Permaculture in New Zealand

Location: green egg lawn
10:30am. EW band EVERY OTHER TUESDAY
11.30 am. PERMACULTURE / healthy land, healthy principles
Tanya Cumberland and Charmaine Pountney from Earthtalk@Awhitu have spent seventeen years redesigning their land using permaculture principles, from a bare grazing block to a sub-tropical organic paradise. They have also applied similar principles working with local community groups
1pm. FABULOUS FOOD PRODUCTION WITH A FAMILY
Xanthe White is a landscape designer and author of an Organic Gardening book.
She has established her own sustainable backyard along with a young family.
Xanthe will talk about including children in gardening
2:30pm. EW band
3pm. HEALTHY HOMES – How to Keep Your Family Healthy Safe and Happy.
Ian Mayes, Eco Design Advisor, will speak on how to improve your “Internal Environment Quality” looking at warmth, ventilation, dust mites, and indoor pollutants.
SUSTAINABLE BACKYARD
10:30am. YOGA
11 FOWL FUN – keeping hens in the city
12 EM & BOKASHI
1pm. A HIVE OF ACTIVITY – bee keeping
2 WONDERFUL WORLD OF WORMS-composting & wormfarming
3
HERB GARDEN
10:30am HEALTHY HERBS FOR CHILDREN- Take a tour in the herb garden with added information
TE PARAPARA
11:30 A guided tour on traditional Maori food with Wiremu Puke
KITCHEN GARDEN
10:30am. QUICK GUIDE TO GROWING VEGES WITH YOUR CHILDREN
& A guide to working with your children to establish & work a vege garden. This will cover sowing seeds, transplanting & general 1pm. maintenance of a vege plot. plus
A KITCHEN GARDEN TOUR
Beatrix will give a you a guided tour of the kitchen garden