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 […]
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'll begin the day at Dave and Raewyns (454 Takapu Rd, Tawa) with all the […]
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'll begin the day with all the basics: Tools, when to prune, choosing a shape, […]
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'll begin the day with all the basics: Tools, when to prune, choosing a shape, […]
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'll begin the day with all the basics: Tools, when to prune, choosing a shape, […]
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’ll begin the day with all the basics: Tools, when to prune, choosing a shape, […]
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.
