Weed & Walk
Sunday 12th March 2015
Perth, Gnagara
Foraging for Weeds and Greens
August 10th 2017
Woodstone Farm 439 Sydney Road Gnagara
Do you want to know more about the weeds in your garden? Do you spend hours tending, watering and protecting your salad greens in your backyard veggie patch? Did you know many of the weeds you pull out of your garden are not only edible but higher in nutrient than many of the conventional greens growing next to them. In fact they are some of the most nutrient dense foods you can eat, packed full of vitamins, omega- 3 fatty acids, minerals and antioxidants. Many of these so called weeds would have originally been introduced to the Australian landscape for their edible and medicinal properties, some being part of medical traditions that date back over centuries.
Join Steve Aldridge, for 2 days of hands-on knowledge, you will leave this course with an improved ability to recognise, identify and categorised number of different plants that will aid you to continue your search for foraged plants in your own home environments and neighbourhoods.
In this workshop you will learn to identify and how you can use a number of the following plants that grow on the Farm Property:
Leading you through the world of weeds will be Steve Aldrige from Wild Movement Perth. Steve has a passion for learning and researching all that he can about the environment that surrounds him. He has a wealth of knowledge in a variety of areas and his manner of teaching is easy to follow and engaging. His constant search for knowledge and a deeper connection with the natural world is contagious; you cannot help but feel inspired to connect more with the environment around you after having a conversation with Steve.
Steve’s knowledge of foraged foods extends further than the paddocks of Ellenby Tree Farm, Steve has spent the last decade researching a way of life that can feed and sustain him without needing to browse the shelves of the local supermarket. Wild Movement Perth is all about developing a deep connection with nature and ecology. Foraging for wild plant foods is a daily part of Steve’s life most of the greens his family eats on a daily basis are wild greens gathered from our local ecosystem.
About the venue & what do I need to Bring:
The Woodstone Farm property is located in Gnangara within the confines of an established Tree Nursery. Ellenby Tree Farm is a separate business to Woodstone Farm, however the Tree Farm is in the process of converting to organic farming methods. Ellenby currently do not use spray to control the weeds, instead they use slashing and other cultivating techniques and animal systems to grow advanced trees on the Gnangara property. Fortunately this gives us the opportunity to offer a foraging course without the risk of picking chemically sprayed weeds.
This workshop will be very hands on and most of the workshop time will be carried out in the paddocks, so please come prepared and expecting to get your hands dirty.
Woodstone Farm & Ellenby Tree farm are both working farms, and you will therefore need to bring enclosed shoes and practical clothing for a day in the fields. There is limited shelter in the paddocks so please bring hats, raincoats and any other wet or warm weather gear you require.
Getting there and Parking
The address is 439 Sydney Road Gnangara.
By Car:
If you are coming from the Mitchell Freeway take Ocean Reef Road exit and continue east for 10km, take a LEFT turn onto Sydney Road. Follow Sydney road for 4km, DO NOT follow the Ellenby signs onto Stoney road. Instead please continue on Sydney road to 439 Sydney Road Gnangara and park in the WOODSTONE FARM car park.
By Public transport:
Unfortunately on a weekend the farm is 15km from the nearest train station and 5 km from the nearest bus station. Check out the Transperth website for the most up to date details.
The closet Bus Station is STOP: 16055 on Bus Route 352 & 376 from the Mirrabooka Bus Station. See the transperth website for the most up to date details http://www.transperth.wa.gov.au/
What’s included in the course Fee?
The fee includes 2 printed weed guides for the Perth area. You won’t go hungry, morning tea, lunch & afternoon tea will be provided. Vegetarian and vegan options will be available. (please let us know if there are any other dietary requirements we will need to cater for.
How to book?
Sunday 12th March 2015
Perth, Gnagara
Foraging for Weeds and Greens
August 10th 2017
Woodstone Farm 439 Sydney Road Gnagara
Do you want to know more about the weeds in your garden? Do you spend hours tending, watering and protecting your salad greens in your backyard veggie patch? Did you know many of the weeds you pull out of your garden are not only edible but higher in nutrient than many of the conventional greens growing next to them. In fact they are some of the most nutrient dense foods you can eat, packed full of vitamins, omega- 3 fatty acids, minerals and antioxidants. Many of these so called weeds would have originally been introduced to the Australian landscape for their edible and medicinal properties, some being part of medical traditions that date back over centuries.
Join Steve Aldridge, for 2 days of hands-on knowledge, you will leave this course with an improved ability to recognise, identify and categorised number of different plants that will aid you to continue your search for foraged plants in your own home environments and neighbourhoods.
In this workshop you will learn to identify and how you can use a number of the following plants that grow on the Farm Property:
- English Dandelion – Taraxacum Officinale
- Smooth Cats Ear and Flat Weed – Hypochaeris glabra /radicata
- Capeweed – Arctotheca calendula
- Sow Thistle - Sonchus oleraceus
- Sour Sob - Oxalis pes-caprae
- Back Nightshade - Solanum Nigrum
- Chickweed – Stellaria Media
- Purslane (Pigweed) - Portulaca oleracea
- Clovers
- Nut Grass - Oenothera Spp.
- Wild Radish - Raphanus raphanistrum
- Prickly Lettuce – Lactuca Serriola
- Mallow – Cheese Wheel Plant - Malva parviflora
- Fat Hen – Lambs Quarters - Goosefoot – Old King Henry - Chenopodium album
- Cape Gooseberry – Physalis peruviana
- Nasturtium - Tropaeolum majus
- Nettle – Urtica dioica (perennial roots) and Urtica urens(annual)
- Warringal Greens (NZ Spinach)- Tetragonia tetragonioides
- Pigface – Carpobrotus (C. aequilaterus, C. edulis, C. virescens)
- Brazillian Pepper Tree - Schinus terebinthifolius
Leading you through the world of weeds will be Steve Aldrige from Wild Movement Perth. Steve has a passion for learning and researching all that he can about the environment that surrounds him. He has a wealth of knowledge in a variety of areas and his manner of teaching is easy to follow and engaging. His constant search for knowledge and a deeper connection with the natural world is contagious; you cannot help but feel inspired to connect more with the environment around you after having a conversation with Steve.
Steve’s knowledge of foraged foods extends further than the paddocks of Ellenby Tree Farm, Steve has spent the last decade researching a way of life that can feed and sustain him without needing to browse the shelves of the local supermarket. Wild Movement Perth is all about developing a deep connection with nature and ecology. Foraging for wild plant foods is a daily part of Steve’s life most of the greens his family eats on a daily basis are wild greens gathered from our local ecosystem.
About the venue & what do I need to Bring:
The Woodstone Farm property is located in Gnangara within the confines of an established Tree Nursery. Ellenby Tree Farm is a separate business to Woodstone Farm, however the Tree Farm is in the process of converting to organic farming methods. Ellenby currently do not use spray to control the weeds, instead they use slashing and other cultivating techniques and animal systems to grow advanced trees on the Gnangara property. Fortunately this gives us the opportunity to offer a foraging course without the risk of picking chemically sprayed weeds.
This workshop will be very hands on and most of the workshop time will be carried out in the paddocks, so please come prepared and expecting to get your hands dirty.
Woodstone Farm & Ellenby Tree farm are both working farms, and you will therefore need to bring enclosed shoes and practical clothing for a day in the fields. There is limited shelter in the paddocks so please bring hats, raincoats and any other wet or warm weather gear you require.
Getting there and Parking
The address is 439 Sydney Road Gnangara.
By Car:
If you are coming from the Mitchell Freeway take Ocean Reef Road exit and continue east for 10km, take a LEFT turn onto Sydney Road. Follow Sydney road for 4km, DO NOT follow the Ellenby signs onto Stoney road. Instead please continue on Sydney road to 439 Sydney Road Gnangara and park in the WOODSTONE FARM car park.
By Public transport:
Unfortunately on a weekend the farm is 15km from the nearest train station and 5 km from the nearest bus station. Check out the Transperth website for the most up to date details.
The closet Bus Station is STOP: 16055 on Bus Route 352 & 376 from the Mirrabooka Bus Station. See the transperth website for the most up to date details http://www.transperth.wa.gov.au/
What’s included in the course Fee?
The fee includes 2 printed weed guides for the Perth area. You won’t go hungry, morning tea, lunch & afternoon tea will be provided. Vegetarian and vegan options will be available. (please let us know if there are any other dietary requirements we will need to cater for.
How to book?