Workshops for adults

Bookings are essential for all workshops

Permaculture Design Course (PDC)

NSW Far South Coast Region

coordinated by John Champagne of Brogo Permaculture Gardens.

This course is one of very few remaining full immersion PDC courses that is not online and includes at least 5 site visits.  Coordinated by permaculture elder John Champagne with guest presenter Aaron Sorenson, one of the leading permaculture garden designers in Australia.

Book via Brogo Permaculture Gardens below

Fruit Tree Grafting

The Crossing runs a grafting day for heritage and heirloom fruit trees in mid-August.

For just $30 you can learn all about grafting fruit varieties. Take home a grafted root stock and scion to plant at home, with additional rootstock ($10) and scion ($5) available to purchase on the day.  This workshop always fills fast and is limited to 20.  Click on the button above to save a place for the next one:

South Coast Bird Language Retreat

Although the calls of our native songbirds are unique to every species, they are all infused with distinctive qualities of sound which reveal something meaningful to us about the owner’s mood, intentions, relationships to others and much, much more. This is the basis of learning bird language. It is not essential to know the name of a bird in order to develop an understanding about what it might be saying. The trick is to learn to listen deeply with intention, attunement and enquiry.

At this retreat Andrew The Bird Guy is coming south to show you how.  Over 4 days from 6 to 9 November 2025.

Essentially, Andrew wants to introduce you to the path of the wild naturalist

Firewise Landscapes

Make your landscape more resilient. Firewise Landscapes is a workshop that explains how water retention and landscape management can combine with fire retardant plants to reduce windspeed and radiant heat.

Native retardant plants are a focus of the workshop due to their rapid ability to take up water and their requirement for less water than many introduced plants. Establishment and management of refuge and shelterbelt areas is also highlighted.

Use of additional design strategies to protect refuge areas and homes such as: cool burning, grazing, mowing, and strategic landscape feature location are also discussed and examples are shown on the property tour.

Firewise Landscape Design workshops can be provided with a minimum booking of 14 participants.

Fire Preparation Group

Stay in touch with fire preparation tips, through the Badja Fire Edge Roads Facebook Group, which is for sharing local fire-preparedness info and related workshops for Bermagui, Cobargo, Murrah, Tanja, Wallaga, Dignams, Quaama, Verona, Brogo, Yowrie, Wandella and Tinpot.