New community education programme at Riverside Community

September 9th, 2010

Tending Our Living Earth (Tiakina te Taiao) is the title of a programme developed by the Riverside Community members and residents over this past winter aimed at anyone interested in gardening. Organisers say it will show practical, land-based skills for a healthy and self-supporting way of life.

The programme kicked off last Saturday with a celebration, lunch and a grafting workshop in the afternoon. This will be followed by a series workshops running most Sundays from September 12th through to next winter.

Topics range from composting to healing, cheese, wine, solar cooking, earth building to spinning wool. Workshops include From Waste to Nutrition (composting, worm farming and bokashi), Lawn Liberation (different ways of creating garden beds from scratch), Small Beginnings (propagation), Friendly Neighbours (planting out, companion planting and pest control), Wild Weeds, Composting Toilets, Solar Hot Water, Earth Oven, Cheese Making, Solar Ovens and Dehydrators, Nature Farming (EM), Reedbeds, Earthbuilding, Fruit Wines & Vinegar, and Seed Saving.

A workshop called Medicine for Free teaches the identification and use of wild plants. One on solar hot water systems teaches, theory and practice construction, installation, and management. Grow your Own Remedy teaches how to grow and process medicinal herbs. There is also a marvellous series for children.

For the full details and calendar of workshops, see the brochure here.

For further information and registration, contact Verena on ext 19, or e-mail

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