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Christy Ralphs
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Food Forests NZ
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NZ Ooooby Seedbank
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WAIHEKE ISLAND LANDSHARE…
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Edible New Zealand Nativ…
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- Suburb
- Oneroa, Waiheke Island
- Food Growing Skill Level
- Moderate
- Experience and Qualifications
- Viticulturalist
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- Swapping Food, Community Gardens, Learning, Preserving, Helping Others, Seed Savers
- Tell us about your garden and what you're growing
- Boysenberries,
Loganberries
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my blog which has pics & comments about my garden is
Island Gardening
i'm always keen to swap/trade/barter for produce, particularly fruit, as my orchard is still young, and not producing much. large quantities of fruit that are suitable for preserves are always welcome - can give back some as jams/sauces etc if that works for you. for significant items/amounts will consider bartering our vino too.
happy gardening!
Christy Ralphs's Blog
Duck Housing
on duck houses. Ducks don't technically need housing, but I wanted to
pen the ducks in during the night, so I could collect their eggs.
Otherwise it is 'hunt the eggs' or, as I discovered, try and get them
before the pukeko do. And pukeko rise early. There is a lot of info
about chicken coops, not so much for ducks.…
Posted on September 23, 2010 at 9:48pm
Olive Harvest
For me, the olive harvest marks the end of the harvest season here on Waiheke. And nicely timed this year, with the drought just broken (57mm of rain last week at our place!), and the arrival of the first wintry weather. We picked just over 30kg of koroneiki olives on Saturday, which is a very small amount really, and so we are very lucky to be able to add them to someone else's olives to have them pressed. More pictures and info on my blog:… Continue
Posted on May 23, 2010 at 7:52pm — 1 Comment
Earth Bag Garden Seat
Over the weekend we hosted some lovely students and their tutors and now have a brand new seat in our food forest area. Full details are posted on my blog:… Continue
Posted on May 11, 2010 at 1:00pm
Honey Harvest
Meet the latest fledgling beekeeper. She helped with the honey harvest. I love that smile on her face - pure happiness. We took off eight frames a couple of days ago, which will leave about eight frames per hive for
the bees over winter, and a couple extra per hive to put into the
freezer in case they run out - that's a tip I picked up from the bee
club meeting…
Posted on March 13, 2010 at 9:34pm — 1 Comment
Future BeeKeepers & First Honey Harvest
I managed to squeeze in quite a lot of bee time over the weekend. On Saturday I took Alex up to have his first proper look at our bees. I picked up a second hand child's bee suit for him and Melina to wear, and
it does look cute. I also thought a six year old boy would quite like being in charge of the smoker. …
Posted on February 22, 2010 at 11:40pm
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> you need someone who is a tree expert - southern woods nursery?
> tree crops association?
I am a tree expert. ;-)
I a looked up southern woods nursery. They have only seedlings or ornamental varieties.
I'm member of the NZTCA. I asked Jennifer Hutson about this plants. So far no answer. :-(
cheers
Andy
Hello Christy,
> if I lived a wee bit closer I'd offer to help out...
you can help.
We are looking for *fruit* *varieties* of:
- Hickory (Carya ovata)
- Heartnut (Juglans ailanthifolia cordiformis)
- Pecan (Carya illinoinensis)
- Gingo (Ginko biloba)
- Filbert Hazelnut (Corylus maxima)
- Saskatoon (Amelanchier alnifolia or A. canadensis)
We also searching Shipmast Black Locust
(Robinia pseudoacacia) 'Rectissima' or/and ‘Appalachia'.
Large trees, small trees or cuttings would be appreciated.
We also looking for 2000 seeds of respectively:
- Siberian peashrub (Caragana arborescens)
- Osage orange (Maclura pomifera)
- Mexican alder (Alnus jorullensis)
For wind shelter belt.
Do you know a source of these plants and seeds ?
Andy
Fantastic! Thanks for sharing your photos. Fast growing semi tropical plants wouldn't survive down here in Southland - it took us 8 years to get to the stage you are at after only 3!
Thanks Christy.
How about tomorrow just before 1pm to pick up the banana passionfruit?
came across this wonderful blog site..
http://gardenofeatingblog.blogspot.com/
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