Canberra City Farm Open Day

We’re celebrating our first ten years at Dairy Road with a gala open day! The gate is open to all with a fun and inspirational community event:

• shop at our stalls
• learn from our workshops and tours
• enjoy the friendly community and meet the organisations that help make the Farm a centre for regenerative urban agriculture.

At midday we’ll be toasting our achievements, thanking the Canberra community for their support, and looking forward to a sustainable and regenerative future where we can all make a difference. We’re also excited to launch our new website and show you our work-in-progress microforest, currently funded by a Nature in the City Grant.

Drop in or stay the whole day. Hear the buzz of bees and people, eat homemade ice-cream, see what’s growing and get your hands dirty. There’s something for everyone!

Provisional workshop program (subject to change)

10.30 am to 12 noon

• We’re making biochar! Fire the retort!
• Make your own native bee hotel – free event, register here
• Green trash-to-treasure in action: hot composting and microbiological brewing

11 am to 12 noon

• Tour the Farm, see our new microforest
• An introduction to saving your own seeds, Canberra Seed Savers
• About the Canberra snake-tracking project, a talk with volunteer trackers from the Farm.

12 noon

10^th birthday celebration, delicious lunch, website launch, speakers, Canberra’s Pop Up Choir

1.30 pm to 2.30 pm

• Setting up a small scale worm farm with Cid Riley from Global Worming
• The 7 reasons of why—your say. Delving into the connections between cultural identity, environmental awareness and inclusivity with the Australian Talented Youth Project
• Storytelling: the first ten years at Dairy Road
• What’s so special about our feijoa orchard? Tour and talk with Mark O’Connor

3 pm – 4 pm

• Tour our ‘sustainable house’, the Low Energy Super Shed
• Children’s gardening project—Little Green Thumbs
• Big orchard tour with Dr Jonathan Banks