Organic Teaching Garden - Working Bee and Shared Lunch

EcoMatters Organic Teaching garden is a space where our community can join in and learn about a range of sustainable gardening ideas in one location.

This is a great chance to get involved in your local organic garden.

As we head into the growing season, we would love extra help to give the gardens a bit of a spruce up and prepare for spring.

The garden is located at 4 Olympic Place New Lynn, and is just across the road from EcoMatters bike hub.

Ideas for the day (let us know what you're interested in)

• Harakeke clean up, sugarcane and banana plant maintenance

• Light weeding, spreading compost or mulch

• Food forest pruning

• Divide and pot up edible perennials

• Bathtub wormfarm TLC

• Some of our basic garden structures need repair or rebuilding. We build these with upcycled and repurposed materials to help protect the vege beds from wild chickens.

Materials needed - please get in touch if you can donate:

• Sturdy untreated timber needed 2.5 and 4.5m lengths

• Bamboo poles needed to rebuild a garden frame (50mm dia x 2.5m lengths min)

• Divisions of edible perennials (strawberries, herbs etc) for our community kai berm planting

BYO Gear

Tools are available to use, but if you have your own, please bring along

Gloves

Sturdy covered shoes / boots

Raincoat / hat

Water bottle / snacks

Lunch 12.30-1pm

Vege soup provided

Tea / coffee

Shared kai contributions welcome!

Let us know what you'd like to focus on, so we can plan the day.

Contact meg@ecomatters.org.nz

NB. Please click on 'Get tickets' (free) so we know numbers and can contact you incase of postponement.

If today doesn't work for you, our organic teaching garden sessions are held each Friday 11-2pm.