Hands-on Adventure and Homesteading Experience at Pindari Centre

Day 1

• ATV tour of the property visiting the grass trees paddocks, balancing rock, the dam and morning tea at the stone hut.
• 11.00am Hydroponics and wicking bed session.
• 12.00 pm Lunch
• 1.00pm Suit up with protective gear for our bee hives and honey extraction exercise.
• Chicken tractor demonstration or Chicken raising session including incubators and brooder box setups.
• 3.00pm Afternoon tea
• 3.30pm Preparing goat feed with a small grain roller mill then feeding and milking goats session, including milk pasteurisation.
• 5.00pm GPS hike to Dagwood rock to visit a solar pumping plant. (Arrangement can be made for those unable for a 2km hike).
• Check out the Solar water pump on the creek and talk about how it goes through an Osmosis plant before drinking.
• 6.30pm Dinner in the dining room.
• 7.30pm Mystery light on the hill night walk
• 8.30pm Around the campfire session

Day 2

• 8.00am Breakfast followed by a reflection for the day
• 9.00am Homemade bread and yoghurt/cheese making session
• 12.00pm Lunch
• 1.00pm Final session and wrap up. Departure mid-afternoon

Day 1

• 10.00am Introduction to Pindari.Includes ATV tour of the main features of the property, lunch at the, lunch at the “stone hut” Pindari homesteading tutorial, lets visit farm.
• 6.00pm Dinner
• 7.00pm City of the bees
• 7.30pm Q&A (diary time)

Day 2

• 8.00am Breakfast
• 8.30am Pindari reflections
• 9.00am Video and discussion what is homesteading
• 10.30am Morning tea
• 11.30am Protective suiting up for a visit to the bees and extract honey. Honey uses etc
• 12.00pm Lunch
• 1.00pm Preparing feed for goats and chickens from raw grain using a roller mill Egg incubation demonstrations and techniques, brooder boxes and chicken tractor demonstration
• 3.00pm Afternoon tea
• 3.30pm Milking goat tutorial film. Feeding the goats then Goat milking “hands on” demonstration pasteurisation and storage.
• 6.00pm Dinner
• 7.00pm Spectacular night life at Pindari through the lens of infrared binoculars and high powered spotlights. Then diary time and campfire chat.

Day 3

• 8.00am Breakfast
• 8.30am Pindari reflections
• 9.00am Bush hike using handheld GPS units to the big solar unit at Dagwood rock on Spring Creek. Tutorial on the uses of GPS for homesteading (Alternate transport for those who cannot walk 2 kms)
• 12.00pm Lunch
• 1.00pm Bread making and yoghurt/cheese making hands on afternoon in our commercial kitchen
• 6.00pm Dinner… including fresh hot bread
• 7.00pm Homesteading film, followed by Q&A then diary time and campfire chat

Day 4

• 8.00am Breakfast
• 8.30am Pindari reflections
• 9.00am Constructing a wicking bed and worm farm including worm casting soil health and regeneration techniques. Water conservation methods including trickle irrigation.
  Note, Pindari has a commercial worm farm waste management system able to handle the effluent and waste of up to 100 guests
• 12.00pm Lunch
• 1.00pm Canning preserving and fermentation processes, including a preserving hands-on bottling activity
• 3.00pm Afternoon tea
• 3.30pm Cooking session using freshly harvested food and depending on seasonal vegetables it could including a potato and leek, tomato, onion or pumpkin soup with home made bread
• 6.00pm Dinner
• 7.00pm Night walk to the “Light on the hill” followed by diary time and fireside chat.

Day 5

• 8.00am Breakfast
• 8.30am Pindari reflections
• 9.00am The spiritual, ethical and community dimensions of homesteading
• 10.30am Workshop Planning you own small-scale self-sustaining homestead project
• 12.00pm Lunch
• 1.00pm Wrap up and awarding of certificates