Creative facilitator promoting sustainability through gardening, cooking, craft, music, and hands-on learning in Adelaide and across South Australia

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    Individualism and Authenticity

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Hey, it’s me, Kym

Permaculturist and community educator

My name is Kym, if you ask me, I call myself a permaculturist but if you’re not sure what that is, I also call myself a “Community Educator”.

I run food preserving workshops, help people grow food, own a plant nursery, run nature craft sessions with kids and play music too.

I’m basically that guy who has spent his whole life doing sidequests and I’ve turned it into my career.

I have a strong DIY Folkpunk grassroots ethos and believe in helping individuals and local communities grow food, learn how to cook the food they’ve grown and have fun whilst we’re doing it. It’s my jam.

Join a workshop

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Food growing, cooking and artycraft workshops incoming

Want to come hang out at one of my super fun workshops? Well step into my office… or garden…?

 
 
 
 
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'Grow Good Food - 101

Sat, Jan 18th 2024, 10- 1:00pm ACDT
Location: The Farm - Clarendon

Curious about growing your own organic food, starting your own seeds and create a food forest in your garden?

Well, why not learn from two lovely creative humans- Kym & Emma! Come on a journey into the world of plants!

This course is all about growing plants to get abundant harvests and understanding important techniques in how to improve your soil, integrated pest management and plant health.

Kym is co-owner of Nomad nursery where they focus on edible plants that are all grown with organic inputs + love in the Adelaide hills and are adapted to South Australia’s climate.

Kym has spent many years growing plants for his own nursery, different farms, gardens and permaculture food growing projects for the past 6 years.

He is trained in Permaculture and also has many years of experience in his former career as a professional chef and has combined his love of sharing food food and regenerative farming

 

 
 

MISSION

 
 

Empowering folk through engaging, hands-on workshops that promote sustainable living.

 

Love to share my passion for food gardening, food preservation and cooking, Music and nature craft.

 

He cook, thumb green, he workshop machine

  • Food Gardening workshops

    Want to learn how to make a wicking bed, grow great tomatoes or compost like a champ? Enquire here!

  • Food preserving / Cooking workshops

    Jams, chutneys, sourdough bread making, fermenting and everything in between

  • Nature crafting and kids planting workshops

    Pot painting workshop, making origami seed packets, or plant propagating for kids, I keep activities fun, hands-on, and accessible for all.

Hire me to run your next workshop

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  • "Kym is the absolute guru!"

    If you’re looking for an amazing experience, look no further—Kym is the absolute GURU! We had the pleasure of having him lead a workshop at The Farm-Clarendon, and let me tell you, he knocked it out of the park.

    Kym is not just knowledgeable; he’s incredibly engaging and relatable. He encourages questions and is more than happy to share his wealth of knowledge with everyone, young and old alike. We’re already counting down the days until we can have him back! Seriously, book him up—because we can’t get enough of Kym!

    Emma
    The Farm Clarendon

  • "inspiring and knowledgeable permaculturist "

    “Kym Ormond is an inspiring and knowledgeable permaculturist who brings his passion for sustainability to every workshop. His sessions on sourdough, kimchi, sauerkraut, veggie gardening, and more are hands-on and engaging leaving people wanting more.

    Kym embodies the permaculture ethos, sharing his wisdom with the community. Highly recommended!”

    Natalie Robinson
    Community Hub Project Officer 
    The Precinct - City of Playford

Nomad Nursery

Community supported nursery in Carey Gully, South Australia

Nomad nursery is the plant-tastic collaboration between Jackson Bennett (Urbangrowboi) and myself. Together we grow seedlings, edible perennials, fruit trees and more. We use organic inputs and don’t spray our plants with herbicides, pesticides or other nasties. Find out more about where to find our plants and our seedling CSN box.

Permaculture in South Australia

 

Permaculture is a sustainable design approach that follows nature’s lead to create self-sufficient, regenerative systems for farming, gardening and even community living.

It’s all about going with the flow of nature, not against it, pushing practices like organic farming, water-saving, and boosting biodiversity to build resilient, low-impact setups that are designed for purpose.