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  • Food Growing Q&A Food Growing Q&A

    461 Members

    Latest Activity: Jan 23, 2022

    Ask and Answer food growing questions here.

  • Poultry in Urbania Poultry in Urbania

    393 Members

    Latest Activity: Jan 30, 2019

    A group all about how to keep poultry including chickens, bantams,geese and ducks. Help with problems or questions and to brag about your special feathered friends.
  • Preserving Your Surplus Preserving Your Surplus

    315 Members

    Latest Activity: Jan 30, 2019

    To share ways of preserving what you've grown such as bottling, freezing, dehydrating.
  • Seasonal Recipes Seasonal Recipes

    294 Members

    Latest Activity: Jan 30, 2019

    What to do with the seasonal harvests and how to preserve it. Add your recipe below.
  • Herbs Herbs

    281 Members

    Latest Activity: Jul 30, 2016

    A group to share knowlege and ideas about growing and using herbs.
  • Bees Bees

    275 Members

    Latest Activity: Jan 30, 2019

    Whether you are a Beekeeper, would like to keep Bees or simply understand the importance of Bees, this group is for you. Viva la Bees!
  • New Zealand Seed and Plant Exchange New Zealand Seed and Plant Exchange

    264 Members

    Latest Activity: Sep 30, 2020

    Are you looking for a particular plant or seeds ? Do you have spares?Post your notices here.
  • Companion Planting Companion Planting

    261 Members

    Latest Activity: Jan 30, 2019

    Exploring which plants are beneficial to each other when planted together and which plants are best kept apart.
  • Weston A Price Weston A Price

    249 Members

    Latest Activity: Oct 29, 2016

    A group to discuss and learn more about the traditional culinary customs of our ancestors and how we can bring more nutrient dense food into our lives as researched by Dr. Weston A Price.
  • What To Do Today? What To Do Today?

    219 Members

    Latest Activity: Jan 30, 2019

    Let us know what you have been doing in the garden lately plus the tips and tricks to making it work.
  • Organic Gardening For Beginners Organic Gardening For Beginners

    217 Members

    Latest Activity: Jul 30, 2016

    An introduction to growing food and herbs without the use of poisons.
  • Auckland NZ Auckland NZ

    191 Members

    Latest Activity: Jul 3, 2016

    Tell us all what you want or what you have to offer. eg. Lemons, seedlings etc. To respond to someones listing contact them directly via their page…
  • Raw Organic Milk Raw Organic Milk

    181 Members

    Latest Activity: May 22, 2019

    A network for people interested in buying and selling raw, organic milk from local farms on a regular basis or intermittently.

  • Seed Collecting Q&A Seed Collecting Q&A

    166 Members

    Latest Activity: Jan 30, 2019

    All and any questions, answers, tips about how to collect and store seeds.
  • Becoming More Self Reliant Becoming More Self Reliant

    164 Members

    Latest Activity: Jan 30, 2019

    A lot of people have the dream of a few acres of land and self reliance (as opposed to self -sufficiency, which is a myth!). This group is to draw together the experiences of those living the dream and sharing the lessons learned on the way with…

  • Christchurch NZ Christchurch NZ

    156 Members

    Latest Activity: Nov 5, 2018

    Tell us all what you want or what you have to offer: e.g. Lemons, seedlings etc. To respond to someone's listing contact them directly via their page…
  • Food Forests NZ Food Forests NZ

    156 Members

    Latest Activity: Oct 1, 2020

    Food forests and forest gardens are promoted through permaculture . This forum is for those who are growing or would like to grow one in their property.

  • Vermiculture Vermiculture

    154 Members

    Latest Activity: May 12, 2018

    This group is for anyone who is interested in worm farming as a means of recycling their waste organic materials.
  • NZ Ooooby Seedbank NZ Ooooby Seedbank

    148 Members

    Latest Activity: Jan 30, 2019

    A group for those who wish to save heirloom and open pollinated seed and make it availiable to others.List what you have in the appropriate discussion forum or add a new discussion for different seed types.
  • Planting By the Moon Planting By the Moon

    134 Members

    Latest Activity: Apr 7, 2015

    A group for sharing questions, experience and knowledge about planting by moon phases.
  • Urban Homesteaders Urban Homesteaders

    127 Members

    Latest Activity: Feb 17, 2017

    Growing and do things the old way.Do you grow your own vege, make soap, use herbs, cut your own firewood, long for the pioneer days where it literally came from your own back yard. If you do then this is the group for you.
  • Wellington NZ Wellington NZ

    126 Members

    Latest Activity: Aug 13, 2016

    Tell us all what you want or what you have to offer. eg. Lemons, seedlings etc. To respond to someones listing contact them directly via their page…
  • Vegetarian Recipes Vegetarian Recipes

    123 Members

    Latest Activity: Apr 13, 2016

    We all love vegetables & growing them - that's why we are here on Ooooby. I'm sure there must be some vegetarian's or people with vegetarian family or friends in our community, so why not join and share... Got a favourite vegetarian recipe?
  • Ooooby-versity Ooooby-versity

    122 Members

    Latest Activity: Jan 15, 2014

    A place to learn from each other about growing food.