June 14, 2015
Growing The Burnett and the Burnett Mary Regional Group will be holding an information day for small acreage food producers, lifestyle dwellers and gardeners in Kingaroy on Saturday, June 20.
“Resilient, Sustainable Future” will be held at the Town Common Hall in Oliver Bond Street, Kingaroy between 10:00am and 4:00pm.
The event will focus on sustainable farming, and will feature six different presentations.
At 10:00am, Rohan Morris from Gayndah’s Gleneden Organic Farm will give a talk on Heritage Foods.
He will be followed at 11:00am by Brian Jarvis from Growing The Burnett, who’ll examine the necessity of planning today to meet tomorrow’s needs.
The session will then break for a half hour lunch.
At 12:30pm, the Friends Of Yarraman Creek will talk about how to regenerate waterways, using their own multi-year project on the banks of Yarraman Creek alongside Errol Munt Park as an example.
They’ll be followed at 1:30pm by Terry Stokes from the Centre For Growing Sustainability and Lou Hatton from Bio Organic Sustainable Solutions, who’ll discuss soil health and simple ways to improve it.
At 2:30pm, the new Barambah Beekeepers Club will talk about bee-keeping for fun and profit.
And at 3:00pm, Greg Taffe from Go Green Generation will talk about renewable energy, capping off his talk with the display of a new electric car.
Admission to the information session is free, but if you’d like morning tea, lunch and afternoon tea a $15 meal ticket is also available.
They can be booked by contacting Brian Jarvis on 0417-756-528 or by by emailing him.
Some meal tickets will also be available at the door on Saturday morning.
