Bamboo Essentials – Weekend Workshop July 19 -20 2025

Registration Fee: $295 (Earlybird $255)  includes all tuition, notes, use of tools and materials, morning and afternoon teas and a delicious lunch both days.
Free camping on site for Saturday night.
Please bring work gloves, sun hat, and wear practical work clothing and boots.
Numbers limited – register now to reserve your place.
• Special 10% Discount for members of Permaculture Australia, use the Supporters discount code for Permaculture College -Djanbung Gardens

You will learn…

• Tips on clump management for running and clumping bamboos
• What time of year to harvest and how to select suitable culms
• Harvest techniques, tools and safety
• Post harvest curing and de-branching
• Ways to treat bamboo against powder borer beetle: infusion and transpiration methods
• What tools you need for harvesting and crafting, and how to use them
• Essential techniques for splitting, cutting, lashing and joinery
• Build a simple project to learn through hands-on action
• Basic whittling – make some bamboo spatulas and utensils to take home

Djanbung Gardens has an impressive collection of established bamboo clumps and practical examples of creative ways to use this abundant and beautiful resource.This coupled with an inspiring collection of bamboo tools from around the world makes Djanbung Gardens the ideal location to dive into the essential knowledge and skills to work with this magical plant.

Trainers:

Robyn Francis, permaculture teacher and designer, has been growing bamboo on her property, Djanbung Gardens for the past 25+ years and gleaned techniques for using this amazing material from some of Australia’s leading bamboo experts and her permaculture work in the bamboo cultures of Asia and Latin America. Robyn has been facililtating an annual bamboo workshop at Djanbung Gardens for the past 15 years.

Read Robyn Francis’ article about Bamboo

Natt Rolls-Gordon, has been working with bamboo projects and installations at Woodford Folk Festival and at Djanbung Gardens for the past decade and for five years has been co-teaching the Bamboo Essential annual workshops.

BamBooT Camp. Want to immerse yourself further in bamboo skills? Join us for the Bamboot Camp July 16-23, 2024. Boot Camp fee includes this Bamboo Essentials Workshop plus an addition 6 days of harvesting, processing, building and crafting with bamboo. More info and registrations HERE

Gallery of past Bamboo workshops at Djanbung Gardens