SGA’s webinars and workshops are designed to inspire and are rich in practical suggestions for people to use in their own gardens. Click on the questions below to find out more about our community education activities.
What workshop formats and durations are available?
SGA offers a number of workshop formats that are flexible enough to meet your needs.
- Webinars: 45 – 90 minutes
SGA can offer full service online webinars for your community. Set up and hosted by SGA on Zoom, webinars often reach a larger audience than face-to-face workshops as they require no travel and are often more convenient for people to attend. Recordings can also be made available for a limited time for people who can’t attend or for participants to re-watch.
- Face-to-Face Workshops: 60 – 90 minutes
SGA’s face-to-face workshops bring people together to learn about gardening sustainably. Face-to-face workshops can include hands-on, practical activities such as making paper pots or seed packets and soil testing.
- Walk and Talk Workshops – 60-90 minutes
A community garden or nature reserve is a great venue to inspire people to garden more sustainably. The venue provides the inspiration for discussion, highlighting examples of what can be achieved or changed in the home garden or community space. Topics that can be adopted to this format include Habitat Gardening, Preparing for (season) Harvest and Starting an Organic Garden.
What's included in each workshop?
SGA’s workshops are designed to make everything as easy as possible for our host organisations. We provide a professional powerpoint presentation, handout notes and all materials for our hands-on activtiies. SGA also provides a marketing blurb and image to use to promote the workshop.
For webinars, SGA will set up the webinar on Zoom and invite a representative from the host organisation to co-host the session. As an optional add-on, SGA can record the webinar and make the recording available following the live event.
Do you offer hands-on activities?
SGA offers hands-on activities to complement most of our workshops. These activities encourage attendees to develop their gardening skills and an opportunity for community interaction. Examples of activities include making biodegradable pots, planting microgreen seeds and making native bee hotels. We will suggest a suitable activity when quoting for workshops.
Who are SGA's workshop presenters?
SGA prides itself on the experience and knowledge of our presenters. They bring passion and engagement to every workshop session.
Charlotte Harrison
Charlotte is a qualified horticulturalist and avid home gardener with a particular interest in edible landscapes andsustainable gardening practices. In her own garden Charlotte keeps chickens, rears native plants from seed, and grows a wide variety of fruit, vegetables and bush foods. Charlotte manages and delivers the community workshop program at SGA.
Teresa May
Teresa is a sustainable design professional with experience in community development and environmental education. A home gardener, chicken keeper and forager she has a particular interest in personal sustainable choices and lifestyle changes individuals can implement within their home and garden to reduce their carbon footprint and connect better with their local community. Teresa manages the Master Classes at SGA and assists with the community workshop program
What do SGA's workshops cost?
SGA offers training starting at $325 for a 60-minute webinar. We offer discounts for community groups and for multiple bookings.
To obtain a quote for your event please complete our enquiry form.
Where are face-to-face workshops available?
SGA is based in Melbourne and currently offers face-to-face presentations throughout Victoria. Travel costs of $1/km return apply to events more than 20km from SGA’s offices in Bulleen VIC.
SGA presents and hosts webinars throughout Australia. For organisations that wish to access our workshops but also value face-to-face community connections, streaming a presentation into a community space is a good option.
Do you offer workshops or activities for children?
Most of SGA’s workshop topics have been developed for adult learners of all gardening abilities. We participate in children’s events on a case-by-case basis. Activities offered include making native bee hotels, and ‘bug hunt’ bushwalks. Please contact us at training@sgaonline.org.au to discuss options if you’re interested in activities for children.
What do attendees say about SGA's workshops?
“Informative, interesting and engaging. I am interested in the subject and it gave me a few points I hadn’t considered.”
Wonderous Weeds
“I thought the workshop was excellent in every way including the breadth of topics.”
Tiny Houses, Tiny Gardens, Big Living
“thorough, easy to understand and presented very well”
Preparing for Spring Harvest
100% of attendees said the workshop inspired them to start their own organic veggie garden and said they were ‘very satisfied’ with the relevance and overall content of the workshop. Attendees mentioned the following workshop highlights: “Notes provided after session, clear examples in the session” and “The practical newspaper potting at the end.”
Getting Started with Organic Gardening
What do host organisations say about SGA's workshops?
We’ve worked with SGA for many years to deliver our sustainability workshop program. Richard is easy to communicate with and always gets back to us quickly with quotes. He and his speakers are passionate, enthusiastic and great subject matter experts.’
Andrea and Liz, City of Boroondara
The presentation was detailed and professional, and delivered with clarity, warmth and passion. Our participants really appreciated understanding all the steps they could take to support biodiversity in their own backyards. Sustainable Gardening Australia is an important source of independent advice for home gardeners. I regard their work highly and regularly recommend their resources to our residents.
Kat Lavers, My Smart Garden, Hobsons Bay City Council
I greatly enjoy engaging Sustainable Gardening Australia for community workshops when I can, as I know that their presentations are always of high quality and presented in an engaging manner. I have received nothing but high praise as feedback from patrons who have attended SGA programs at my library. [Former presenters] Richard and Nicole are a delight to work with and extremely accommodating of working with the needs and requirements of local government and community organisations.
Aimee Rhodes, Kathleen Syme Library – Melbourne Library Service
What are SGA's terms and conditions for workshop bookings?
Cancellations
If you need to cancel the workshop / webinar you may do so free of charge if –
- 7 days notice is given.
- cancellation is via email and an acknowledgement by SGA is received.
SGA will offer the customer the opportunity to reschedule the session with alternative format if required.
For larger events, festivals and conferences, a 50% charge will be incurred for cancellations less than one month from the date of the event.
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