Gender

Male

Location

Tauranga

Birthday:

February 21

Suburb

Matua

Post / Zip Code

3110

I am a...

Home Farmer

I can offer

Gardening & yard labour, Gardening advice, Lead a workshop, Permaculture design

Food Growing Skill Level

Confident

Experience and Qualifications

Permaculture Experience, Permaculture Design Certificate, WWOOFer, Horticulturalist, Lots of years in the garden, Food Forest

I am interested in...

Buying Local Food, Selling Local Grown Food, Bartering Local Food, Community Gardens, Learning, Preserving, Helping Others, Seed Savers, Offering Land for Gardeners, Gardening on others Land, Food Forest

Tell us about your garden and what you're growing

I am the Farm Unit Manager at Waihi College. Among other things we have just started an Urban Farming course based on our new school permaculture orchard. I also am practicing permaculture in my (rented) back yard. At Waihi College we are developing an intensive crop rotation system of annuals suitable for our farm, in amongst our newly planted experimental orchard, of over 20 varieties of fruit, mostly heirloom varieties from Koanga. At my home I am experimenting with Dwarf Cavendish bananas (the global commercial variety) to see how they fare in our warming climate. We also have a range of citrus, plus guavas, raspberries and grapes. My annuals are based in a bed that I am encouraging to become feral/minimal care. I will soon have a simple barrel-based rainwater harvesting system for summer irrigation. Aquaponics is currently just a dream, but is our next major project.