COMMUNITY & SCHOOL GARDEN EVENTS
We have a great range of community led and affordable (often free) events during the Backyards Trail.
Free with Garden Entry ($3)
Join the learners as they show you around the school orchard, vegetable gardens, herb gardens, chickens, bees, distilling, worm fertiliser factory, recycling centre and the recycled bottle house.
Garden Entry ($3) plus koha
Join learners as they show you around the school's living learning areas, and be educated on how to gather local native seed and collect local seedlings for growing riparian plants.
Free with Garden Entry
Visit the inspiring campus where learners will take you on a tour of the propagation and tropical greenhouse, the māra, and Compass Hill native plantings.
Garden Entry ($3) plus koha
Join learners from Ōmata School as they tour you around their edible classroom and give regular demonstrations on how to make a bumblebee home as well as pesto from whatever is available in the garden!
Free (please register)
Sustainable Backyards Trail and Crop Swap Aotearoa are both turning 10 years old and you're invited to celebrate with us at our GIANT Crop Swap.
Free with Garden Entry ($3)
Join the learners as they show you around the school orchard, vegetable gardens, herb gardens, chickens, bees, distilling, worm fertiliser factory, recycling centre and the recycled bottle house.
Free
This Hub Show Garden Tour showcases sustainable elements in a standard-sized Taranaki suburban home/garden, implemented with the use of 100% repurposed materials.
Free with Garden Entry ($3)
Join the learners as they show you around the school orchard, vegetable gardens, herb gardens, chickens, bees, distilling, worm fertiliser factory, recycling centre and the recycled bottle house.
Free with Garden Entry ($3)
Join the learners as they show you around the school orchard, vegetable gardens, herb gardens, chickens, bees, distilling, worm fertiliser factory, recycling centre and the recycled bottle house.
Free
Learn how and what to compost and how easy it is to start turning organic waste into healthy nutrients for your garden.
Free with Garden Entry ($3)
Join the learners as they show you around the school orchard, vegetable gardens, herb gardens, chickens, bees, distilling, worm fertiliser factory, recycling centre and the recycled bottle house.
Free
Learn how and what to compost and how easy it is to start turning organic waste into healthy nutrients for your garden.
Free with Garden Entry ($3)
Join the learners as they show you around the school orchard, vegetable gardens, herb gardens, chickens, bees, distilling, worm fertiliser factory, recycling centre and the recycled bottle house.
Garden Entry ($3) plus koha
Join learners as they show you around the school's living learning areas, and be educated on how to gather local native seed and collect local seedlings for growing riparian plants.
Garden Entry ($3) plus koha
Join learners from Ōmata School as they tour you around their edible classroom and give regular demonstrations on how to make a bumblebee home as well as pesto from whatever is available in the garden!
Koha (bring any pallets you have)
Join Briar from Taranaki Realty to learn how to build with pallets: which to use, how to break them up, and how to build with the wood.
Garden Entry ($3) plus koha
Join learners as you tour the school garden and learn how to make a bumblebee home as well as pesto from whatever is available in the garden!
Koha
Bring the family along for a hands-on kid-friendly workshop about the life of a seed!
Koha
Join Jayne from Seedsavers to understand the basics of saving seeds from your garden.
Free
Come along for a guided garden tour with insights on growing practices and the tikanga that underpins Te Māra Hapori ki Parihaka.
