FRIDAY

Time

Topic

Speaker

10.00am

Backyard Beekeeping - Doug Purdie fell in love with bees in 2009 when reading about the battle bees are facing in most of the world due to widespread diseases. He will show you how easy it is to keep happy, healthy bees, and how and when to harvest the liquid gold.

Doug Purdie -

The Urban Beehive

11.30am

Stress Free Stockmanship - Take the hassles out of livestock handling by hearing about how to increase production by up to 33% and make your stockwork easy.

Bruce Maynard -

Stress Free Stockmanship

1.00pm

How to design a 9 star rated home and how they save you money - The secrets of designing a home that’s warm in winter and cool in summer. Sam will show you how easy they are to design and how much money you can save.

Sam Vivers -

Viva Homes

2.30pm

Self Herding- Learn how this new approach can get animals to graze where you want them to and change their eating habits without the use of fences.

Bruce Maynard -

Self Herding

4.00pm

Using native grasses on your property - Find out how you can utilise native grasses on your property for erosion control, revegetation of degraded or disturbed land, for resilient pasture, in landscaping and as ground cover in horticultural plantations. This discussion will detail the potential options for the use of natives on your property and how to prepare, sow and manage them.

Maddy Clonan -

Native Seeds

SATURDAY

10.00am

Using native grasses on your property - Find out how you can utilise native grasses on your property for erosion control, revegetation of degraded or disturbed land, for resilient pasture, in landscaping and as ground cover in horticultural plantations. This discussion will detail the potential options for the use of natives on your property and how to prepare, sow and manage them.

Maddy Clonan -

Native Seeds

11.30am

The tips and traps of investing in agriculture – Learn about what drives wealth and profitability in agriculture, how to capitalise on the trends and avoiding/overcoming the constraints.

Karl Behrendt -

Charles Sturt University

1.00pm

How to design a 9 star rated home and how they save you money - The secrets of designing a home that’s warm in winter and cool in summer. Sam will show you how easy they are to design and how much money you can save.

Sam Vivers -

Viva Homes

2.30pm

Backyard Beekeeping - Doug Purdie fell in love with bees in 2009 when reading about the battle bees are facing in most of the world due to widespread diseases. He will show you how easy it is to keep happy, healthy bees, and how and when to harvest the liquid gold.

Doug Purdie -

The Urban Beehive

4.00pm

Taking a systems approach to farm management – Karl will provide an insight into how to achieve a more balanced/holistic outcome to farm management. There are several principles of management in agriculture; this talk will cover what they are and how they relate to taking a systems approach.

Karl Behrendt -

Charles Sturt University