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Suburb: Hikurangi

Post / Zip Code: 0182

I am a...: Smallholder

I can offer: Gardening advice, Food from my garden, Preserving

Food Growing Skill Level: Confident

Experience and Qualifications: Horticulturalist, Lots of years in the garden

I am interested in...: Buying Local Food, Selling Local Grown Food, Bartering Local Food, Preserving, Helping Others, WWOOFA Hosting, Seed Savers

Tell us about your garden and what you're growing: We have a large vegetable garden on clay loam soil so we add lots of compost. We are growing lots of garlic this year. We also have a good sized plum orchard and lots of other fruit trees, a house cow and chooks.

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UK trip

Off to the UK shortly, to visit family and see heritage orchards, organic farms and farmers' markets. Looking forward to learning heaps :-)

Posted on June 5, 2013 at 10:05am — 1 Comment

Wiltshire Horn Sheep

We have been selling sheep and lambs, reducing our flock to the best shedders. Wiltshires are an old breed, they are easy to look after as they don't (shouldn't!) need shearing.

I love their long faces and their horns, and they look great when they fully shed. If they half shed, they look really scruffy!

Posted on April 9, 2013 at 7:24pm

Pumpkins

Hey, wonderful how they just grow, isn't it? We put them in really late, but it has been such a long dry (extremely dry) summer, and there they are, so many of them. Wonderful!

Posted on April 8, 2013 at 4:35pm

http://hukerenuigardens.wordpress.com/

Started a blog about growing for the local market!

Posted on March 22, 2013 at 1:23pm — 1 Comment

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At 10:46pm on May 20, 2013, Sheryl Kitchen said…: Sorry. Janine I can't remember if I thanked you for the parsnip seeds. I have been away on holiday and had this horrible thought that I hadn't been in touch. Got back in the dark so have no idea what state the garden is in.

At 11:31am on April 15, 2013, Julia Prentice said…: Hi Janine!

Thanks so much for dropping off more corn plants, wool and dye. Sorry I missed you. I was driving back from dropping Cameron at school when I drove past you (waiting it the lights at Regent)

I cooked up several batches of wild ginger (from my neighbour) then killed my frypan *sniff* but I'm now the proud owner of a woodburner? BBQ so can get cracking on cooking up the corn to make into paper.

I hope all is well with you.

miss you,

Julia

At 5:10pm on December 12, 2011, Janet Byers said…: Hi Janine

We are thrilled to have eight chicks from the 12 eggs, one died, and three didn't hatch. One chick is white, two are very dark, and the rest various shades of brown. The very dark ones have slightly longer tails, so we think they may be roosters, do you have any thoughts on that? All are very vigorous and happy, and I have put a couple of pictures on my page.

It's all very exciting, thank you so much again.

Janet