CANCELLED Join Michelle Ritchie for an illuminating journey underground – discover soil creatures, their ‘superpowers’, how they grow healthy food and how burying your undies can help gauge the health of your garden.

A guided bus tour with Neil Harraway to three very diverse and fascinating private gardens on the scenic Otago Peninsula. Meet and chat with the gardeners who are growing their gardens for beauty and restfulness, for food and nourishment, or to make spaces for wildlife to flourish.

Help save out apples. Come and see for yourself this tree library or scion bank and consider helping with this amazing project.

Neil Robinson will guide you through a workshop demonstrating the techniques he uses as a successful no dig market gardener and how they can be applied to your home vegetable patch.

We host the local primary school garden, nature and enviro clubs and have two collaborations running with masters students at Otago and Auckland Universities.

Pick one of 6 x 45-minute sessions

Meet and talk with Rory in his orchard-urban food garden.

Usually hosted by a different club each time, this year the Wild Dunedin team of gardening enthusiasts will be your hosts in the beautiful grounds of the University of Otago.

Pick one of 6 x 45-minute sessions

Meet and talk with Rory in his orchard-urban food garden. Be inspired!

Neil Robinson will guide you through a workshop demonstrating the techniques he uses as a successful no dig market gardener and how they can be applied to your home vegetable patch.

Michelle Ritchie shares core ethics and principles of Permaculture Design, with hands-on session utilising the no-dig method to sow and plant a diverse and resilient Food Forest.

This is a hands-on workshop with Michelle Ritchie to master hot and cold composting methods and learn how a worm farm and Bokashi system turns food waste into microbe-rich compost.

Enjoy an open day at Habitate Edible Garden, a well-established permaculture home garden. It features diverse fruits, berries, perennial vegetables, and more.

All are welcome at our Open Day at the community vegetable garden and orchard. Come along and paint some rocks to use as vegetable markers.

Tours: 10am-11.30am & 1pm-2.30pm

Restored native forest, rare exotics, Gondwana plants, tamarillo and avocado trees in Hereweka Garden.

Tours: 10am-11.30am & 1pm-2.30pm

Restored native forest, rare exotics, Gondwana plants, tamarillo and avocado trees in Hereweka Garden.

An open day to welcome people of all gardening abilities with a guided tour from 2.30pm-3.30pm.

Apple pressing, music and fruit stalls in a warm hearted harvest festival.

Pick one of 6 x 45-minute sessions

Meet and talk with Rory in his orchard-urban food garden. Be inspired!

1pm-2pm & 2pm-3pm

Screen-printing workshops that bring art and science together to celebrate native bees. (For intermediate/high school students).

Workshop on the core ethics and principles of Permaculture, and hands-on no-dig garden construction and a food forest makeover..

Workshops: 10am-12pm & 1pm-3pm

Hands-on composting with Pete Ryan demonstrating how to turn your waste into food for your garden.

Open day and two workshops at gardens affiliated with the Puketeraki Marae growing healthy organic Kai in the tradition of their tīpuna.

Workshop on how to grow food year-round despite changeable weather and greenhouse tour.

A garden lovers bus tour to four diverse gardens from sections to lifestyle.

A garden lovers bus tour to four diverse gardens from sections to lifestyle.

Discover perennial vegetables, rethink on weeds and many fruit trees in Sue Novell’s urban garden.

Nursery plant sale of native ground covers including native spinach to help retain soil moisture.

Discover perennial vegetables, rethink on weeds and many fruit trees in Sue Novell’s urban garden.

A day of nature activities for all the family.

Growing local in a regenerative way with gardeners Rory Harding, Sue Novell and Jason Ross.