Location

Ngatea,

Birthday:

August 28

Suburb

Hauraki

Post / Zip Code

3597

I can offer

Gardening advice, to be a gardening buddy, Food from my garden, Preserving

Food Growing Skill Level

Confident

Experience and Qualifications

Lots of years in the garden

I am interested in...

Buying Local Food, Bartering Local Food, Learning, Preserving, Helping Others, Seed Savers

Tell us about your garden and what you're growing

We began our food forest in december 2008 with peach, plum, nectarine, apple, persimmon, cherry, orange, lemon and fejoa trees and an existing old grape vine Next came our raised vegetable beds with a large variety including; broccoli, cauli, brussels sprouts, beans, cabbage, kale, peanuts, lettuce, tomato, beetroot, onion, leeks, capsicum, aubergine, potato, kumara, swiss chard, silverbeet, carrots, pumpkins, corn, asparagus, celery, radish, purslane, kohl rabi, sorrel, spinach, swedes, turnips, peas, mesculun, melons, zucchini/marrow,strawberry spinach etc we have herbs waiting in temporary garden space for their new home (currently planning and digging a formal traditional circular herb garden): angelica, bay, oregano, majorum, sages, soapwort, mint, anise hyssop, thyme, chamomile, ladies mantle, borage, comfrey, lemon balm, bergamont, and more berries also awaiting a patch of their own: cape gooseberry, raspberry, blackcurrant, loganberry, with well-establish wild blackberries (we live in the country) The pig is contained away from the garden, but we do occasionally have to share our spoils with the free range hens in our lives.