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DAY WORKSHOPS $100)
(small groups of 12 people max)
All workshops come with detailed notes, and we stop for morning and afternoon tea, which is provided. Course participants bring something for a shared lunch.
Course content is covered below under each workshop heading – scroll down for details.
Biodynamics and Moon Calendar Workshop (Spring/Summer/Autumn)
This workshop covers an introduction to biodynamics for the home gardener.
- Look at the various Biodynamic preparations and find out what they do for our soil and plants
- Understand the right times of the month to put the preparations on the soil/plants
- A practical preparation 500 stir and application in the permaculture garden at Korito in New Plymouth.
- An introduction to the biodynamic moon planting calendar and how it is used to find the best times to sow seeds, transplant, make compost, put on fertilisers and sprays and prune and chop firewood.
Pruning workshop (winter)
Learn to prune a variety of productive fruit trees:
- Apples
- Pears
- Plums
- Citrus
- Feijoas
Workshop participants will learn about:
- Equipment
- Techniques
- Apical dominance
- Shapes
- Timing of pruning
- What to prune
- Identifying fruiting buds
- Tying down
Workshop participants get hands on experience of making pruning cuts, deciding on tree shapes, pruning, and tying down.