4 Day Off-Grid Workshop!

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4 Days Of Learning Nature's Tools

Immerse yourself in nature’s bounty with our 4-day Off-Grid Workshop! Forget endless YouTube videos and step into a living, thriving garden with food from knowledge gained. This educational workshop, nestled in pristine natural surroundings, offers a hands-on learning experience for just R2000. Choose from comfortable accommodation or rustic camping, and whip up your own meals during this self-catering EDU-adventure.

What is the workshop about?

This workshop is not just about acquiring skills; it’s about connecting with nature, fostering self-reliance, and discovering the joy of creativity and resourcefulness. 

Louis at Magwa Falls offers you the opportunity to step off the beaten path, immerse yourself in a learning community, and return home with knowledge that will empower you for years to come.

Self-catering accommodation or camping can be booked in advance. Please call us to enquire about availability.

Workshop R2000 per person

Plus Accommodation Options Below:

✔ Camping R100pppn

✔ 5 bed Dorm R250pppn.

✔ Crowned Eagle house R450pppn minimum 3 people.

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Edu-Adventure-Holiday 2024 Dates

✔ 10-14 February
✔ 23-27 March
✔ 13-17 April
✔ 1-5 May
✔ 25-29 May
✔ 15-19 June
✔ 20-24 July
✔ 9-13 August

Interested in our off-grid workshop?

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Optional Morning Breathing Techniques & Stress Management

Start the day with balancing your energy

Learning to get rid of stress by breathing

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Medicinal plants (Show and discuss)

Respiratory diseases like flu, colds and coughing

Cuts and wounds

Broken bones

Sun burn

Liver and kidney boost

Boost immune system

Insect bites

Indoor Rocket Stove (Show and discuss)

Superb heater, plus cooking, grilling, baking, heating water and very economical on firewood of cause.

Use different models to get experience for own use or selling.

We got years of practical experience in building them, so take photos and measurements, ask questions and use them here!

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Leather bags or Hat (Practical and supplier list)

Make a small leather bag or hat!

I have more than 20 years of experience, supplied a couple of curio shops and even travelled for 4 months with it... making and selling and trance dancing... Another year spent teaching guests at Backpackers how to make their own bags...

You get several patterns from us and learn where to buy more.

Gardening (Practical)

Compost

Composting worms

Mulch

Beneficial fungi

Pest repellent

12 Vegetables

Cuttings & Grafting

Airated Compost Tea

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We use our Go Grow Educational Gardening Game, www.gogrow.co.za, as the curriculum! It's my 4-day organic Gardening Workshop… converted into a board game… ready to host workshops at projects or schools!

This game provides plenty of practical gardening tips and insight, such as how to make compost, how to cultivate and use worm farms and bacterial worm teas, and the uses and benefits of mulching.

It also contains easy brewing instructions for the making of beneficial fungi brews. The recipe for making a powerful natural pest repellent is also provided. This pest repellent can furthermore do double duty and serve as a fungicide and an immune booster too.

Dozens of planting tips are provided here for the cultivation of 12 different vegetables. This game also contains suggestions for how to deal with pests, food storage guidance – and even a couple of homemade food recipes and ideas for how to sell your produce!

All of this is aimed at growing the soil through reactivating its networks of micro-organism, which in turn will create a healthy environment for the plants to grow as well.

Compost Toilet (Show and discuss)

Our guests didn’t like the old Long drop toilet… had smells, flies, maggots, mosquitos, rats, and even snakes… so I had to come up with a smart user-friendly invention.

Now, some guests take selfies in our Loo with a View!

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Log & Pole Furniture (Show and discuss)

We made beds, chairs, countertops, tables, shelves, and shade cloth family chairs!

All made from locally  sourced wood!

Tyre Chairs (Show and discuss)

Super comfy, Extra long-lasting outdoor chairs!

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Ferro Cement Walls (Show and discuss)

Multi function cement walls

We got it down! The art of plastering welded mesh and/or chicken wire.

Use it for soil retaining walls, shower, chickencoop, wood storage small buildings or even ferro cement water tank

Modified Garden Tools (Show and discuss)

Give your wrists, joints and back a break whilst saving time!

Over the years we modified spades and forks to work better for us.

Also build our own manual rotivator and wheelbarrows!

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Wire & Plier (Practical)

This is an important skill to have! Once you understand it, it will save you money, frustrations, and time!

We also modified standard pliers into a magical tool!

Water storage & Irrigation systems (Show and discuss)

Water wise gardening!

Drip irrigation is my favourite, but we also use sprinklers & watering cans.

We bought and installed a 60 000 liter wire and tarp dam to store water. Worked so nice, we did it twice!

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Chicken Tractor (Show and discuss)

Animals in your system are needed!

Our chickens work in different camps for us, changing pests into manure...

They help to make compost. We get meat, eggs, manure, and good company.

Mustang Water Heater & Rocket Shower (Show and discuss)

Our shower water heater is way too fast to be called a Donkey water heater... so we call it a Mustang water heater! Works with a old car radiator and a bit of wood!

The rocket shower uses paraffin and is also very efficient!

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Dumpy Level (Practical)

Contour lines are needed to catch rain water.

But also to protect your soil in flooding!

What To Bring

Food / Breakfast / Cereals or simple quick food / No time to cook in mornings / Lunch / Sandwiches or similar easy food / Dinner / Braai or fire food or potjie / Gas stove available / Sometimes we all cook dinner and clean together to save time / Depending on dietary needs.

Notebook and pen or recording device.

Clothes / We can have all 4 seasons in 1 day! / So be ready for Cold, Hot, Wet, Windy and all combinations! / Gumboots for rainy weather or just morning dew is nice to have! / Sunblock and hat! / Headlamp or cellphone light.

Bottled water if you don't want to drink our rain water caught from the roof / Bring all food and snacks because we are 1 hour away from nearest shops and you wont have time to go there!

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Interested in our off-grid workshop?

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