MasterCLASS - 1 day workshop

VISIONTo establish Serpentine-Jarrahdale and its communities as a hub for successful and sustainable Peri-urban agriculture and connected industries.MISSIONTo champion annual educational and promotional activities that support Peri-urban agriculture and influence broader issues such as food security, increasing local economies and community health and nutrition.OBJECTIVESStimulate new Peri-urban economic development through small scale farming and direct marketingCultivate awareness of healthy eating habits through educationFoster support for Serpentine-Jarrahdale’s regionally grown and processed foodsDevelop local access to affordable fresh foodRaise awareness of the importance of small farms and small farm managementHighlight the relationship of agriculture to urban communities and the environmentTo develop a ‘Local Community Food Plan’This will initially be delivered through a schedule of events that focus on:Food and small farm education programs in each communityVisits to local farmsHome gardening workshopsDevelopment of local food initiativesFrom ‘Garden Gate to Dinner Plate’ cooking demonstrationsAnd anything else that will foster a stronger relationship with the urban and agricultural community

Serpentine Jarrahdale Food and Farm Alliance Inc

Increase farm productivity by stacking complimentary enterprises & improving your soil health.
Joel’s summary:
Filling up the farm is foundational to economic, ecological, and emotional viability.  Adding poultry to cattle, or adding grapes to orchard trees illustrate stacking complementary enterprises.  Too often farmers produce only one thing and only consider increased income as a result of expanding that one thing.  But diversifying the production portfolio builds resilience economically and ecologically.  Adding additional enterprises is also the gateway to adding salaries from a given land base.  A farm team moves the business to successional possibility.
In marketing, offering vegetable customers something like dairy or meat increases customer spending.  Joel Salatin will explore all these nuances, including how to add labour without guaranteeing a pay check.
 Christine’s summary:
Life as we know it would not exist without microbes. But microbes cannot act alone. They behave both competitively and cooperatively by communicating through an array of chemical signals. Further, many actions performed by microbes require that their populations reach a certain critical mass. When there are only a few individuals, their behaviour is different to when there are many. Research into density-dependent coordinated behaviour - termed ‘quorum sensing’ - has increased exponentially in recent years.
The resistance of plant communities to pests and diseases and tolerance to drought, frost and nutrient deficiencies are strongly influenced by both quorum sensing (QS) and quorum quenching (QQ) in the soil microbiome. QS and QQ also help explain how diverse plant communities are able to function more effectively than monocultures. Researchers have long known there's more than physical complementarity involved - but until recently have not been able to explain how the soil microbial community transforms to a coordinated 'super-organism' once a tipping point - or threshold - in microbial populations has been reached.
               
Please note:This is a private property and working farm. Biosecurity rules apply for the events.  There are restricted parking areas please follow all signs. This is a NO SMOKING event.
 
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