Workshops and Demonstrations
The Off-Grid Living Festival is an interactive festival. To make the most of your event weekend, be sure to browse the workshops/demos program and schedule in some hands-on experiences.
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Some workshops can be pre-booked online and others you can book in with the workshop host on the day. If it's something you're super keen on, be sure to book in early in case your favourite workshops get booked out.
Feature Paid Workshops
Whole Animal Butchering
SATURDAY 10.00 - 11.30am
Watch & Learn Demonstration
Qualified trade butcher and experienced teacher Brent Ibrom, will demonstrate the breakdown of a whole pig carcass - you will be guided through the individual muscle groups, and in the process he will highlight which parts of the animal you use to make bacon, what goes into sausages and where to find the best roasting pieces.
Time permitting Brent will also be more than happy to give attendees an overview of the basic equipment requirements and best practices required to successfully butcher your own meat at home.
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Host: Brent Ibrom, My Slice of Life
The My Slice of Life team from Wangaratta specialise in all things butchering, preserving and brewing. Learn from the best at these festival workshops.
Location: Homesteading Tent
Price: $35.00
Booking: PRE-BOOK HERE
Or Book with Host at Festival (note this workshop tends to sell-out, pre-booking recommended)
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Sausage Making
SATURDAY 11.45-12.45pm
Watch & Learn Demonstration
Have you ever wanted to learn the art of making a butcher quality snag? Or why the Italians and Spanish make such great sausages? In this class My Slice of Life will answer all these questions and more.
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Brent Ibrom, a qualified trade butcher and experienced teacher, will host the class, taking guests through the sausage making process; including the best cuts of meat to use, how to grind meat, which herbs and seasonings to use, and then finally how to fill natural sausage casings and link them like a professional.
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Host: Brent Ibrom, My Slice of Life
The My Slice of Life team from Wangaratta specialise in all things butchering, preserving and brewing. Learn from the best at these festival workshops.
Location: Homesteading Tent
Price: $35.00
Booking: PRE-BOOK HERE
Or Book with Host at Festival (note this workshop tends to sell-out, pre-booking recommended)
Salami Making
SUNDAY 10.00-11.00am
Watch & Learn Demonstration
Making your own homemade salami can seem a little daunting, but in reality this art has been practiced in backyards all over the world for 100's of years and when you get a handle on the basic principals you too will have what it takes to join the 'salami army'.
Brent Ibrom, a qualified trade butcher and experienced teacher, heads up the class. He will introduce you to a variety of specialist supplies, equipment and machinery that are needed to produce quality salami, simply and efficiently today, while still maintaining an authentic and traditional approach to the methods involved in the process.
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This class will cover all the basic principals of salami making; it will be best suited to a complete novice or inexperienced salami maker wanting re-assurance they are on the right path. Brent will demonstrate how to bone out a Forequarter of pork and the process required to turn the meat into salami.
You will learn the correct ways to prepare and process your meat, blend recipes, casing selection and preparations, as well as the all-important curing process. We will also have salami making equipment for sale at the festival and can guide you on what items would be best to get you started at home.
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Host: Brent Ibrom, My Slice of Life
The My Slice of Life team from Wangaratta specialise in all things butchering, preserving and brewing. Learn from the best at these festival workshops.
Location: Homesteading Tent
Price: $35.00
Booking: PRE-BOOK HERE
Or Book with Host at Festival (note this workshop tends to sell-out, pre-booking recommended)
Bacon & Kabana Making
SUNDAY 11.00-12.00pm
Watch & Learn Demonstration
Are you sick of the same old, bland store bought bacon and kabana and have a craving for something more? Do you want to learn the art and intricacy of curing that will turn that raw pork belly into delicious salty bacon or drool worthy sweet chili chicken kabana? My Slice of Life is the place to “cure” your cravings with our Makin Bacon & Kabana Workshop.
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Led by qualified trade butcher and experienced teacher Brent Ibrom, this class will cover all things cured & smoked. Brent will walk participants through the process of making bacon and kabana from start to finish, including meat selection, seasoning and the all-important scientific method of curing your meats and then smoking the product.
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Brent can also take you through the best equipment to purchase to get started at home.
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Host: Brent Ibrom, My Slice of Life
The My Slice of Life team from Wangaratta specialise in all things butchering, preserving and brewing. Learn from the best at these festival workshops.
Location: Homesteading Tent
Price: $35.00
Booking: PRE-BOOK HERE
Or Book with Host at Festival (note this workshop tends to sell-out, pre-booking recommended)
Sourdough Bread Making
SATURDAY 1.00-2.00pm
This interactive Sourdough Masterclass Information and Demonstration session will teach you everything you need to know to start baking artisan sourdough bread at home.
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We will cover everything from creating your own starter, maintaining your starter, stretch and folds, shaping, scoring and baking.
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We will demonstrate how to make your own sourdough starter, mix your own sourdough dough, perform sets of pulls and folds and score your dough.
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What's included-
Full theory and practical knowledge to get started on your sourdough bread baking journey. Theory and demonstration on how to make your own sourdough starter. Full sourdough starter recipe and instructions. Full sourdough bread recipe and instructions. Watch us demonstrate every step of the sourdough bread making process from mixing, stretch and folds, shaping and scoring. So you have full practical, knowledge to go home and get baking. A workbook containing everything covered in class, along with some great recipes to get you started.
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Host: Kirsty Bertè, Permaculture Hawkesbury Valley Inc
Kirsty Berte, founder of Veggie Barter Australia and affiliate of Permaculture Hawkesbury Valley Inc. She is a wealth of knowledge in sustainability skills and is particularly passionate about food security.
Location: Homesteading Tent
Price: $35.00
Booking: Pre-booking essential for this one.
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Intro to Home Canning & Preserving
SATURDAY 3.00-5.00pm
This workshop will consist of a presentation and hands-on canning session in which participants will have the opportunity to make preserves using local, seasonal ingredients.
Registration includes all supplies and participants will take home a jar of their own preserve. Along with a booklet containing everything covered in class. Whilst we will cover the many tips and tricks of preserving a variety of food, in this particular workshop we will be pressure canning carrots. Waterbath canning of high acid foods will also be demonstrated.
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Host: Kirsty Bertè, Permaculture Hawkesbury Valley Inc
Kirsty Berte, founder of Veggie Barter Australia and affiliate of Permaculture Hawkesbury Valley Inc. She is a wealth of knowledge in sustainability skills and is particularly passionate about food security.
Location: Homesteading Tent
Price: $60.00
Booking: Pre-booking essential for this one.
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Making Sauerkraut, Kimchi & Kvass
SUNDAY 12.15-2.15pm
Discover the incredible, nutritious and healing world of fermented foods in this fun hands-on workshop. Improve and maintain your gut health through fermented foods and add a new culinary aspect to your diet.
You will Learn:
-How to make a tasty sauerkraut easily and affordably at home
-How to make a delicious and nutritious kimchi
-How to make beet kvass super quick and easy
You will also receive -
-Tips and inspiration to incorporate different ingredients and keep your fermented foods fun and interesting
-A booklet containing everything covered in class and recipes to try at home
-Each participant will make and take home a jar of sauerkraut
-Tips and ideas on how to eat fermented foods
-Life-long skills to get fermenting at home
-Taste testing of some delicious ferments
Note - Please bring a 1L jar with lid along with you to take your sauerkraut home in.
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Host: Kirsty Bertè, Permaculture Hawkesbury Valley Inc
Kirsty Berte, founder of Veggie Barter Australia and affiliate of Permaculture Hawkesbury Valley Inc. She is a wealth of knowledge in sustainability skills and is particularly passionate about food security.
Location: Homesteading Tent
Price: $60.00
Booking: Pre-booking essential for this one.
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Brew Kombucha at Home
SUNDAY 2.30-3.45pm
Learn how to brew your own kombucha from the masters at The Good Brew Company. Plus, receive your own kombucha SCOBY starter kit to create your own brew.
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Host: Dean O'Callaghan - Good Brew Company
Dean O’Callaghan (aka Deano Goodbrew) is an ecopreneur and CEO and Abundance Generator for The Good Brew Company, which specialises in the sustainable brewing of living probiotic beverages using solar power, spring water and certified organic ingredients.
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Price: $53.95 (includes a scoby starter pack and brew bible)
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Booking: PRE-BOOK HERE
or BOOK WITH GOOD BREW CO at the festival
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Planning & Designing your Off-Grid Life
SUNDAY 2.00 - 3.30pm
Dreaming of your own off-grid property? Don't know what kind of land to find, or what you'll need to get going? This is the workshop for you! Good projects start with great planning and learning from those who have done it before and can offer lived experience! This workshop gives you a solid foundation and will delve into your ideas and dreams about off-grid living and how to make it a reality. It will cover planning and building steps, site selection and design, natural building ideas and alternative technology systems you could incorporate!
It will also be investigating a range of issues, hurdles and elements in practice, with real life examples and plenty of fantastic advice to help you on your journey. Bringing together a wide variety of experiences and stories that we can all learn from, this is sure to be an engaging and stimulating workshop that you must attend at this year's festival if you want to turn your dreams into some kind of reality.
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Host: Dr Rachel Goldlust - PHD environmental values embodied by moving off-grid and Founder of Natural Building Australia.
Rachel Goldlust is a recent PhD graduate in history at Latrobe University studying the environmental values embodied by moving off-grid. With a background in planning, sustainable housing and environmental education, Rachel is interested in ex-urban migration, sustainable lifestyles and design, community and co-operative living systems, gender, labour and domesticity, permaculture, political and social history and environmental thought and action in 20th Century Australia.
Location: Natural Building Tent
Price: $30.00 - 45.00
Booking: PRE-BOOK HERE
Or with host at the Natural Building Tent
The Wise Woman Broomstick Workshop
SATURDAY 2.00 - 3.30pm
SUNDAY 11.00-12.30pm
Create your very own wise woman broomstick made of all nature. These can be hung on the wall to represent the wise woman that you are and welcome in positive energy into your home and protection.
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As a symbol of being a "witch" which truly means "wise woman", this workshop is for those that would love to create their very own broomstick to hang in their home/other space to express their inner wise woman.
Made with real wood, beautiful foliage, flowers and other natural materials, this workshop will start with an intention, followed by a meditation before creating your forever wise woman keepsake.
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Festival special price at $50 off.
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Host: Tina West, Art by Tina West
Tina began her holistic journey at the very young age of 20. After a very traumatic childhood and harsh adolescence, Tina knew that life could take her two ways and she chose the route of self discovery and healing. Choosing this path has shown her that growth is a never ending journey, and even though the journey is not always a bowl of cherries, the amazing benefits of working on yourself to achieve little and big goals is both motivating and life changing and this is what guided her to helping others heal from their trauma's to live a best possible life.
Creating is another of her passions, and Tina has been selling her artworks for over 5 years specialising in creating artworks using real nature. Tina will be offering art workshops for those who want to learn how to use intuition and energy when creating their very own piece of art.
Location: The Lotus Birth Kits/Art By Tina West Stall
Price: $100
Booking:
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Fire by Friction
SATURDAY & SUNDAY 10.30-12.00 pm
Learn to make fire the way our land based ancestors did using only what nature provides. During this workshop you will learn various natural materials that can be used to make a fire kit and be able to learn the Hand Drill method of fire by friction. You will get a taste of the science behind this ancient skill yet also the practical experience!
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Host: Eva Angophora, Wild Beings
Location: At Wild Being's stall
Price: $20.00
Booking: No booking required
Wild Foods & Medicine
SUNDAY 1.00pm -.2.00pm
Learn the basics of foraging wild weeds and how to incorporate them into every day living through food and medicine. Try a foraged bush tea.
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Host: Eva Angophora, Wild Beings
Location: At host's stall
Price: $20.00
Booking: No booking required
Making Natural Cordage with Plant Fibre
SUNDAY 2.30 - 3.30pm
Learn to make 2 ply natural cordage/string with processed plant fibre. We will also go into what plants can be used and the process of harvesting the bark into making long lasting durable cordage.
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Host: Eva Angophora, Wild Beings
Location: At host's stall
Price: $20.00
Booking: No booking required
Survival Series
SATURDAY & SUNDAY - Visit stall for info
Come down to the A.S.I stand and check out our Survival Skills series of workshops. We're still working on the full program now, but look forward to offering you some incredible workshops at the festival.
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Host: Aussie Survival Instructors Team
Location: Aussie Survival Instructors stall
Price: Various
Booking: No booking required - limited spaces, first in best dressed.
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Old School Blacksmithing - Hands On
ONGOING ALL WEEKEND - BUT SPACE LIMITED
This is an amazing opportunity to work with a Blacksmith 'one on one'. Learn to craft metal the old school way, using a hand crank blower and charcoal forge.
Students can make their own Roman fire steels or 'S' hooks, under the guidance of professional blacksmith and engineer, Zac Nast. These will be running continually, for the entire festival. An hours tuition, with whatever project they decide to make.
They can also buy items directly from our table, such as forged knives, Roman fire steels, 'S' hooks, hot cut chisels etc
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Host: Zac Nast, Professional blacksmith and engineer
Location: Aussie Survival Instructors stall
Price: $95.00
Booking: Because these are one on one session space are limited, visit the host when you arrive to pre-book a time.
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Raffia Basket
SATURDAY & SUNDAY (MULTIPLE TIMES) - 45min workshop
11.00am, 1.00pm, 3.00pm
An introduction to Coiled Baskets includes starter kit, raffia & needle.
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Learn the art of basket coiling using beautiful hand-dyed raffia! Janet is the Creative Director at The Raffia Connection and has been teaching Art & Craft in a primary school setting for many years, as well as sharing the art of basket coiling at fibre events and markets around Melbourne.
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Suitable for beginners, you will learn how to create a small trinket basket or coaster using the blanket stitch technique.
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Only 10 places available in each workshop.
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Host: Janet Troy, The Raffia Connection
Location: The Raffia Connection stall
Price: $30.00
Booking: PRE-BOOK HERE
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Ink Making & Carved tools drawing
SATURDAY 9.30 -10.30am
Participants will be making their own natural ink, carving drawing tools to draw with, then creating an artwork with their handmade tools.
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All material supplied and take home ink and tools.
All ages welcome (children under 12 to be accompanied/assisted by parent)
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Host: Linda, RiverArts
Location: At RiverArts stall
Price: $25.00
Booking: PRE-BOOK or book with host on the day
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Charcoal Drawing
SUNDAY 9.30 -10.30am
Participants will be taught how to use charcoal sticks to create an A2 size Highland Cow drawing.
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All material supplied and take home ink and tools.
All ages welcome (children under 12 to be accompanied/assisted by parent)
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Host: Linda, RiverArts
Location: At RiverArts stall
Price: $25.00
Booking: PRE-BOOK or book with host on the day
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Crystal Wrapping
SATURDAY & SUNDAY 2.00-3.00pm
Learn the meditative and rewarding art of wrapping your own crystal necklace. Be guided through a short meditation and learn all the skills you need to take home your own necklace.
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Includes 2 x crystals and 2 sets of string so you can make another at home!
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Host: Milla - The Chrysalis Effect
Location: The Chrysalis Effect stall
Price: $50.00
Booking: Book with host on the day - limited spaces.
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Dreamcatcher Weaving
SATURDAY & SUNDAY 10.00am - 12.00pm
During this 2hr Workshop we will through each stage of dreamcatcher creation. Come along and create your own small dreamcatcher from found material on Dja Dja Wurrung Country. You are most welcome to bring own special feathers, stones or trinkets to add to your unique creation
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Limited space. (5 spots only)
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Host: Samantha Luckhurst, Bohemian Gatherer
Location: Bohemian Gatherer stall
Price: $25.00
Booking: Book with host on the day - limited spaces.
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Slow Stitch
SATURDAY & SUNDAY - 10:30am or 2:30pm (1 hour duration)
Use colourful cotton threads and naturally dyed Ajrakh block prints to create your own patch pocket. Learn some basic stitches to decorate and embellish it, then turn it into something useful - a mending patch, a pocket, a book cover. Or just let the creative juices flow and create your own textile artwork.
All you need is the ability to thread a needle, everything else is supplied.
These stitches can then be used anywhere that needs some embellishment or repair. You will get a kit with threads to get you started :)
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Skill or Age- be able to learn to thread a needle, limit of 6 per session.
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Host: Deb Parker
Location: Havally stall
Price: $30.00
Booking: Book at stall
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Hand Dipped Candles workshops
SATURDAY & SUNDAY 2.00-5.00PM
Learn the art of hand dipping your own natural beeswax candles.
Ages 10+
Host: Petite Tapers
Location: At Stall
Price:
$22 for a set 10 tiny tapers
$33 for set of 2 dinner candles,
$55 for a longer more in depth creative candle making workshop
Booking: No Booking Required
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Intentional Candle Making Workshop
SATURDAY & SUNDAY 3.00PM
Join us for a unique indepth workshop on Hand Dipped Beeswax Candles. Learn how to create candles with intention, using natural beeswax in a range of colours. This hands-on experience will guide you through the process of making your own personalised tapered candles. Whether you're looking to set intentions, mark a special occasion, or enhance your rituals, these candles will add a special touch to your off-grid lifestyle. Don't miss out on this creative and magickal workshop! Ages 10+
Host: Petite Tapers
Location: At Stall
Price: $53.72
Booking: PRE-BOOK HERE - SATURDAY
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Bees Wax Candle Rolling
SATURDAY & SUNDAY 12.00-2.00PM
Enjoy the beauty of rolling your own bees wax candles.
Hand rolled beeswax candles 12-2pm Ages 5+
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Host: Petite Tapers
Location: At Stall
Price: Various
Booking: No Booking Required
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Natural Dying Workshop
SATURDAY - 11.00am and 2.00pm Session runs for 60 minutes
We will mindfully explore the colour opportunities of various leaves, flowers and foods on natural fabrics (bags or bandannas) to create an eco-friendly, one-of-a-kind botanical slow fashion artwork to take home and cherish.
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Host: Oshala Earthforms
Location: Oshala Earthforms Stall
Price: $20.00
Booking: Book at stall
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Natural Incense Making
SATURDAY 2.30 - 4.00pm
SUNDAY 11.00am - 12.30pm
Learn the ancient art of incense crafting through using botanicals which grow in your garden or bioregional landscape. This hands on workshop will teach you the basics of how to roll and shape incense sticks and cones and the materials needed to create a successful & pleasant incense. All materials will be provided and you will have the opportunity to take your own incense home with you.
Please bring a secure container with you to carry your incense in. A lunch box sized container is ideal.
Host: Carmen Nemet - Lulani Moon
Location: Lulani Moon Stall
Price: $25.00
Booking: Book at stall
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Homeopathy FIRST AID
SATURDAY & SUNDAY 11:30 or 1:30 -(1 hour)
Take control of your health and know exactly what to do in First Aid emergencies.
Learn how to treat everyday ailments such as: stings, insect bites, food poisoning, stomach aches, nausea, falls, cuts, puncture wounds, burns, heat stroke, sunburns, colds and flus, coughs, mastitis, colic, teething, conjunctivitis, ear infections, rashes, fever, allergic reactions, tooth pain, fungal infections, sprains, strains, headaches, hay fever, indigestion, cold sores, bladder infections and more. As a qualified Homeopath with 9 years experience under my belt, I will guide you through the fundamentals of homeopathy and empower you for when First Aid situations arise. This knowledge is absolutely essential when going OFF-GRID. Perfect for mothers or ANYONE wanting to empower themselves for first aid situations.
HOST: Jessica Goh, Integrative Wellness
Jessica is a qualified Homeopath with 9 years experience, specialising in running Homeopathy for First Aid workshops both in-person and online.
Host: Jessica Goh, Integrative Wellness
Location: Homeopathy for First Aid Stall
Price: $35.00
Booking: PRE-BOOK HERE
or Book at stall
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Worm Farm Make & Take
SATURDAY 1.00-1.30pm
Learn how to make your own worm farm from a poly box to take home.
Includes worms.
6 places only.
Free to watch.
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Host: Natasha Stafford
Location: Beingreen Permaculture stall
Price: $25.00
Booking: Book with host on the day - limited spaces.
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Permaculture Speed Consultations
SATURDAY & SUNDAY - Every half hour between 9.30am & 4pm
20 minute consultations with David Arnold
Use your session to discuss particular design issues, or general problem solving/design approach for your property or project.
If possible, bring photos, maps, or plans of your house/ garden or project so David can best understand your situation and help you. Mobile phone data is likely to be overwhelmed by the festival, don't rely on using online maps to show him your place, bring prints.
Host: David Arnold, Permaculture Educator
Location: At Murrnong Farm stall, site 160
Price: $45.00
Booking: PRE-BOOK HERE, or book at stall
Mushroom Glazing
SATURDAY 1.30-2.30PM
Join us for a creative ceramic experience! Select from our array of bisque-fired mugs, then immerse yourself in the art of glazing with provided tools and guidance. Learn the intricacies of mixing glazes or painting your masterpiece. Afterward, leave your creation with us to undergo a second firing, and we'll ship the finished, personalised mug directly to you.
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Spots: 10 mugs for each day
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Host: Moon's Clayground
Location: Moon's Clayground stall
Price: $90
Booking: Book at stall on the day
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Intro to Gold Panning
ONGOING ALL WEEKEND
A basic rundown of techniques and equipment to easily extract gold from a gold bearing creek, river or ground. A hands on experience in the amazing Finders Keepers "creek on wheels!"
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Suitable for all ages! And lots of fun.
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Host: Finders Keepers
Location: Finders Keepers stall
Price: $25 per experience.
Booking: No Booking Required
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Kids Fun - Gold Panning
ONGOING ALL WEEKEND
Ages 0 -6 years only.
All other ages sign up for gold panning experience.
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Host: Finders Keepers
Location: Finders Keepers stall
Price: $0.00
Booking: Book at stall
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ToolSchool: Home Handywomans Intro to Tools
SATURDAY & SUNDAY 4:00 - 5:00PM
If you're a woman, you may have traditionally felt excluded from exposure, practice and confidence in using tools. D-I-Y skills support a self sufficient lifestyle, but perhaps you just don't know where to begin! This Basic Intro to Tools workshop will empower and upskill women to handle home handywoman tasks themselves by getting hands-on and armed with info. No such thing as a silly question here! In our hour of power together, I'll provide an overview of the safe and proper use of some key tools for around the home, introduce you to a few more, get you on the tools to have a go, and importantly, set you on your journey towards competence in simple home maintenance tasks. A no-shame, female friendly, small group workshop.
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Host: Sam Kurikawa - She Bangs ToolSchool
Location: Natural Building Tent
Price: $70.00
Booking: Book at stall
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DIY Reno Skills: Caulking - Tiling - Basic Home Repairs
SATURDAY & SUNDAY - Throughout the day (40mins)
Join Head Banger, Sam, for demonstrations of these common home D-I-Y tasks. Providing easy to understand info - and starting with the basics which require no prior knowledge - plus an opportunity to apply what you've learned, Sam will demystify the tools, products and techniques to give women like you the confidence and ability to try them at home.
Designed specially for beginners, these female-friendly, hands-on demonstrations can cater to 4 women each session. Be sure to book in quick on the day!
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Host: Sam Kurikawa - She Bangs ToolSchool
Location: She Bangs ToolSchool stall
Price: $35.00
Booking: Book at stall
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Barala Incense Making
SATURDAY & SUNDAY - 11.00-11.45am
Experience the power of Barala incense: a natural remedy for asthma and energy purification. Make your own to take home.
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Host: Walibirri Medijin Arts
Location: Walibirri Medijin Arts stall
Price: $35.00
Booking: Book at stall
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Macrame Crystal Necklace Making
SATURDAY & SUNDAY - 11:00am & 2.30pm
Learn from home schooled kids, Jordan and Evalyn, to create your very own macrame crystal necklace. Learn about the crystal you’re working with and keep it close, to harness its energy. Includes waxed macrame cord, crystal and beads. Maximum of 5 people per session and for ages 10+, parental guidance may be required for younger kids.
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Host: Good For You - Homeschoolers
Location: Good For You - Homeschoolers stall
Price: $20.00
Booking: Book at stall
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Kokedama Making Workshop
SATURDAY & SUNDAY - Starting every hour 10.00 - 3.00
Join Cirque du Soil in their immersive GrowGood Circular plant workshop and get down and dirty with the art of the Kokedama. Loosely translated, ‘koke’ means moss and ‘dama’ means ball.
BYO small to medium house plant or purchase one on the day.
During this hands-on workshop, we’ll provide you with all the materials to craft up your very own personalised kokedama to take home, featuring our proprietary circular potting mix made from urban food waste recovered from Melbourne precincts. All materials used in the workshop are locally sourced, upcycled or fully compostable.
For those who prefer a pot, we’ll also be offering a limited series mycelium pot, grown by one of our circular partners, Fungi Solutions. BYO plant + urban food waste.
Various pricing options upon booking.
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Host: Cirque Du Soil
Location: Cirque Du Soil Stall
Price: $45-$65
Booking: PREBOOK HERE
Wooden Toy Making
ONGOING ALL WEEKEND
When we're at a festival, we offer a Sword personalisation workshop where participants can choose an Imaginary Adventure tool from our range then proceed through 5-6 step process of finishing off the item. Choose your adventure and pay on the day.
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Host: Schloss Toys
Location: Schloss Toys Stall
Price: Various
Booking: No booking required
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Animal Petting Nursery
ONGOING ALL WEEKEND
Witness the joy on children's face as they get to meet and pat some of their favourite animals. Rabbits, Guinea Pigs, Ducks, Chicks, Miniature Goats and more!
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Host: Hay Ho Animal Nursery
Location: Hay Ho Animal Nursery
Price: $5-10
Booking: No booking required
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Goats Cheese Making
SATURDAY 2.30
SUNDAY 10:30 & 2:30
Imagine learning the art of organic goat farming and cheese making while getting up close and personal with our friendly goats. We'll be hosting a talk followed by a Q&A session on chemical-free goat rearing. There will be also a home cheese making demo where we will be sharing tips and tricks on how to make your own delicious cheese at home.
Come visit us at our stall to sign up for the cheesemaking demo, taste our cheese and cuddle a goat while you are here!
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Host: Little Cedar Farmhouse Goat Cheese
Location: Little Cedar Farmhouse Goat Cheese
Price: $10
Booking: No booking required
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Face Painting
SATURDAY & SUNDAY - Ongoing
Visit Linda and her team from the local RiverArts for some creative face paint.
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Location: RiverArts Stall
Price: $5-10
Booking: No booking required
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Upcycled T-Shirt Screenprinting
SATURDAY & SUNDAY - Ongoing all weekend
Join the outdoor ed team as they offer this great screen printing activity to help raise funds for their incredible Outdoor Education Centre - Wollangarra. Make your very own Off-Grid Living Festivla shirt, or pick from a range of fun homesteading stencils.
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Host: Wollangarra Outdoor Education
Location: Wollangarra Outdoor Education Stall
Price: Prices vary
Booking: No Booking Required
Boxwars: Cabox kids workshop
SATURDAY & SUNDAY - Ongoing all weekend
CABOX is a sustainable and hands-on family activity, encouraging creative recycling. Participants craft unique creations using cardboard. Dress-up for battle or for fun.
And why not join the festival sustainable fashion parade in your cardboard costume. Go to Feel Good Area 12.45 Sunday to join the parade.
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Host: Boxwars / Cabox
Location: Boxwars / Cabox Stall
Price: Prices vary
Booking: No Booking Required
Kids Mini Preserving (Pickling)
SATURDAY & SUNDAY - 10.00-10.30am
Kids will learn about the art of pickling vegetables. Kids will make and take home a jar of pickled vegetables.
Adult’s welcome to attend also.
18 participants max.
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Host: Kirsty Bertè - Permaculture Hawkesbury Valley Inc
Location: Permaculture Hawkesbury Valley Stall
Price: $20
Booking: Book at stall
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Kids Mini Calendula Salve Making
SATURDAY - 10.45am - 11.15am
Kids will learn the art of salve making.
Kids will make and take home a jar of calendula salve.
Adults welcome to attend also.
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Host: Kirsty Bertè - Permaculture Hawkesbury Valley Inc
Location: Permaculture Hawkesbury Valley Stall
Price: $20
Booking: Book at stall
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Kids Bee Hotel Making
SATURDAY - 11.30 - 11.50am
Kids will learn the crucial roll pollinators play in our gardens.
Kids will make and take home a mini bee hotel.
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Host: Kirsty Bertè - Permaculture Hawkesbury Valley Inc
Location: Permaculture Hawkesbury Valley Stall
Price: $15
Booking: Book at stall
Kids Fermenting Veggies
SUNDAY - 2.45 - 3.15pm
Kids will learn all about the art of fermentation.
Kids will make and take home a jar of sauerkraut.
18 participants max.
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Host: Kirsty Bertè - Permaculture Hawkesbury Valley Inc
Location: Permaculture Hawkesbury Valley Stall
Price: $20
Booking: Book at stall
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Kids Worm Farm in a Jar
SUNDAY - 3.00 - 3.20pm
Kids will learn the important job worms have in our gardens.
Kids will make and take home a worm farm in a jar.
18 participants max.
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Host: Kirsty Bertè - Permaculture Hawkesbury Valley Inc
Location: Permaculture Hawkesbury Valley Stall
Price: $20
Booking: Book at stall
Free Workshops & Demonstrations
Survival Priorities & Essential Equipment
SATURDAY 10.00am
Survival Priorities - what to do and in what order?
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Join Gordon for this great overview of survival priorities and essentials items.
Countless examples exist of people who have survived the initial impact of the particular isolating event but then did not know what to do next and prioritised incorrectly doing things in the wrong order, leading to the situation becoming far worse.
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The more knowledge you have, the less you have to carry, the better prepared you are, the less affected and vulnerable you will feel, enabling you to make good decisions and prioritise correctly.
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Host: Gordon Dedman, Bushcraft Survival Australia
Location: At host's stall
Price: FREE
Booking: No booking required
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Cutting Tools & Knife Safety
SATURDAY 12.30pm
In this workshop Gordon will be focussing on cutting tools and why a good knife is one of the most important tools of all to have with you.
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From the origins of flint tools to modern tools, Gordon will take you through a variety of cutting tools, showing what is practical and what isn't! Grips, cuts and knife safety will also be covered.
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Host: Gordon Dedman, Bushcraft Survival Australia
Location: At host's stall
Price: FREE
Booking: No booking required
Clothing & Shelter
SATURDAY 3.00pm
The clothing on your back and the material you surround yourself in are your first lines of defence against the elements. Inadequate clothing and poor shelter choices are one of the biggest killers in the Australian bush. The purpose of shelter is to create a micro-climate where you can control your core body temperature.
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In this workshop we will be looking at heat loss/gain mechanisms, what is correct clothing and man made and natural shelters.
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Host: Gordon Dedman, Bushcraft Survival Australia
Location: At host's stall
Price: FREE
Booking: No booking required
All About Fire
SUNDAY 10.00am
From the dawn of time, humankind has needed fire to; keep warm, cook and preserve food, boil water, make tools and weapons, to provide protection from danger, to light the way to see at night and above all, provide a sense of morale and wellbeing.
In this workshop Gordon will look at the one of the most important wilderness skills of all...the ability to make fire in all conditions.
Gordon will look at fire safety, correct preparation and management, how to clean up properly and leave no trace as well as live demonstrations of various ignition method including fire by friction.
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Host: Gordon Dedman, Bushcraft Survival Australia
Location: At host's stall
Price: FREE
Booking: No booking required
Survival Psychology
with Special Guest Presenter - Dr John Leach!
SUNDAY 11.00am
Travelling in from the UK during the festival weekend, we're excited to announce that renowned expert in Survival Psychology, Dr John Leach will be joining Gordon Dedman at the Bushcraft Survival Australia workshops space with a very special presentation.
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Dr John Leach is visiting Senior Research Fellow in survival psychology with the Extreme Environments Research Group (University of Portsmouth). He holds a B.Sc (hons) in psychology (University of London) and a Ph.D in applied neurocognition (University of Lancaster) where he became lecturer and later director of studies for cognitive psychology. His scientific research is into the cognitive and neurocognitive aspects of survival, human performance in extremis and particularly the process by which people perish under duress without reason. His research has been published in scientific and medical journals and his theory on dysexecutive survivor syndrome won the International Aerospace Medical Association Collins Award for 2013.
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Host: Dr John Leach
Location: Bushcraft Survival Australia stall
Price: FREE
Booking: No booking required
Water then Food
SUNDAY 12.30pm
After first aid, shelter and fire, the next priority of survival is water followed lastly by food. The human body can only go without water for up to 3 days but can go without food for up to 3 weeks (depending on the individual).
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Water acquisition and purification are key to survival, both in a wilderness environment and an urban one. We will look at the importance of water, water intake and dehydration, how to find it, the 5 water contaminants and a few different methods of filtering and purifying it to make it safe to drink.. We will then look at the importance of food in a long term survival situation and what foods should be targeted and a priority.
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Host: Gordon Dedman, Bushcraft Survival Australia
Location: At host's stall
Price: FREE
Booking: No booking required
Natural Navigation
SUNDAY 3.00pm
Navigation can be defined as the process or activity of accurately ascertaining one's position, then planning and following a route or course either by land, sea or air to your objective.
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An essential survival skill is navigating and finding your way using nature (natural navigation) without the aid of tools or instruments eg. using the sun, stars, moon, plants, weather, animals etc.
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In this workshop Gordon will show and demonstrate some reliable key methods to help you find your way in the bush without the aid of modern instruments.
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Host: Gordon Dedman, Bushcraft Survival Australia
Location: At host's stall
Price: FREE
Booking: No booking required
Traditional Tanning Talk
SATURDAY 1.00pm - 2.00pm
Listen and learn about the ancient practise of animal processing and tanning animal skins traditionally. There will be skins that have been traditionally tanned on display.
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Host: Eva Angophora, Wild Beings
Location: At host's stall
Price: FREE
Booking: No booking required
Snake Safety
ALL WEEKEND - VISIT STALL TO ATTEND
Living in Australia and especially if you plan to go out bush, snake safety is essential knowledge. Learn about our local snakes, their common behaviours, how to avoid getting bitten, what to do if you do get bitten and snake bite first-aid that you can apply to others.
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Host: Glenn James, Snake Safety Victoria
Location: At Snake Safety Victoria stall
Price: FREE
Booking: No booking required
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* Plus $5 animal encounters and photo opportunities available with some gorgeous wild life.
Percussion Fire Demo
SATURDAY & SUNDAY - 3.00PM
Navigate your way down to the ASI booth to witness the oldest fire
starting known to humanity, that predates ferro rods, flint and steel,
friction fire and even Homo Sapiens themselves. Using only marcasite and flint we will show you how the Neanderthals and many others started their fires and the special tinder they used to do it.
From the frozen tundras of Palaeolithic Europe to modern day South Australia, we will explain to you the incredible history of this fire-starting technique, its context over time and place and how to light fires using nothing more than a pyrophoric rock and a suitable tinder. Together we will witness the reignition of a spark that first lit up hundreds of thousands of years ago.
This class will be led by A.S.I Instructor Tom Foley, a primitive survival instructor and archaeologist, who has extensive experience in the production of stone tools.
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Host: Tom Foley, Aussie Survival Instructors
Location: Aussie Survival Instructors stall
Price: FREE
Booking: No booking required
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Traditional Bush Timber Skills Demo
ONGOING ALL WEEKEND
Demonstration of traditional bush tools and techniques for working with wood.
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Host: Jimmy Findlay - Traditional Bush Timber Skills
Location: Traditional Bush Timber Skills stall
Price: FREE
Booking: No booking required
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Small Scale DIY Solar - Basics & Safety
SATURDAY & SUNDAY - 10.30AM
A presentation and technical demonstration on the simple do's and don'ts of small scale off grid and mobile power systems aimed at safety and compliance for the budding "hands-on" DIYer.
Milo and Martin will explain and demonstrate proper techniques and cover the common mistakes and pitfalls for the DIY enthusiast. We aim to demystify and explain the technical skills and rationale behind small system design and installation including fusing, cable terminations, battery safety and all the associated risks.
If you've ever wondered what cable to use or where to put a fuse, why your batteries need replacing prematurely or where that "magical blue smoke" came from and how to avoid it, this education session is for you!
Please bring along photos of your current setup, or diagrams of your proposed system - Milo and Martin can have a look, answer questions and give recommendations for you to take home!
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Host: Preston Off Grid
Location: Preston Off Grid stall
Price: FREE
Booking: No booking required
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Natural Death Series
SATURDAY & SUNDAY
9.30am: To stay at home - Caring for someone at the end of life.
10.30am: Funeral Rites and Rights
11.30am: Shrouding Demonstration
1.00pm: DIY Funerals
2.00pm: Feed me to the Roses, environmentally friendly ways to dispose of your body.
3.00pm: Shrouding Demonstration
4.00pm: What's an end-of-life doula?
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We will also be offering a community art project over both days to collage a shroud bearer (coffin carrier) at our stall.
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Location: Natural Grace / Natural Death Advocacy Network
Price: FREE
Booking: No booking required
Flow Hive Beekeeping Demo
SATURDAY & SUNDAY 2.00
Learn from Flow Ambassador Jananta about the revolutionary beekeeping invention the 'Flow Hive'. And see how the 'Flow Hive' allows the beekeeper to observe the bees through the viewing windows, and harvest honey in the gentlest way possible for both the bees and the beekeeper!
Host: Jananta Dwipa, Flow Hive
Location: Flow Hive stall
Price: Free
Booking: No booking required
Grafting Fruit Trees
SATURDAY 11.00am
Learn to graft fruit trees with Charlie Showers from Black Barn Farm.
Imagine creating new life that produces food! Learn the ancient art of grafting and turn your backyard into a food growing paradise.
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Host: Charlie Showers, Black Barn Farm
Location: Black Barn Farm Stall
Price: FREE
Booking: No Booking Required
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ALSO FEATURING AT THE CONVERSATION HUB SUNDAY 11AM
Cooking with Saffron
SATURDAY & SUNDAY 11.00AM
Saffron is much more than just a richly coloured, delicous spice. There are many health benefits that come from cooking with saffron.
Have you always wondered how to use saffron? What does it do to food? How can you include it in your diet for health benefits? Saffron has a long history of medicinal use, whether used by the Romans to heal wounds or by Cleopatra as part of her skincare routine.
Join Gamila to hear how saffron can be used for eye health, sleep, hormonal balance and the latest health research. Learn how to make a simple saffron tincture and the importance of using saffron with a known source and quality when looking for specific health outcomes
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Host: Gamila of Beechworth
Location: Gamila of Beechworth stall
Price: FREE
Booking: Demonstration Only no booking required
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Essential Oil Distilling
SATURDAY & SUNDAY 11:30am & 2.30pm
Curious about distilling your own essential oils? Come along and we will demonstrate the practice of distilling essential oil.
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Host: Snowy Mountains Eucalyptus Oil
Location: At Snowy Mountains Eucalyptus Oil stall
Price: FREE
Booking: No Booking Required
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Herbal Allies for Winter
ONGOING ALL WEEKEND (Except when Naomi is presenting on talks stages)
​Herbal Allies for Winter through the Eastern and Western herbal lens. Let’s discuss how herbs and herbal preparations can strengthen our immune system and help protect us through the colder months
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Host: Naomi Ingleton, FarmacyCo
Location: FarmacyCo stall
Price: FREE
Booking: No Booking Required
Top 10 Medicinal Plants
ONGOING ALL WEEKEND (Except when Naomi is presenting on talks stages)
How to grow, harvest & work with them.
The must have plants in your own cool temperate Farmacy Garden. You will be guides through identifying cultivars, optimal harvesting times, processing technique and how we can harness the plant medicine to help us on our journey through life
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Host: Naomi Ingleton, FarmacyCo
Location: FarmacyCo stall
Price: FREE
Booking: No Booking Required
Intuitive Life Coaching
SATURDAY & SUNDAY (anytime from 1pm*3pm)
Kavitha is a breathing practitioner/educator, Yoga and life coach. She will be generously offering free group consultations - intuitive life coaching. Just visit her stall every hour @ 1pm, 2pm & 3pm.
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Host: Kavitha Muthusami
Location: Healing Life Stories stall
Price: FREE
Booking: No booking required. Just arrive after 1pm.
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Shrouding Demonstrations
SATURDAY & SUNDAY 11.30am & 3.00pm
Conventional coffins and care for our dead involves practices and materials that are damaging for our planet. Shrouding offers a way of gently and respectfully caring for our dead using a simple wrap. Easy to do, legal, and environmentally friendly, shrouding is something that a family and those close can do for the person they love the most.
This workshop offers an opportunity for people to learn about shrouding and other natural, environmentally friendly alternatives, so we can take care of the dead back into our own hands.
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Host: Natural Death Advocacy Network
Location: Natural Death Advocacy Network stall
Price: FREE
Booking: No Booking Required
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Blacksmith Demonstration
ONGOING ALL WEEKEND
Come and check-out Wayne in action, as he demonstrates his traditional Blacksmith skills, making metal creations all weekend.
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Host: Wayne Wagstaff, Art By Degrees
Location: At Art By Degrees stall
Price: FREE
Hemp Building Demo
SATURDAY & SUNDAY 11.00am & 2.30pm
Join David Brian from Southern Hemp as he introduces you to Hemp as a building material, he'll take you through all of the benefits of this natural material and talk to you about his experiences using it on dozens of builds around Victoria and NSW. Throughout the talk he will do a live demonstration building a small section of wall to give you a better understanding of just how easy it is to work with as well as answer any question you may have.
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Host: David Brian, Southern Hemp
Location: Southern Hemp stall
Price: FREE
Booking: No booking required, just gather around.
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Traditional Wool Spinning Demo
ONGOING ALL WEEKEND
Mark Trickett comes from a family of wool spinners and is passionate about this hand-craft that is slowly becoming a lost trade. He is so welcoming and open in sharing skills and stories. Feel free to visit his stall anytime over the weekend to learn more about this wonderful skill.
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Host: Mark Trickett
Location: At Mark Trickett stall
Price: FREE
Booking: No booking required
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Traditional Sock Making Demo
ONGOING ALL WEEKEND
Janine will be demonstrating the use of my antique sock knitting machine all weekend from her stall. People are welcome to stop and watch and ask questions for as long as they like for these free demonstrations.
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Host: Janine Wilson, The Sock Maker
Location: At The Sock Maker stall
Price: FREE
Booking: Demonstration Only no booking required
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Loom Weaving Demos
ALL WEEKEND
Head on over to the Gypsyweaver stall to see Cathy and friends working the weaving. Chat with her about her craft and see the many beautiful creation that she's produced using this traditional style.
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Host: Cathy Tobin
Location: Gypsyweaver stall
Price: FREE
Booking: No Booking Required
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Painting with Fire
ONGOING ALL WEEKEND
A short and practical demonstration of the ‘Painting with Fire’ technique using a candle and paper along with a brief history on the lost art of Fumage. Demos are done on demand for individuals or small groups based on stall capacity.
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Host: Maegan Oberhardt Wildlife Artist
Location: Maegan Oberhardt Wildlife Artist stall
Price: FREE
Booking: No Booking Required
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Portable Sawmills Demos
ONGOING ALL WEEKEND
Ever wanted to see the Lucas Portable Sawmill in action? Now's your chance. Head along to their stall to see this fantastic machinery working and see how it could really add benefit to you self-sufficient lifestyle, help you with a self-build or create a hobby business with ease.
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Host: Lucas Mill Team
Location: Lucas Mill Pty Ltd stall
Price: FREE
Booking: No Booking Required
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Kids Tyre Playground
OPEN ALL WEEKEND
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A fun space where kids can free play with recycled tyres, straw bales and other bits and bobs. Make new friends and get creative.
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Location: See Site Map
Price: FREE
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Pet Behaviour and Nutrition
SATURDAY & SUNDAY 10AM
What is the link between behaviour and nutrition in your anxious dog? During this workshop we will explore the links between nutrition, gut health, the vagus nerve and the impacts on behaviours such as anxiety in dogs.
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Host: Brights Bites training treats
Location: Brights Bites training treats stall
Price: FREE
Booking: No Booking Required
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Pet Food Toxicity & Behaviour
SATURDAY & SUNDAY 12.30PM
Want to learn more about the effects of toxins from processed foods on gut micro biome, overall health and risk of cancer in dogs?
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Host: Brights Bites training treats
Location: Brights Bites training treats stall
Price: FREE
Booking: No Booking Required
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Pet Nutrition and Conditioning
SATURDAY & SUNDAY 3.00PM
Building Brave Dogs Creating resilience through nutrition and conditioning. With just some simple changes in your dogs diet and enviro conditioning training you can create a resilient and brave dog.
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Host: Brights Bites training treats
Location: Brights Bites training treats stall
Price: FREE
Booking: No Booking Required
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Design your own Mushroom
SATURDAY & SUNDAY - ONGOING ALL DAY
Unleash your inner artist at our mushroom painting station! Choose from a variety of cut-out mushroom designs and bring them to life with your unique color palette. Take your masterpiece home or contribute to our collaborative display panel.
No limits, no cost—just creative fun! Drop by anytime throughout the day and spend 5-15 minutes adding your personal touch
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Host: Moon's Clayground
Location: Moon's Clayground stall
Price: FREE
Booking: No Booking Required
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Upcycling Clothes
SATURDAY & SUNDAY - ONGOING ALL DAY
Watch me at work as I create unique handmade embellished, tie dyed, bleached and repurposed clothing
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Host: Mary B Lunardi - Starbuttz Hobbies
Location: Starbuttz Hobbies stall
Price: FREE
Booking: No Booking Required
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Leather Carving Display
SATURDAY & SUNDAY - ONGOING ALL DAY
Leather carving display and demonstration and discussing carving technique, tools and and troubleshooting. demos and discussions
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Host: Laszlo Rideg - Count Laszlo Leather
Location: Count Laszlo Leather stall
Price: FREE
Booking: No Booking Required
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Sister of Cycle Workshop
SATURDAY & SUNDAY - 3.00pm
In our 'sister of cycle' workshop, we delve into the potency and importance of learning and working with the inner seasons of a woman's cycle and how a deep connection to ourselves with reverence to the earth's ancient teachings through the lens of Traditional Chinese medicine, Ayurveda and Australian bush medicine can bring about a better self-understanding and positive physical, mental and spiritual benefits.
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Host: WYLDWANDA
Location: WYLDWANDA stall
Price: FREE
Booking: No Booking Required
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Race to Feed the Worms (Kids)
SATURDAY 10.00am
SUNDAY 2.00pm
What do worms eat?
Can you race to feed them before the time is up?
Introduction to soil biology for children aged 5-10 yrs.
Participation places limited. Duration 10 mins
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Host: Natasha Stafford - Beingreen Permaculture
Location: Beingreen Permaculture stall
Price: FREE
Booking: No Booking Required
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Marvellous Mud (Kids)
SATURDAY 11.00am
SUNDAY 2.30pm
What actually IS soil? Is it alive? Can we make new soil? Introduction to the soil food web for children aged 5-10 yrs.
Duration 15 mins
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Host: Natasha Stafford - Beingreen Permaculture
Location: Beingreen Permaculture stall
Price: FREE
Booking: No Booking Required
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Timber Milling Demonstration
SATURDAY & SUNDAY - Ongoing all day
Check out the Hardwood Mill in action.
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Host: Geoff Lloyd Hardwood Mills Australia
Location: Hardwood Mills Australia stall
Price: FREE
Booking: No Booking Required
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Cooking Demo - Native Australian Foods & Spices.
SATURDAY & SUNDAY 10.00am
Bush Tukka Pancakes with your choice of toppings.
Free to attend but please register at our stall
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Host: Jackie Price, Little Bush Kitchen - Yield LOT 7
Location: Yield LOT 7 stall
Price: FREE
Booking: No Booking Required
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Cooking Demo - Native Australian Foods & Spices.
SATURDAY & SUNDAY 1.00pm
Bush Foods and Home Cheese making.
Free to attend but please register at our stall
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Host: Jackie Price, Little Bush Kitchen - Yield LOT 7
Location: Yield LOT 7 stall
Price: FREE
Booking: No Booking Required
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Flour Milling Demonstration
SATURDAY & SUNDAY - Ongoing all weekend
Come see a small wooden French mill and discover how flour is made! Every hour for 15 mins with spelt, corn, rye, chickpea, wheat and buckwheat.
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Host: Milawa Bread
Location: Milawa Bread stall
Price: FREE
Booking: No Booking Required
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Co-Creative Space
SATURDAY & SUNDAY - Ongoing all weekend
The team from the Cats Pyjamas are back with their gorgeous co-creative space with hands-on activities for all ages. Upcycle, recycle, creative, communicate, have fun and make new friends.
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Host: Cats Pyjamas
Location: - Co-Create Space
Price: FREE
Booking: No Booking Required
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Therapeutic Horticulture
SATURDAY 2.00
A sensory workshop where we will discuss and experience the healing potential of plants to support us physically, emotionally, psychologically, and spiritually.
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Location: Feel Good Area
Price: FREE
Booking: No Booking Required
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Pioneer Bush Skills Demo
SUNDAY - 11.00am
Pioneer bush woodworking demonstrations using old time tools and methods. Plus examples and tools on display.
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Host: Brian Beasley - Pioneer Bush Woodworking
Location: Pioneer Bush Woodworking Stall
Price: FREE
Booking: No Booking Required
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The Homesteader's Harvest: Growing Wealth from Your Wisdom
SATURDAY & SUNDAY - 12.00pm
Gather around for a chat at Kate's stall as she discusses the fusion of age-old homesteading wisdom with modern digital opportunities.
This talk promises not only to inspire but to equip attendees with tangible insights on how their existing skills, be it in homesteading or other domains, can germinate into flourishing digital businesses. The current era is ripe for such innovation, and Kate’s guidance in navigating through the cultivation of online workshops, courses, memberships, coaching, and more will be a beacon for many looking to sow seeds in the digital soil.
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Host: Kate Herford - New Generation Homesteader
Location: New Generation Homesteader Stall
Price: FREE
Booking: No Booking Required
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Cane Rods Fly Fishing
SATURDAY & SUNDAY - Various times
Watch the cane rod fly fishing demo, or get hand-on as the team show you how it's done.
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Host: Riverstoned Cane Fishing Rods
Location: Watch from Riverstoned Cane Fishing Rods
Price: FREE
Booking: No Booking Required
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Sustainable Fashion Parade
SUNDAY - 12.45pm
Come and join the peoples parade.
Fast Fashion is SO last season! "Step into the spotlight and celebrate sustainable style at our Recycled, Re-Loved Chic Fashion Parade!
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With opportunities to make sustainable costumes and upcycled instruments all throughout the festival with the Cats Pyjamas Creative Collective, Boxwars and Riverarts this will be an opportunity to come together and truly celebrate sustainability in a fun way. Join us as we redefine runway glamour, one recycled thread at a time!"
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Come in costume, adornments, normal clothes, and with or without instruments ALL ARE WELCOME.
The only must is a smile as we take off around the festival loud and proud and having a great time.
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Host: Off-Grid Festival Team
Location: Meet at Feel Good Area
Price: FREE
Booking: No Booking Required
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Making Delicious Olives
SATURDAY 2.00-3.00pm
An introduction to creating delicious olives at home.
Do you have an olive tree at home, or access to olives (wild, friends, family farms?), do you look at the fruit each year and feel you should do something about it? Well, now's the opportunity to learn how.
Join olive farmer Gamila MacRury to learn all of the tips and tricks you'll need to know to get it right from curing to brining and more.
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Host: Gamilia at Beechworth
Location: Homesteading Tent
Price: FREE
Booking: No Booking Required
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Basic Survival Training
SATURDAY & SUNDAY - 10am,11am,1pm or 2pm
In-person Basic Survival Training. This covers basic survival for cases where you might find yourself in an unknown or remote location. This free training equips you with the fundamental knowledge required to survive in an unknown area. E.g. the bush forest, desert, open plains, hills etc.
This course is the most important training you will ever do, it's a bit like emergency first aid, it is essential training for everyone and it's free and delivered by a non profit organisation set up for your benefit.
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Host: Australian Preppers Survival League Inc.
Location: Australian Preppers Survival League Inc. Stall
Price: FREE
Booking: No Booking Required
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SPOON CARVING DEMOS
ALL WEEKEND
Nat will be demonstrating spoon carving from start to finish of process - axing out from a lump of wood through hand-carving with a knife for the finished product.
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Host: Nat Ord
Location: Nat Ord
Price: FREE
Booking: No Booking Required
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The Off-Grid Freedom Series
ALL WEEKEND
Visit the team at Nomadtronics to for talks running all weekend about some of the following topics:
- Alternative ophthalmology and eyesight restoration,(improve your vision with little-known techniques)
- Electro-medicine, (cure all ills without pharmaceuticals) - focusing on simple, time tested DIY techniques and devices
- How to mix your own tasty, herbal formula's without the use of sugar or stevia, (must-know beneficial sweet ingredients)
- Mind control technologies and subliminal techniques used by governments and corporations
- Earthing /grounding and EMF exposure re-mediation, (sick building syndrome /electrical sensitivity)
- Setting up an off-grid community for health conscious living and self sufficiency.
- Sensible-By-Design - Reimagining consumer technology to eliminate buit-in obsolessence and bad design.
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Host: Nomadtronics
Location: Nomadtronics stall
Price: FREE
Booking: No Booking Required
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Tesla Model 3 - EV Test Drive
SATURDAY & SUNDAY - From 11AM
Have you been wanting to TEST DRIVE the Tesla Model 3? Now's your chance!
The Tesla Melbourne team will be joining us at this years Off-Grid Living Festival with the Model Y and Model 3 on display. And a Model 3 available for solo test drives.
Take off from Chiltern Racecourse and try the vehicle on the back roads or the highway. It's an amazing experience and a great way to learn more about owning an EV, discovering the great features and seeing how smooth they are to drive.
Sign up at the Tesla Motors Australia stand and they'll take you through the basics to get you comfortable taking to the road.
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Host: Tesla Motors
Location: Sign-up at Tesla Motors stall - offsite test drive.
Electric Vehicle Passenger Drives
SATURDAY & SUNDAY - From 11AM
The friendly and generous team from the Australia Electric Vehicle Association are bringing their own personal EV cars to the festival to display all weekend. They'll be available to talk you through what it's like to own and drive one and even take people on passenger test drive from 11.00am each day.
If you haven't been in one before it's well-worth a try and quite different to a petrol/diesel car.
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Host: Australian Electric Vehicle Association
Location: Meet host at AEVA stall and they'll take you offsite for a passenger test drive.
Electric Scooter - Test Rides
ALL WEEKEND
Pop over to VOLTRIUM to test ride one of their fantastic E-Scooters. Your guaranteed to fall in love with this mode of transport.
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Host: VOLTRIUM
Location: Pick up bike at VOLTRIUM stall and they'll direct you to the e-bike test ride arena.
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Nissan Leaf - EV Passenger Test Drive
SATURDAY & SUNDAY - From 10.30
Meet the team from Kilowatt car - importers and personal drivers of second-hand the Nissan Leaf's.
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This team was founded on an agreed goal that if they could provide top quality, used and cheaper second-hand electric cars for EV buyers, then this would be a step towards looking after the future of the planet whilst still giving people reliable, comfortable (and fun) transport.
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Host: Russel Klose, Kilowatt Cars
Location: Kilowatt Cars stall
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Polaris Electric ATV - Test Rides
All Weekend
The new POLARIS RANGER XP KINETIC has now been released in Australia and this will be your first chance to take this incredible ATV for a test ride.
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RANGER XP Kinetic delivers uncompromised capability, unrivaled durability, and the refined performance of an all-electric powertrain.
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Host: Polaris Elders
Location: Head over to the Polaris Elders stall and the team will direct you to the test ride area.
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MicroFleet - Test Rides
All Weekend
Come and check out this amazing e-mobility range of vehicles. From scooters to cargo bikes and great charging innovations.
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Host: Microfleet
Location: Head over to the Microfleet stall and the team will direct you to the test ride area.
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