About

Gender

Male


Location

Auckland


Suburb

Grafton


I can offer

Food from my garden


Food Growing Skill Level

Moderate


I am interested in...

Community Gardens, Learning, Preserving, Helping Others, Seed Savers, Swapping Food, Eating Local Food


Tell us about your garden and what you're growing

Climbing Beans (10+ varieties), Tomatoes (5+ varieties), Sweetcorn, Cucumber, Peas, Choko, Radishes, Carrots, Pak Choi, Broccoli, Potatoes, Rocket, all sorts of Lettuce, Strawberries, Raspberries, Naranjila, Figs, Grapes, Olives, Guava, Broad Beans, Silverbeet, Spinach, Spring Onions, Capsicums, Eggplant, Zucchini, Rockmelon, Watermelon, Pumpkin, Squash, Cress, Tamarilos, Kale, trying companion planting/beneficial insect attraction/medicinal herbs with Sunflowers, Marigolds, Mina Lobata, Lavender, Nasturtium, Echinacea, Wildflowers, Phacelia Tanacetifolia, Cleome, Foxglove, Calendula, Borage and also Comfrey for the compost, and trying Blue Lupins and Mustard as a green manure cover crop... And though i'm not growing them exactly, i'm collecting copious amounts of fallen leaves from a nearby park and surrounding streets for leaf mould/potting mix down the the track... I've challenged myself to use only found/second-hand/re-used/re-configured materials in the garden wherever possible... and it's almost always possible. Half a day clearing a friends' bamboo patch and the resulting stakes have proved invaluable... Now there's bamboo everywhere. Also i'm gently cultivating my own... Luckily i have an understanding/uncaring landlady (though she won't allow chickens as she lives over the back fence... Curses!)


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  • Charlotte Freer Gordon March 7, 2011 at 12:36am

    Hey Adam.

    Good to see you on Saturday.  Hope you had a good weekend.  I just reaslised I don't have your regular email address.  Could you email me at charlimaar@gmail.com and I'll send you the minutes from our meeting.

    Peace, Char

  • Charlotte Freer Gordon March 2, 2011 at 11:53pm

    Hey Adam...just thought I'd let you know we're having a meeting this Saturday about the Green Screen (the enviro-doco evenings).  Can't remember if you said you were interested, but if you are we're meeting at Café Jafa by Grey Lynn School on Saturday morning 10.30am  It won't be more than an hour or so, as I have other things to do on Saturday.

     

    See you there maybe, Char

  • Laine October 13, 2010 at 8:32am
    Welcome to the Self Sufficiency group Adam. Looks like your have done great things in an urban space!
  • Angie Gibbons September 20, 2010 at 11:27am
    Hi, ange_nz@yahoo.com 5707546
    How about friday almost anytime free or 9-10aM mornings weds and thurs
    or times on the weekend
  • Angie Gibbons September 17, 2010 at 9:25pm
    Would love to visit! let me know when you are free. I will be in town on sunday after 10am, but any other time would be ok also.
    Angie
  • Angie Gibbons September 15, 2010 at 9:10pm
    Hi, I was wondering if I could come and visit? ALso ig you asre at any point interessed in a group comoing to visit you?

    I think I met you at a dirt doctor ooooby event/

    Angie
  • Pete Russell September 15, 2010 at 2:59am
    Sweet. Let's chat about it on the 7th of Oct if you can make it.
  • Pete Russell September 15, 2010 at 12:21am
    This is the first time I have browsed through your photos. You're really going for it! Would you be up for a group visit to explore what you have going on?
  • Pete Russell September 15, 2010 at 12:20am
    Hey Adam. Just letting you know that we have decided to hold ooooby-versity sessions monthly now instead of weekly. First Thursday of the month. Next session will be on the 7th of October.
  • Brooke Walker March 2, 2010 at 11:14pm
    So glad you enjoyed the tour. I had a good time giving it. I will try and get the photo from Joanna at New Lynn Primary and put it on ooooby. They were so cute and proud. Thanks for the feedback.
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