Green Connect's 11-acre permaculture farm at Warrawong is reopening to the public with a summer workshop series.
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Experts will be teaching skills in beekeeping to propagation, seed saving to gardening in a small space, from December through to January.
General manager Kylie Flament said the workshops help people connect with nature and introduce sustainability practices into their life.
"When people attend Green Connect's workshops they get to see a leading example of urban agriculture in Australia and one of the largest urban permaculture farms in the world," she said.
In September, the social enterprise was recognised by the Commonwealth for global leadership in sustainable development, for its urban permaculture farm.
They were one of 15 international recipients - and the only Australian winner - in the Commonwealth Secretary-General's 2021 Innovation for Sustainable Development Awards, for their innovative model to reduces waste, improve sustainability and increase connection in the community.
"Fair food is at the heart of what we do," Ms Flament said at the time.
"This means the people who grow it are employed in meaningful work and paid fair wages; the people who eat it are consuming healthy and chemical-free fruit and vegetables; and the planet benefits from increased biodiversity and decreased chemicals and pollution.
"We've made our corner of the world a better place and in doing so we have - hopefully - created a blueprint for others to do the same. "
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