Homeschooling Permaculture Kids Gardening School Term 3

🌻✨ Homeschooling Permaculture Kids Gardening School – Term 3 Enrolments Now Open! ✨🌻

A hands-on, nature-based learning program designed especially for homeschooling families 🌱

Join us for a 9-week spring gardening, food growing and homesteading skills program for homeschooled children aged 5–17 years. Rooted in permaculture principles, this engaging outdoor experience nurtures real-life skills, confidence, and a deep connection to nature while preparing the garden for a season of spring abundance.

👩‍🏫 Choose your preferred day:

🗓 Mondays 1pm – 3pm (27th July – 21st September 2026)

🗓 Fridays 10am – 12pm (31st July – 25th September 2026)

💰 $180 per term (first child)

💰 $130 per term (siblings)

🌱 Each session includes:

🐔 Feeding and caring for chickens, ducks, quails, bunnies, and goats

🧑‍🌾 Garden maintenance and planting in tune with the seasons

🥕 Collecting eggs, composting, and working with real food

🐐 Free play and goat cuddles in a safe, outdoor learning space

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🧠🌿 Weekly Topics – Term 3

Week 1

📅 Monday 27th July | Friday 31st July

🔥 Campfire Connections – Welcome to the Farm

A warm and relaxed introduction to the term. Children will explore the farm, meet and feed our animals, discover our permaculture systems, and build new friendships around the campfire while enjoying hot chocolate and toasted marshmallows.

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Week 2

📅 Monday 3rd August | Friday 7th August

🌱 Spring Seedling Success – Getting a Head Start

Children will learn which vegetables, herbs and flowers thrive during spring and discover how gardeners get a head start on the growing season by raising seedlings in our greenhouse before the weather warms. We will sow our spring seedlings together.

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Week 3

📅 Monday 10th August | Friday 14th August

🌿 Grow More for Free – Plant Propagation

Children will learn how gardeners create new plants without buying seeds or new plants, by taking cuttings, dividing plants and saving runners and seeds. Each child will propagate plants to take home and watch grow.

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Week 4

📅 Monday 17th August | Friday 21st August

🥕 Root Crops – Growing Underground Treasures

Children will discover how vegetables grow beneath the soil and explore root crops including carrots, beetroot, radish, parsnip, swede and onions. Together we’ll sow a selection of root crop seeds in the garden.

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Week 5

📅 Monday 24th August | Friday 28th August

🐝 Native Bees & Backyard Biodiversity

Children will learn about Australia’s native bees, their role in pollination and how to create wildlife-friendly gardens that support biodiversity. We will build a native bee hotel for the garden and sow pollinator attracting flower seeds, including a sunflower seedling to take home.

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Week 6

📅 Monday 31st August | Friday 4th September

🌼 Edible Flowers & Spring Colour

Children will discover the colourful world of edible flowers and learn how easy they are to grow in the garden. We’ll explore a variety of flowers that can be eaten,