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Nursery Fruit Tasting Day 2-4pm 17/3/24
Each year we really look forward to our Nursery fruit tasting day where we invite you to try a great …
2023 Fruit Nursery Tour & Fruit Tasting Sessions
Kia ora! I hope that you can join us in Waitati for one or more of our 2023 winter nursery catalogue promotion …
Urban Permaculture Design Workshop 2020
This workshop was run in 2020, let us know if you would be interested in attending a future workshop.
Autumn Tours & Workshops 2020
I look forward to seeing you at one or all of our events: Nursery & home garden tour, fruit tasting, …
2019 Nursery & Garden Tour, Harvest Celebration & New Plants For Sale
Kia ora! Tour of our Certified Organic Heritage Fruits Nursery & our Quarter Acre Home Garden: Sunday 5th May 10:30am …
2019 Nursery Catalogue Release and Apple Tasting at George Street Orchard!
This year we stoked to be releasing our 2019 Fruits Nursery Catalogue and holding our Apple Tasting at the Open …
2018 Fruit Tree Grafting Workshop
fruit tree grafting workshop central Dunedin learn how to graft your own fruit trees how to graft new trees and …
Edible Forest Gardening – Home Garden Essentials, 2018
I was contacted by Debby Luquette, a Master Gardener with the Pennsylvania Extension Service in the USA, for permission to …
Habitate Nursery & Taste Nature Gardens OPEN DAY 2018
We hope that you can come to our open day, tour our nursery and Taste Nature Gardens, taste some apples …
Fruit Tree Grafting Workshop 2017
Learn to graft your own fruit trees. Grafting young, and reworking old trees covered in this workshop. You will take …
2017 Fruit Tree Training Workshop
Fruit Trees Training Workshop Waitati, 23rd July 2017 Hope to see you there! Anyone on Otago Peninsula keen? We are …
Plants We Supply – Plant Descriptions
See our nursery page / order form for what is available this season Key Dessert Fruit is eaten raw, with …
Habitate Nursery & Taste Nature Gardens Open Day 2017
We hope that you can come to our open day, tour our nursery and Taste Nature Gardens, taste some apples …
Small Scale Chicken Workshop
Sunday 16th October 10-3pm Waitati This workshop is hosted by Otago Organics and will be tutored by Nick Holmes and …
2016 Fruit Tree Grafting Workshop
fruit tree grafting workshop learn how to graft your own fruit trees how to graft new trees and old trees …
2016 Fruit Tree Training & Pruning Workshop
fruit tree training pruning, planting & care workshop maximise crops & minimise work by training tree branches to horizontal a …
Fruit Tree Planting, Training & Pruning Guide
Care of your Bare Rooted Plants Bare rooted plants can be kept in their packaging for a few days. Keep …
Habitate Nursery & Taste Nature Gardens Open Day 2016
We warmly invite you to our annual nursery open day, this year its combined with Taste Nature Gardens (http://www.tastenature.co.nz/the-garden/). Bring …
Fruit Tree Grafting Workshop 2015
fruit tree grafting workshop learn how to graft your own fruit trees how to graft new trees and …
Fruit Tree Training & Pruning Workshop 2015
fruit tree training pruning, planting & care workshop maximise crops & minimise work by training tree branches to horizontal a …
Human Nature Food Systems Design – Stefan Sobkowiak Workshops
In this article I reflect on the Beyond Organic Tour workshops we hosted in April 2015. These were led by …
“Great Gooseberries!”
Order your black currant & gooseberry bushes online now, for june and August delivery. Great sized healthy plants, at a …
Small Scale Chicken Care Workshop
Small scale chicken keeping workshop with Nick Holmes and Jason Ross. Venue: Habitate Farm and Jason’s Home Garden. Covering chicken …
Beyond Organic – Stefan Sobkowiak Workshops – Habitate Farm April 1st
Internationally recognised speaker and orchardist Stefan Sobkowiak is visiting New Zealand from Canada. An extensive calendar of 20 events has …
Vegetable Planting Calendar for Coastal Otago & Southland
This wall chart is invaluable to home vegetable growers. It provides a quick reference guide to sowing and planting throughout …
Food Forests are a Growing Trend in Landscaping
Commercial Horticulture magazine October/November 2014 by Trish Hosking
Habitate in Down in Edin – Dunedin’s New Arts, Culture and Lifestyle Magazine
Dunedin’s new arts, culture and lifestyle magazine is going to have regular articles about permaculture. The first issue includes a …
Fruit Tree Grafting Workshop 2014
Last year we had a great day and were able to work outside, I hope to see you there this …
Fruit Tree Pruning – An Interview with Maureen Howard
Jason shares his deep understanding of FRUIT TREE PRUNING on the Eco Living in Action radio show, originally aired on …
The Many Benefits of Semi-Dwarf Heritage Apple Trees
Semi-Dwarf Discovery Apple Tree. 1.8m high and 2.5m wide! With a good heavy crop. The primary reason that we like …
Food Forest Workshop
Food forest workshop December 2013 at the Bathgate Park Community Gardens, South Dunedin. It will be an inspiring and practical …
Permaculture Food Forests Talk
A talk by Jason Ross at the July Permaculture Dunedin Meeting – All Welcome Permaculture Dunedin holds monthy meetings with …
Neighbourhood Nirvana
It was really nice to have Robert and Robyn Guyton over recently, they were quite taken with how my kids …
Early Summer Tasks in the Orchard
We have just thinned the very good fruit set of apples from the nursery cordon, otherwise it would have been …
Spring Food Forests / Edible Forest Gardens
I just adore this time of year in the edible garden. I especially enjoy the food forest (edible forest garden) …
