My favourite workshop – the workshop that really gets your food gardening humming, that changes your food gardening life! – is coming to Tauranga in January. I’m very excited to be teaching from the Crafty Gatherer homestead (home of the broadfork). “This workshop is the best money I’ve spent on my garden” Bryan “What an […]
Chooks fit into an edible backyard like honey in tea. They tick lots of boxes for the edible gardener – organic fertiliser providers, expert bug hunters, a weeding service, endless delight and eggs too! Learn how: to create a smart chicken design at your place - how much room do they need?, tips for housing […]
Celebrate the end of summer with us! I'll take you for a garden tour and chat about what's worked and what hasn't - all the good stuff I've learned this summer. Then we'll park up round the slab table and Matty will roll us up woodfired Margherita pizza (homegrown, homemade basil pesto, fresh picked tomatoes […]
If you want to feed your family from your backyard – today is for you! Come along and check out a working food garden. Gather your favourite people and leave the world behind. Learn Good Stuff I’ll be giving a talk at 11am. "Keep Your Vegie Patch Going!" Build on the fertility of the season […]
Join Sarah Frater from Edible Garden (our local fruit tree specialist); and myself for the ultimate fruit tree workshop! We’ll be talking smart design for Pipfruit, Stonefruit, Citrus and Avocado, key companion plants and the importance of rootstocks. Choosing varieties is overwhelming and it's easy to stick to the familiar - the ones you see […]
A workshop to boost your pruning confidence. Good pruning = good fruiting! Compact and productive fruit trees can happen :) Though the best (and simplest) time to start is when trees are young - wild and woolly trees can be tamed too. I'll demo a mix of pipfruit - a young apple in training, an […]
Today we're pruning in the Kaiapoi Food Forest. I'll run through the basic's and we'll demo on a few trees. Then from 2.30 - 4 we're in the community centre for afternoon tea and a talk. Followed by the movie "Edible Paradise - Growing the Food Forest revolution". What a great day! My pruning book […]
A workshop to boost your pruning confidence. Good pruning = good fruiting! Compact and productive fruit trees can happen ? Though the best (and simplest) time to start is when trees are young – wild and woolly trees can be tamed too. We've got a couple of pears, a peach, a fig, some feijoas, a […]
Food and drink We’ll kick off with coffee + tea + home baked goodness (included in the price of your ticket). Hot scones + a gluten free something. Learn good stuff Today I’m talking February in the vegie patch - things to do and notice and think about. Important stuff like maintaining top knotch health […]
Edible Backyard is Kath Irvine’s permaculture home garden. Created to support you on your journey to becoming a food gardener, Kath teaches you how to design and run your own low work + low input yet highly productive Edible Backyard.
