Program
Take a deep dive into bush food & ecology
The Quorn Community Landcare Group invite Quorn Quandong Festival goers to join an amazing line-up of speakers in the Town Hall on Saturday and at the Pithi Kawi Bush Food Garden on Sunday of the Quorn Quandong Festival weekend.
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ABC’s Gardening Australia presenter Sophie Thomson will return in 2025 to host and facilitate a range of speakers to discuss selecting, growing, harvesting and processing native food plants in low rainfall regions.
Whether you’re a farmer, gardener, community volunteers or local business with an interest in native foods – there is something here for everyone!
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The Pithi Kawi Walking trail features the Quorn Bush Food Garden. Designed and planted only four years ago, the beautiful park lands showcase a large variety of local native plant species of cultural importance to our local community.
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Saturday 26th Oct
Town Hall Speaker sessions and Bush food garden
8am-9am Guided Flora Reserve Walk (Quarry Road)
8am-9am "Like A Park Run" 1km, 2km & 5km circuits around Quorn's parklands.
Come in RED prize for the best dressed (meet at the Quorn & District War Memorial Swimming Pool car park)
Powell Garden All Day Town Treasure Hunt (Maps at the visitor center)
10am-11am Kids activity-Bush food seed bomb making (Quorn bush food garden)
10am John Weeks cooking demonstration (Town Square)
11.30 Andrew Feilke cooking demonstration (Town Square)
12.30pm-1.30 Native bees in the landscape-A guided walk looking for local pollinators with Tricia Slattery (Powell gardens)
12.30pm-1.30pm Railway Bob Show (Town Hall - Ticketed event)
1.30 Meez on plus cooking demonstration (Town Square)
2.pm Nukunu cultural burning presentation with Jared Thomas (Town hall)
3.pm-3.30 Wattle seed roasting demonstration with Angus Jones (Town center - Wattle We Eat market stall)
2.pm-4.pm Propagating Quandongs selecting saving and germinating from seed with Ben McCallum and kurt Tschirner (Pithi Kawi bush food garden)
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Sunday 27th Oct
8.30-1.30 Quorn Produce Market (Railway Tce and town hall)
7am-8am Sunrise Yoga with Jane (Pithi Kawi Bush Food Garden)
8am-9am Guided Quorn flora reserve Walk with Ben McCallum (Quarry Road)
10.am-10.20 Growing Muntries with Matthew Koop (Pithi Kawi bush food garden)
10.am-12.pm Bush food hut master class-building a native food bush hut for nature play with Ben McCallum, family friendly activity (Pithi Kawi Bush Food Garden)
10am-11am Treasure hunt & rock painting with Quorn land care & Dorothy Crosby -kids activity (Pithi Kawi bush garden)
10am-11am "Hoppy the Magpie" Book Reading with Bronwyn Filsell (Pithi Kawi bush garden)
10am Andrew Feilke cooking demonstration (Town Square)
10.20am-11am Compost and worm farming making great soil with Ian Dunk (Pithi Kawi bush garden)
11.am-11.30am Pollinators, designing and building habitat for native bees with Patricia Slattery (Pithi Kawi bush garden)
11.30-12pm Incorporating permaculture design principles into a bush food garden with Ulrike from Baroota creek olives
12pm Desert Voices choir and Roo sausage sizzle with Landcare volunteers
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Guest speakers at the 2024 Quorn Quandong Festival are sponsored by the SA Arid Lands Landscape Board and Quorn Community Landcare Group, supported by FRRR through funding from the Australian Government's Future Drought Fund.
In conjunction with SA Arid Lands and the Pithi Kawi Bush Food Garden, this curriculum of events is fascinating and informative.