Introduction to Food Forestry and Syntropic Farming Course

Create a resilient, perennial, food forest in your backyard!


Mountains Gourmet

Mountains Gourmet

14 hours Class size 5 to 20 guests     $450

Blue Mountains
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Flowers and Plants
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Gardening
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Sustainability
Creating a resilient, perennial, food forest in your backyard to service your household and the various communities around you, is extremely rewarding. Not only with you benefit financially through the harvest of consistent, healthy, diverse food but your soil and local ecosystem will also be enriched for future generations.
We all descend from an ancestor who was deeply embedded within a perennial ecosystem. Food, herbs, shelter, medicine, fibres, trinkets, weapons, tools, skincare, dye and even mind altering compounds - our ancestors derived everything for their lives from the habitat immediately surrounding them: forests.
Syntropic agriculture involves creating a diverse, resilient, self-perpetuating, multi-layered agroforestry system consisting of different types of perennial plants and trees. The plants are arranged in a way that allows them to benefit from each other's presence, in “syntropy”. The dynamic ecology created in these systems is capable of providing its own water and nutrient needs while providing immeasurable and diverse resources. Food forests can be adapted to tiny backyards and expanded into many hectares.
During this workshop you ill have the opportunity to participate in the instillation process of a syntropic agroforestry system and learn the fundamentals of managing this system such as;
  • Forest ecology
  • Planning and design
  • Plant selection and targets
  • Nurse plants
  • Evolution over time (succession)
  • “The macro-organism” concept
  • Management, Chop & Drop, pest control
  • Forest bathing, wellness and the therapeutic quality of trees
  • Planting resilient backyard ecosystems that can shift with problematic climate and economy
Specific details
  • 04/11/2023 - 05/11/2023
  • 9am - 4pm both days
  • Lunch provided
This workshop will be hosted at the Hazelbrook plot and will be the beginning of a new syntropic food forest system under. Continual workshops will be held during the year as this system is established with participants encouraged to attend ongoing advanced workshops.

Knowledge required
Beginner friendly - all welcome
 
What you'll get
  • Edible tree gifts to take home
  • Workshop printouts
  • Seeds and seedlings
What to bring
Weather appropriate clothing
Enclosed shoes
Gloves and hand tools if you have them
Suitable for

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

Location

Hazelbrook, NSW

Exact location is masked for privacy. You'll automatically get the specific address after booking.

Introduction to Food Forestry and Syntropic Farming Course location
Your teacher

Mountains Gourmet
Mountains Gourmet


Mountains Gourmet is a young vibrant business with a goal to grow nutritious, climate specific food in every household! We are passionate about connecting people directly to their food, where it comes from and how it's grown.
We do this by growing and supplying affordable, delicious, naturally grown fruit, herbs and vegetables to our local retailers, restaurants and homes and educating those consumers to learn how to grow their own!
Mountains Gourmet hosts local workshops here in the Blue Mountains, private workshops all over the Sydney region and works directly with land owners to achieve their edible garden dreams. Assisting individuals and landowners to grown their own through mentorship programs increases community connection and solidifies our local food system!
Join Mountains Gourmet in the journey of growing your own sustainable food system.
Mountains Gourmet was born in 2022 by Rhiannon Phillips, A Blue Mountains local who had previously been managing Certified Organic farms in the Hawkesbury region. Rhiannon saw the need for a more secure fresh food soruces in the Blue Mountains and took the plunge to start her own growing business. After a difficult few years of flooding, bushfires and covid 19, it is safe to say that Mountains Gourmet was born at the perfect time and has been well received throughout the community.
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