Posts Tagged ‘Healthy food’
« Older EntriesMarch: Sunday 11.03.2011
November 3rd, 2011
City chooks – keeping chickens in your backyard:
Start time: 1pm, Duration 1-1.30 hours,
Tutor: Gail Batten
Location: Epsom
Contribution ; $20.00
Please rsvp to: Judith Holtebrinck
Chickens in the city, with Gail Batten
This is a site visit at Gail’s garden where she will tell us what you need to get started, what they should eat and how to raise your chickens from a fertile egg. You will learn the guidelines of keeping chickens in the city, tips on housing them and other titbits of information.
This workshop covers:
* Benefits of having chickens
* Housing requirements and rules
* Feeding
* Hatching and rearing
* Health and wellbeing
* All about eggs
* Miscellaneous and troubleshooting
* Benefits of different breeds
* How to adopted a chicken
About Gail Batten:
When Gail came back from a woofing (working on organic farms) holiday a year ago, she was given some fertilised eggs as a farewell present. Back in Auckland she managed to borrow a hen from a friend of hers to sit on the eggs. A few weeks later she had baby chicks, a chook house and later lots of eggs for breakfast. In December last year she obtained more fertilised eggs and now the chook house is full of life, eggs and entertainment.
Tags: Chicken, Healthy food, Keeping chickens, local food production, Mount Eden
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April: Sunday 22.04.2012
November 3rd, 2011
Square Foot Gardening
Starting: 10.30am, Duration: 1-1.30 hours
Tutor: Ken Clark, SFG master from Waiheke
Location: Mt Eden Village
Contribution: $20.00
Please rsvp to: Judith Holtebrinck
Square foot gardening with Ken Clark from Waiheke
This is a unique chance to learn all you need to know to start and maximise food production in the city from one of New Zealand’s most successful square foot gardeners. Square foot gardening is a perfect solution for city gardens as it produces 70% more food than conventional gardens with less work. Ken will also share practical tips to improve your organic gardening skills and talk about soil maintenance, home-made organic fertiliser and seed saving.
What to expect:
- The workshops cover everything from seeds and organic gardening.
- You will get the chance to design your own Square foot garden on a map that you can take home.
- A flyer with gardening and soil information will be handed out outlining the workshop.
- After this workshop you can set up your own SFG garden and start your food production.
- To set up your own Square foot garden takes one hour.
About Ken Clark and Square foot gardening:
Ken first learnt about square foot gardening about 20 years ago. He proceeded to do it his own way for 17 years. 5 years ago he retired to Waiheke Island & started SFG in earnest. Ken lives on a small size section and produces an abundance of fruit and veges using the Square foot gardening method. SFG advocates growing only what you need on a weekly basis. It is a fantastic system for busy people who wish to have a more sustainable life and organically grow food with the minimum fuss and effort.
Tags: Food Gardens, Healthy food, local food production, Mount Eden, Mount Eden Village People, Square Foot Gardening, Workshops
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July: Sunday 22.07.2012
November 3rd, 2011
Fruit tree pruning
Starting: 1pm, Duration: 1-1.30 hours,
Location: Mt Eden Village
Contribution: $20.00
Tutor: Ken Clark
Please rsvp to: Judith Holtebrinck
What to expect:
Kens workshops are designed to show you how easy it is to feed your family with a maximum food production on minimum space. Ken keeps his trees small as he lives on a small section. Keeping his trees small makes it easier to reach the fruit and leaves space for more trees.
In this workshop you will learn how to prune and maintain your fruit trees to get maximum food production. When is the best time to prune and how to do it so the tree does not get damaged. This is a practical, hands on workshop with a simple how to do it yourself handout.
About Ken Clark:
Ken has been gardening all his life with the main focus on food production. He grew up on a farm and back then you relied on your own garden to get your dinner on the table. When Ken was 12 his parents divorced and he had to take over all the major digging in the garden and his mum did the planting.
He now lives on Waiheke on a 850 m section and produces food in abundancy to feed himself and his wife. The beauty of Kens food garden is that he has a wide variety of different fruit and vegetables for the entire year.
The benefit of having your own vegetables and fruit trees in your garden are simple:
You know where your food comes from and you don’t spend money on oil to get the food from wherever into your kitchen.
Tags: Fruit trees, Healthy food, local food production, Mount Eden, Mount Eden Village People, Pruning
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September: Sunday 16.09.2012
November 3rd, 2011
City chooks – keeping chickens in your backyard:
Start time: 1pm, Duration 1-1.30 hours,
Tutor: Gail Batten
Location: Epsom
Contribution ; $20.00
Please rsvp to: Judith Holtebrinck
Chickens in the city, with Gail Batten
This is a site visit at Gail’s garden where she will tell us what you need to get started, what they should eat and how to raise your chickens from a fertile egg. You will learn the guidelines of keeping chickens in the city, tips on housing them and other titbits of information.
This workshop covers:
* Benefits of having chickens
* Housing requirements and rules
* Feeding
* Hatching and rearing
* Health and wellbeing
* All about eggs
* Miscellaneous and troubleshooting
* Benefits of different breeds
* How to adopted a chicken
About Gail Batten:
When Gail came back from a woofing (working on organic farms) holiday a year ago, she was given some fertilised eggs as a farewell present. Back in Auckland she managed to borrow a hen from a friend of hers to sit on the eggs. A few weeks later she had baby chicks, a chook house and later lots of eggs for breakfast. In December last year she obtained more fertilised eggs and now the chook house is full of life, eggs and entertainment.
Tags: Chicken, Healthy food, Keeping chickens, local food production, Mount Eden, Mount Eden Village People, Workshops
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October: Sunday 21.10.2012
November 3rd, 2011
Square Foot Gardening
Start: 10.30am, Duration: 1-1.30 hours
Tutor: Ken Clark, SFG master from Waiheke
Location: Mt Eden Village
Contribution: $20.00
Please rsvp to: Judith Holtebrinck
Square foot gardening with Ken Clark from Waiheke
This is a unique chance to learn all you need to know to start and maximise food production in the city from one of New Zealand’s most successful square foot gardeners. Square foot gardening is a perfect solution for city gardens as it produces 70% more food than conventional gardens with less work. Ken will also share practical tips to improve your organic gardening skills and talk about soil maintenance, home-made organic fertiliser and seed saving.
What to expect:
- The workshops cover everything from seeds and organic gardening.
- You will get the chance to design your own Square foot garden on a map that you can take home.
- A flyer with gardening and soil information will be handed out outlining the workshop.
- After this workshop you can set up your own SFG garden and start your food production.
- To set up your own Square foot garden takes one hour.
About Ken Clark and Square foot gardening:
Ken first learnt about square foot gardening about 20 years ago. He proceeded to do it his own way for 17 years. 5 years ago he retired to Waiheke Island & started SFG in earnest. Ken lives on a small size section and produces an abundance of fruit and veges using the Square foot gardening method. SFG advocates growing only what you need on a weekly basis. It is a fantastic system for busy people who wish to have a more sustainable life and organically grow food with the minimum fuss and effort.
Tags: Gardening, Healthy food, local food production, Mount Eden, Mount Eden Village People, Square Foot Gardening
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Village Feast – Community celebration
May 24th, 2011
What a feast we had in the village on Sunday afternoon. Thank you to Mt Eden Maungawhau Village Centre Society for organising this wonderful event in our community. Around 100 people attended this delicious lunch prepared by master chef Ray McVinnie with brilliant entertainment by Elizabeth McRae. Money raised went toward the village centre to buy plates and cutlery for the centre kitchen and an additional $350.00 was raised to support Christchurch.
This event was kindly supported by some of our local shops. Thank you to Eden Foods, KC Loo Fruiterer, Mt Eden Traditional Butcher and Wild Wheat Bakery. A big thank you also goes to the Essential Cuisine, Regal Salmon, Sabato, Village Press Olive Oil, Wine by “The People’s Wine”.
Tags: Community, Healthy food, Mount Eden
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Create urban bio-corridors
April 28th, 2011
Planting roadside berms to create urban bio-corridors is an wonderful initiative from our friends at GreyLynn2030. We also spotted some beautiful berm planting in Sandringham. This is a great way to create biodiversity in front of your house that can be beneficial to bees and other important insects in our city and to meet your neighbours. To find out more about guidelines, suitable plants all you need to know to get started go on GL2030 website.
Tags: Auckland, Gardening, Healthy food
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Workshop: Dowsing for your home and garden
April 10th, 2011
April: Sunday 17.04.2011
When a house is connected to the main electricity supply, voltage is continually present through the wire, even if the circuit is not in use. All electrical appliances when in use, may radiate electromagnetic fields and/or microwave frequencies. Studies have shown that these fields may be detrimental to the human body. Albino Goal will introduce alternatives to balance the effect of these detrimental fields to the human body and to plants.
About Albino Gola:
Albino Gola is a BBEI Certified Electro Biology Environmental Inspector and Teacher. He is a recognised expert and consultant in Dowsing and Balancing Fields of Environmental and Geopathic Stress in Land, home and workplaces.
What to expect:
In this workshop Albino will introduce the concept of laylines, underground streams, cometic energy and the curry grids. He will demonstrate how to balance electromagnetic fields in your home and your property by using a bar code. He will explain the Hartmann net and show how to dowse for your house, garden, plants and food.
This workshop is for people who are interested in improving the general energy flow and wellbeing in their home and also for gardeners interested in increasing food production by planting fruit trees in the right location.
Tags: Gardening, Healthy food, Mount Eden
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Preparing fruit trees for a hot summer
December 15th, 2010
We had an early morning start adding more mulch around our community fruit trees and checking on their condition. We hope the additional mulch will help the trees to stay cool and moist on the really hot days. The mulch has been kindly donated by Tree Scape. Some of the mulch will also be used for the fruit trees we planted on Mt Eden in July this year.
Tags: Community, Fruit trees, Healthy food
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Fruit trees for Auckland
May 31st, 2010
Supermarket food prices have risen 28 per cent in the last year. With GST going up to 15%, once again we have to deal with the fact that food prices will increase further. Planting fruit trees in Auckland can help families save money on their grocery bill and secure free and healthy food for the future.
We are now collecting locations for possible fruit tree planting so we can continue to work together with council in 2011 once our current trial project has finished.
If you would like to have a fruit tree on the grass verge in front of your house or if you can suggest another location in your neighbourhood, please go to our fruit tree website and send us your preferred location details.
Please send us details of potential locations for neighbourhood fruit trees by signing up on our website.
All suggestions will be assessed for suitability before locations are chosen.
or join us on our facebook group to support this trial project:
FRUIT TREES FOR AUCKLAND
Tags: Food Gardens, Fruit trees, Healthy food
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