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Create a productive sponge garden
Cost: $15 – $30
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About this Event
Join Richard Lee, EcoMatters Food Team leader in this practical, hands-on workshop at EcoMatters organic teaching garden.
Learn how to read the contour of the whenua, then design and create a productive sponge garden based on swale composting.
Plan, design and prepare now, ready for planting in the warmer months.
Benefits of Productive Sponge Gardens:
– Build the depth and health and sponginess of your soil
– Close the loop – make use of foodscrap nutrients for food production
– Plant a range of species in a polyculture system including bananas, pawpaw, sugarcane, taro, yacon (pictured)
– Slow the flow – actively reduce rainwater runoff, while ensuring your site is resilient in times of high rainfall and drought.
ABOUT:
We will be building a new ‘compost swale’ utilising food scraps collected from Second Bite our Organic Waste collection programme in partnership with Rosebank Business Association, garden waste and other compostable inputs.
This will be a practical session laying down a fresh compost bed into a newly dug swale system. Richard will also demonstrate how to manage bananas and other productive plants for maximum yield.
PLEASE BRING: Gloves, sturdy shoes or boots, a raincoat, hat and water bottle.
