WHAT WILL CLIMATE SMART FUTURE HOMES AND FARMS
LOOK LIKE AND WHAT WILL WE HAVE TO DO TO GET THERE?
Climate Smart Future homes and farms online, in person workshops and video resources are designed to educate, inspire and empower people to reduce the impacts of climate change by making changes to their lifestyle, homes and farms. We show how local people are adapting, bringing individuals, groups and organisations together to share information and build community resilience so successful, supported adaptation can take place.
Future Homes and Farms workshops started in 2014 as annual, seasonal sessions designed to help reduce impacts and live a lighter in our world. With initial funding from Bass Coast Shire Council, additional contributions in 2020-2021 from Victorian Government Department of Environment, Land, Water and Planning, and now funding from Bass Coast Shire Council's Environmental Partnership Program, we can continue to offer this engaging series over three workshops in 2026.
Check this page for upcoming workshops, videos of previous workshops, tour sites and zoom events, that will give you fantastic forays into individual homes, gardens and farms, to showcase what our innovators and early adopters are doing, and learn how you can too.
Future Homes and Farms workshops started in 2014 as annual, seasonal sessions designed to help reduce impacts and live a lighter in our world. With initial funding from Bass Coast Shire Council, additional contributions in 2020-2021 from Victorian Government Department of Environment, Land, Water and Planning, and now funding from Bass Coast Shire Council's Environmental Partnership Program, we can continue to offer this engaging series over three workshops in 2026.
Check this page for upcoming workshops, videos of previous workshops, tour sites and zoom events, that will give you fantastic forays into individual homes, gardens and farms, to showcase what our innovators and early adopters are doing, and learn how you can too.
Upcoming Events - 2026 series
Climate smart future homes and farms
Practical, hopeful workshops combining local tours and hands-on learning to help you make your home, garden or farm more resilient.
Hear from leading experts and locals already doing it, take home ideas you can use straight away,
and connect with others creating climate-smart change in Bass Coast.
Hear from leading experts and locals already doing it, take home ideas you can use straight away,
and connect with others creating climate-smart change in Bass Coast.
Hear from Moragh Mackay, Mycelia Collective on ‘Mindfully shifting to a regenerative economy’, be part of hands-on sessions by Rick Coleman, Southern Cross Permaculture Institute on ‘Finding practical, rewarding solutions to the world’s problems’ (think fertiliser, water resilience, composting and more..), and Lisa Wangman from Bass Coast Landcare network on ‘Building resilience through Seed saving at the River Garden’ and a bus tour to local properties putting this topic into practice.
Date/Time: Sunday the 14th of June, 10.00 to 3.30pm RSVP click here: https://www.trybooking.com/DMJGQ Take home kit - Free open pollinated seed and composting materials for each participant |
Hear from our keynote speaker Chris Allenson, respected Soil Scientist, Agronomist and Author of 'Deep Time – And the implications for a Sustainable Agriculture' presenting on ‘Applying organic systems and regenerative agriculture on small properties’, and Joel Geoghegan, Sustainable Agriculture Team Leader from Bass Coast Landcare Network on ‘Regenerative Agriculture resources, information and training opportunities’ and a bus tour to local properties putting this topic into practice.
Date/Time: Saturday the 27th of June, 10.00 to 3.30pm RSVP click here: https://www.trybooking.com/DMJHB Take home kit - Free open pollinated seed and fertilisers for each participant |
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Hear from Ecologist Dr Helen Corney from Gardens for Wildlife Victoria on ways to enhance your garden for local wildlife, and Lisa Wangman, Education, Training and Communications Manager from Bass Coast Landcare Network on the many ways of using Indigenous plants for in your garden before heading out on a tour to the River Garden and then hopping on a bus to beautiful local properties to talk to landholders putting this topic into practice.
Date/Time: Saturday 18th of July, 10am to 3.30pm RSVP click here: https://www.trybooking.com/DMUCF Take home kit - Free indigenous plants for each participant |
