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Food Forest Hui – September 26-28
Ten of the best permaculture designers from around the country, are converging on Auckland from September 26th-28th to offer New Zealand’s first three day Food Forest Hui and Training.If you hold a...
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Food Forest in a box
Have you ever wondered how many plants you might need for a food forest? Well take a look at this, and you’ll get a good feeling for the numbers.Andy Cambeis is spending some time on Waiheke and we got...
View ArticleTransitioning Surfdale Orchard to a Food Forest
We moved 18 Cu M of mulch around the 5 year old trees in the Surfdale community orchard yesterday.This is a step in replacing the grasses (such as Kikiuyu) with ground cover plants of our choosing...
View ArticleA one acre food forest in Waihi
I got alerted to this project by Carl Pickens, while in the final weeks leading up New Zealand's first Food Forest Hui (Sep 26-28). More information on the Hui.read more
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Building community like a forest
The first New Zealand Food Forest Hui, held in Auckland last week was a high energy and over-subscribed event (we had sold out and had people in a waiting list). Here are some of the highlights and...
View ArticleScaling up Transition - Accelerate Aotearoa anyone?
I innocently pressed play on this video on Tuesday night and did not expect what followed. This 30 minute video is in Rob's words "his favourite talk" from the recent trip he did to the US, after...
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Transitioning to sustainable and regenerative food production
Enormous opportunities are opening up as we transition from an unsustainable industrial food production and distribution model, to one that regenerates the very soil and land that supports...
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Ripples from the Occupy movement
It's been nearly three years since the Occupy movement burst onto the stage and made it's splash. It highlighted global inequities and the failures of big power and money to ensure we attend to the...
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Stefan Sobkowiak – Beyond Organic
This two hour interview makes for an important addition to the knowledge shared in the Permaculture Orchard film. In it Stefan talks about the next piece of the puzzle, soon to be released from Miracle...
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Changing the way we grow (and distribute) food
Over the past few decades we've learned how to move beyond the monoculture model of production, to work with nature and grow food, while enhancing and regenerating ecological systems. The Beyond...
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Ooooby is Crowdfunding
Ooooby’s mission is to make local food convenient, affordable and fair everywhere. To do this it has developed a lean-efficient distribution model, that can scale by being replicated to serve the local...
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