Program

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)

All Day Town Treasure Hunt (Maps at the visitor center)

9.15am-10am Nukunu Cultural burning story (Town Hall)

10am-11am Kids activity-Bush food seed bomb making (Quorn bush food garden)

10am-12pm Wattle seed, Muntries and Quandongs-Growing bush foods in low rainfall regions with Matthew Koop, Neville Bonney and Angus Jones (Town Hall)

12.30pm-1.30pm Railway Bob Show (Town Hall - Ticketed event)

2pm-2.30 Wattle seed roasting with Angus Jones (Town center - Wattle We Eat market stall)

2pm-4pm Propagating Quandongs (Quorn bush food garden)

2pm-4pm Painted pot Activity for families (Quorn Kindergarten, 3 Second St. $10 fee) 

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Sunday 27th Oct

6.30am-7.15am Sunrise Yoga (Quorn Bush Food Garden) 

8am-9am Guided Walk - Quorn Flora Reserve (Quarry Road)

10am-12pm Bush food garden hands on workshop (Quorn Bush Food Garden)

- Growing muntries with Mathew Koop 

- Compost and worm farming workshop - making great soil for a bush garden with Iain Dunk

- Bush hut master class - building a native food bush hut for nature play with Ben McCallum 

- Bush food pollinators-building habitat for native bees with Patricia Slattery 

- Incorporating permaculture design principles into bush food gardens & striking cuttings  

- Desert voices choir and Roo sausage sizzle with Landcare volunteers 

All Day Pithi Kawi Walk treasure hunt (Start at Visitor Centre Railway station)

2pm-3pm Guided Walk-Native bees of the Flinders Ranges and habitat types with Patricia Slattery (Powell Gardens)

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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.