EVENTS 2020
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WINTER EVENTS 2019
Soil Health Workshop
Saturday June 15th, 9:00—12:30 at a property in Loch (address provided later)
Learn from Gerhard Grasser, a passionate advocate and educator for creating healthier soils. Combines theory with outdoor practice, turning compost into compost tea. Also see soil life under the microscope. Cost $35, includes morning tea. Tickets available from Eventbrite now.
Cheese Making Workshop with Chris Millane
Saturday June 22 from 12.00 pm to 5.00 pm
Learn to make delicious feta and cream cheese from fresh local milk. There is nothing as tasty or as satisfying as making your own cheese and bread! It is also not as hard as you think!
Christine will take you through the step by step process of making each cheese in this hands on workshop, and you will take home your cheese, plus cheese moulds to make your next batch at home.
We will enjoy an afternoon tea of cheese, biscuits and sourdough bread, tea and coffee.
Cost $85, includes afternoon tea and cheese, moulds and notes to take home. Tickets available here.
An email will be send to all attendees a week before the workshop to advise what to bring.
Cooking class – Soups
Thursday July 18 from 1 till 3.30 pm
In this cooking class you will be learning to make soups. Cost includes materials, recipe handouts, and a meal for 4 to take home for dinner. The venue is the the Grow Lightly Hub (near the playground at the Coal Creek Carpark) Silkstone Rd, Korumurra. Cost is $55 includes afternoon tea and an evening meal to take home. Tickets available from Eventbrite now.
Family Cooking Class – a 2 course meal
Saturday July 27 2019 from 2:00 pm – 4:00 pm
We are so excited to be offering this family cooking class, for an adult with a child aged 8 – 13 to do together. Gay, with years of school teaching experience, will guide both adults and children to cook together to make a main and dessert to take home with them.
Places are limited with only 6 adult/child tickets available (1 ticket is for both the adult and child). Adults must agree to take full responsibility for supervising their child.
Afternoon tea will be served.
An email giving more information about what to bring will be sent a few days before the workshop. Tickets are available from Eventbrite here,
Cooking Class – Casseroles
Thursday August 18 from 1 till 3.30 pm
In this cooking class you will be learning to make casseroles. Cost includes materials, recipe handouts, and a meal for 4 to take home for dinner. The venue is the the Grow Lightly Hub (near the playground at the Coal Creek Carpark) Silkstone Rd, Korumurra. Cost is $55 includes afternoon tea and an evening meal to take home. Tickets available soon.
Helping our Kids to Eat and Love Vegies
Thursday August 15th, 1:30—3:00The idea for this workshop is straight from the heart of Aiko, a Grow Lightly volunteer who is passionate about cooking healthy meals for her grandchildren. She will share her wisdom and ideas, with the invitation for all participants to encourage one another with stories, recipes and ideas of how to make vegetables more appealing to the children in our lives.
Afternoon tea will be provided.
Cost $15, includes afternoon tea and recipes. Tickets available now.
Cooking with children from 8 to 13
Our first family format cooking class, with children 8—13 welcome, at the Grow Lightly Hub. See below for how to book. Tickets available soon.
Bookings essential – find a link to each event via http://www.growlightly.com.au, search Eventbrite or register in person at the Grow Lightly Green Grocer, 25 Commercial Street, Korumburra
Grow Lightly Book Club
First Tuesday of every month at 7pm—at the Grow Lightly Hub
Bring a book to talk about or just come and join in for some
reading inspiration. No booking required
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PAST EVENTS…..
Cooking class – Curries
Thursday June 6 from 1pm till 3.30 pm
In this cooking class you will be learning to make curries.
What are the benefits of a good curry? As well as being delicious and beautifully warming, did you know that a curry boosts your immune system? Also curries may help to prevent Alzheimer’s…and cancer. A curry is good for your heart and can help ease digestion. There is also evidence that curry helps lower your cholesterol and boost your metabolism.
Cost includes materials, recipe handouts, and a meal for 4 to take home for dinner. The venue is the the Grow Lightly Hub (near the playground at the Coal Creek Carpark) Silkstone Rd, Korumurra. Early bird ticket cost is $55 which includes afternoon tea and an evening meal to take home. Tickets available from Eventbrite now.
May Book Club
On Tuesday May 7 come to Grow Lightly Hub (near the Coal Creek Car Park) and meet like minded people for a lively and refreshing discussion. The book club is always on the first Tuesday of the month, every month. It will be friendly and informal and we hope you will leave nourished and inspired. Bring a favourite book on farming, food, gardening, sustainability, environment, or anything really, to share briefly why you enjoyed it, what you learned, how it has impacted aspects of your life. There will be no pressure to speak and you are welcome to just come to listen. If you have a copy of Retrosuburbia by David Holmgren please bring it. If you don’t have one there is one you can borrow. Or it is available from the Korumburra Library.
7.00 pm Venue: the food hub at 12A Silkstone Rd, Korumburra. Please park in Coal Creek Carpark. Gold coin donation
Cooking Class: Pies
Thursday, May 2, 2019, 1:30 PM
Do you want to learn to make easy, tasty and healthy meals, for your family, on a budget?
Then our 2019 home cooking series is for YOU!
Learn to make delicious meals for your family using fresh seasonal produce. Our 2 hour monthly classes will cover stir fries, curries, casseroles, soups, quiches and tarts, pasta bakes, homemade hamburgers and sausage rolls, and pies. These recipes are budget friendly, healthy, and most can be frozen or made in advance to help with a busy lifestyle.
These classes will be aimed at beginner level, but people of all cooking abilities are welcome to come. Come to one, a few, or all classes.
In this cooking class you will be learning to make pies.
Cost includes materials, recipe handouts, and a meal for 4 to take home for dinner.
An email will be sent to attendees in the week before the class to let you know what to bring (eg. apron, container to transport your meal home, etc)
Venue: Grow Lightly Food Hub, 12a Silkstone Road, Korumburra, VIC (near Coal Creek Carpark)
Tickets from Eventbrite
Making advanced Microbial Compost
Saturday, May 4, 2019, 9:00 AM
Join us for this workshop as we learn all about making high quality compost from Gerhard Grasser. Gerhard has devoted his life to promoting and teaching a structured holistic approach to soil health management. Over the morning you will learn:
- Why ‘compost’ isn’t always compost – the differences
- Unique features and benefits of custom made compost
- About the microbial army in compost to help improve soil and plant health
- Looking under the microscope at compost life
- Guiding participants in actual compost making
Morning tea will be provided, as well as notes to take home.
Venue: A property in Loch, address will be emailed before event
Tickets from Eventbrite
Cooking Class – Quiches and Tarts
Thursday, March 7, 2019 from 1:30 PM – 3:30 PM
Do you want to learn to make easy, tasty and healthy meals, for your family, on a budget?
Then our 2019 home cooking series is for YOU!
Learn to make delicious meals for your family using fresh seasonal produce. Our 2 hour monthly classes will cover stir fries, curries, casseroles, soups, quiches and tarts, pasta bakes, homemade hamburgers and sausage rolls, and pies. These recipes are budget friendly, healthy, and most can be frozen or made in advance to help with a busy lifestyle.
These classes will be aimed at beginner level, but people of all cooking abilities are welcome to come. Come to one, a few, or all classes.
In this cooking class you will be learning to make quiches and tarts.
Cost includes materials, recipe handouts, and a meal for 4 to take home for dinner.
Note that for safety reasons, we are sorry, but no children please.
An email will be sent to attendees in the week before the class to let you know what to bring (eg. apron, container to transport your meal home, etc)
Cost $45
Get your tickets here