Come away with an understanding of how to design and layout your own edible garden and food forest. We will be looking at things like the best spot to site your veggie beds, shelter, veggie bed options ie insitu or raised, annual v’s perennial food systems, hothouse design, crop rotation and companion planting. With regards to fruit trees and berries we will look at matching the right fruit tree to the right spot, how to create guilds and a nutrient dense, weather resilient food forest system.

Who is this for? This workshop is great for the beginner gardener, past Greenbridge clients who are looking for a deeper understanding and anyone interested in a small group tour of the Greenbridge working farmlet!

What you will come away with? As an intro to all the things you need to consider to setup an awesome edible garden, you will come away feeling inspired and know the basics of what makes an edible garden and food forest efficient, healthy and highly productive. Take away notes are provided.

What to bring? This is a hands-on and interactive workshop for a small and limited number of people. Bring your gumboots, curiosity and questions. If you have an aerial of your property feel free to bring this as there maybe a wee bit of time at the end to discuss your individual project.

About Bena Denton: Bena has been helping people design their edible gardens, lifestyle blocks and regenerative farm plans for 15 years. Her earliest memories are of being in the organic veggie garden with her chef Mum, which nurtured a love of nature, food and nutrition. Bena is co-founder of Greenbridge, an impact enterprise under the beautiful Maunga Taranaki, which has won the TRC award for ‘Environmental Leadership in Business’, featured on RNZ, and written for NZ Lifestyle Block.

Throughout Aotearoa Bena helps people develop practical and beautiful landscape plans and strategies that avoid the pitfalls, costly mistakes and fast tracks successfully healing the land and the growing of kai.