly enjoyed this workshop. I learnt a lot and it has invigorated my passion for growing vegetables again. Jo and Joe are great hosts and very welcoming and knowledgeable.
  • 5/5 from Tulin Sayah, attended Feb 2022: SSSSSSOOOOO Good Was such a fun day learning how we can incorporate clean living from mother earth into our daily lives
  • 5/5 from Yolanda Weyde, attended Mar 2021: Joe and Jo were absolutely delightful hosts they were both extremely informative in urban farming. During Covid they started a verg outside their home a community garden which is well attended, there was a hands on with planting garlic and starting a mushroom kit. We were treated to a wonderful morning tea, I would highly recommend this workshop for anyone that is interested in growing your own food.
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Urbavore
Urbavore

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Urbavore is an urban scale market garden in the beautiful Blue Mountains, supplying weekly veggie boxes and educational workshops to inspire other to grow more food in urban spaces. Learn how to grow your own thriving vegetable market garden, compost, chickens and quails, bees, fruit trees, edible hedges, and save your own seed, grow your own Mushrooms and more, all from an urban space. Our mission is to reconnect people with the lost art of abundant urban food production and encourage others on their own growing journey.
Blue Mountains Activities
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Flowers & Plants
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Gardening
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Sustainability

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2026-10-30 15:00:00
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