Is the SBT Use our interactive online map! Visit the website below or scan the QR for you? code for access to our Google Map ‘Sustainable Backyards 2016’ complete with descriptions and times. Would you like to: www.tinyurl.com/SBY2016 Explore working productive gardens rather than manicured lawns and pretty flowers? FOR MORE INFORMAT ION CONTACT Engage with hosts to find out about how they reached this point, why and what’s next? [email protected] Gain tricks, tips and ideas to make a sustainable change in your own backyard? Thank you to our Just remember to... generous sponsors Carry coins for garden entry ($2 per adult) and possible purchases. Respect the opening hours/set tour times. Wear appropriate footwear, especially around rural properties and on wet days. ur way aro ind yo und W Ta ra n ing inspir a as in k c g i w o a a

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Maxine and family live off-grid on 47 acres of mostly steep, Lorraine’s suburban 1/4 acre dispels the myth that organic Myska and Peter’s affordable real estate is now a most retired land in Uruti. “Kitchen explosion” describes her gardening is always messy. While still in early stages, she has inspiring DIY eco-renovation, with a transformed hilltop enthusiastic 1/4 acre food forest that needs protection established a food forest, plastic house, shade house, pizza quarter-acre garden following permaculture principles. from the ducks in order to feed the family of six. They oven , worm farm, vegetable garden and chooks - all within Terracing, food forest, subtropical pocket, chickens, ducks. recently moved from a house bus into a shed-house, a tight budget and using scrapyard treasures. Lorraine also They are enthusiastic about growing their own food and made with self-milled local timber and recycled materials. lends a hand/green thumb at Upcycled Acres (8). aren’t afraid to experiment; they enjoy sharing produce and Independent power system, water harvesting and working on community projects. seedsaving.

2 Purposeful Paddocks 8 Upcycled Acres 14 The Art of Growing 525 Upper Kaipikari Road, 113 Warwick Road, RD21 Stratford 4332 55 Blagdon Raod, Blagdon L GB L S

Hazel and Derek bought 10 acres of bare paddock 3 years Phil and Catherine garden at 320m above sea level with Andrew balances his garden’s many uses with style and low ago. Aided by a GreenBridge, they sectioned off smaller high winds and rainfall and a shorter growing season - with cost: growing food for the family, outdoor entertainment, fields with shelter belts, with 2500+ new trees planted. views of 4 mountains. They are developing the garden with kid’s play, native habitat, sleep-out for rent, outlet for Horses, pigs, chooks and ducks for manure. Integrated aim to live off their 1.88ha block, while balancing life’s other creativity and aesthetic pleasure. Recycled materials for grey/blackwater systems. Early food forest. Glass house, demands. They recycle and reuse scrapyard finds - old both form and function. Chickens, composting, fruiting tunnel house. Grow and sell surplus at the farm gate. 1yo bed frames protect trees from sheep, recycled timber avocados, macadamias, glasshouse, sculptures. Andrew likes solar passive house. Lake with riparian planting. Bena from for raised beds, a demolished barn refashioned into a to shuffle things, let it grow and evolve, saying “I don’t see it GreenBridge talks about ‘Backyard Design for Diversity’. greenhouse, and hens lay in lawn mower catchers. as work, more a growing art work that I nurture”.

3 Sufficiently Solar 9 Toko School 15 Instant Bounty 776 Otaraoa Road, 1057 East Road, Toko 17 Regent Place, Blagdon

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Margaret and whanau live on a challenging 5 acre SW Toko students will enthusiastically show you around and Two years ago Miranda and Lance downsized to a standard facing hillside property. Its permaculture design includes explain the myriad of sustainability initiatives. Proudly 550m2 suburban section, bringing with them fruit trees and windbreaks, terraced gardens, swales to retain water, food ’s first Green-Gold Enviroschool, each class takes berry bushes from their previous site. Within a year, grass forests, trees for firewood, timber and fodder, composting responsibility for: heritage orchard, chickens, worm farm, gave way to raised beds overflowing with food, soil built systems, and animals for a range of uses. Newly developed vege patch, recycled bottle-house, enviro-bank and more. using compost, wood chips, seaweed and manure, food wetland. Solar to grid connected house and house bus. Eggs, worm juice, preserves, lavender and more for sale. forest packed with a variety of fruit trees (pip, stone, and Self-sufficient with home grown produce: bottled fruit, subtropicals), berries, greenhouse, and bees. Miranda will cider, save seed, soap making and curing hides. talk about eating seasonally from your garden. 4 Kahu Glen 10 Newstart Gardens 16 Biotensively Blooming 175 Road, Brixton 41 Saxton Road, Upper Vogeltown 344 Hurford Road, L GB M M

Matt and Melissa are farmers markets regulars, selling Newstart Gardens harnesses local enthusiasm for growing Laine Phillips and family live on 1.3 acres in a recycled feijoas, juice etc from their 10 acres, undergoing organic and giving back, fosters learning and volunteer initiatives, (relocated) house, now with a composting toilet, mulch basin certification. In 4 years they have adapted to parenthood, and includes extensive mulch beds, berry house, fruit greywater system, solar hot water and wetback fireplace. country life, implemented a permaculture design incl. grey/ trees, mushrooms, worm bath, and a subtropicals/tropicals Aiming to be self-reliant in terms of food and medicinal black water systems, bees, stock, native planting and a collection thriving in the hot house. Sun 6th, 4-6pm, herb production. Native forest, 3yo food forest (home to home orchard ensuring fruit all year (thanks to GreenBridge Newstart hosts the Sustainable Backyards closing event, honey and bumblebees). Biointensive vegetable garden bed advice). They are also famous for their hempcrete house. connecting you with local community and sustainability system, with areas dedicated to growing carbon crops for Kama (GB) talks about designing for year-round fruit. initiatives and educational opportunities. composting, including perennials such as alfalfa and comfrey.

5 Enthaven Garden 11 Hidden Valley 17 Hangatahua River Orchard 1255 Richmond Road, Inglewood 118 Carrington Street, Lower Vogeltown 62 Kaihihi Road Upper, Okato

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Anne and Mick bring together the best of traditional-style Raimond’s is a grand, ornamental garden in transition Catherine and Lyndon moved on to the riverside 5 acres gardening and permaculture ideas. Their garden has been to productive garden. Shelter of original trees help that already had 30 years of food-growing history - fruit developed from bare paddock over 15 years, including to establish others, including subtropicals, in a staged trees, timber trees, native bush and food crops. As lawns, exotic shelterbelts, orchard, fruit cage, veg gardens, take-over approach. Contrary to the current trend for ecologists, they believe in diversity for resilience (and fun). an ‘experimental’ patch, composting, worm farm, chickens, subdivision, Raimond has negotiated with neighbours to move Chooks, ducks, guinea pigs and sheep control pests and sheep. Solar-passive house with solar hot water and PV boundaries and expand his property to encompass the weeds. Surplus produce is sold to OOOBY (Out of our panels. They try to utilise all of the garden produce, whole hidden valley. Unusual varieties of fruit, nut trees, own backyards) Taranaki. Ursula of OOOBY Taranaki talks processing, preserving and fermenting the overabundance. bees, bamboo grove. Take care on the steep paths. about how to become a provider for OOOBY.

6 Comfortably Numb 12 Budding on Budleigh Key to property details 1315 Richmond Road, Inglewood 15b Budleigh Street, Messiness of backyard M M

Jayne and Steve have been transforming an established Christophe Egli and his mum Rebecca are the green- Size of backyard S M L sloping ornamental garden to a terraced productive garden thumbs of the family, blending organic gardening know-how and orchard. Free ranging chooks, a chook house made and eye for style. Their generous section blends with Purchases available Gumboots required from pallets, bee fodder, native and ornamental trees, a fire Brois St Reserve. Big trees, bush, bananas, building soil, bath and beautiful views of Mt Taranaki. Jayne is Taranaki’s glasshouse and plenty of 25yo enthusiasm. Ask Christophe Toilet available Advised or designed seedsaving champion and she’ll give a demo at 2pm Sun 30 about all the organic gardening-related courses available in GB by GreenBridge.co.nz Oct and Sat 5 Nov. Taranaki. Organics tutor Dee Turner and Christophe will Set time tour or talk demonstrate lasagna gardening to create a new bed.