Please bring any spare seeds, seedlings, plants, tubers etc and a plate for afternoon tea (tea and coffee provided).
Contact: Shannon McGhee
Email: boi@seedsavers.org.nz
We look forward to welcoming everyone to the Autumn Seed Swap. As usual it will be held in the Auckland Botanical Gardens but this year it will be held in the Friends building instead of in the classroom. Look for the building that stands by itself on your left between the Auckland garden which borders Hill Road, and the road that runs through the car park. Bring plants and cuttings to share, seed for the Seed Bank and a plate of food for a shared lunch at midday.
Contact: Kathrina Muller
Email: saimuller@paradise.net.nz
Phone: 0-9-267 1260
Post: 12 Lemonwood Place, Manurewa, Auckland
This meeting will be an exchange of seeds, tubers, cuttings that people bring in and an informal discussion of how the seed saving group/exchange/bank should or could be run. Please bring a plate of food for a shared lunch.
Contact: Shannon McGhee
Email: boi@seedsavers.org.nz
Bring seeds to clean, swap and buy. Bring a plate of finger food to share (maybe made from something you have grown). Other things to bring include the rest of the packet of seed you have spare, edible plants, plants attracting beneficial insects or which have other uses. Please do not bring any prohibited plants or plants on the ARC weed list. Also it would be great if you have produce from the seed you are sharing for members to try. Other useful items are old envelopes, bags, pens, pencils and paper for notes. Hope to see you all there!
Contact: Kathrina Muller
Email: saimuller@paradise.net.nz
Phone: 0-9-267 1260
Post: 12 Lemonwood Place, Manurewa, Auckland
Please bring any seeds, useful plant material and a small plate of food for a shared lunch. Please bring some small bags to put your seeds into and a pen to write down what they are.
Contact: Kathrina Muller
Email: saimuller@paradise.net.nz
Phone: 0-9-267 1260
Post: 12 Lemonwood Place, Manurewa, Auckland
We will be visiting four Seed Savers gardens and the weekly Ostend Market.
Fullers ferries depart from downtown Auckland on Pier 2 by the ferry building. Britomart Transport Centre is across the road for buses and trains. Cars can be left at the downtown carpark one block away. The 9:00am ferry and 6:00pm return ferry will travel via devonport.
Contact: Kathrina Muller
Email: saimuller@paradise.net.nz
Phone: 0-9-267 1260
Post: 12 Lemonwood Place, Manurewa, Auckland
The meeting will concentrate on seeds suitable for sowing in spring. Please bring any seeds you have available and a small plate of food for a shared lunch.
Colin Walker will have Koanga Gardens' seeds for sale. Stella Christoffersen from Running Brook Seeds will also have seeds available after mid-day. Stella was the speaker at our last meeting.
Contact: Kathrina Muller
Email: saimuller@paradise.net.nz
Phone: 0-9-267 1260
Post: 12 Lemonwood Place, Manurewa, Auckland
Please bring any seeds, useful plant material and a small plate of food for a shared lunch. Please bring some small bags to put your seeds into and a pen to write down what they are.
Contact: Kathrina Muller
Email: saimuller@paradise.net.nz
Phone: 0-9-267 1260
Post: 12 Lemonwood Place, Manurewa, Auckland
A working bee to bag seeds for the Autumn Seed Exchange. Please bring any spare seeds you have or drop off to Steve at the Gardens before hand. There will be seeds available for the workers.
Contact: Kathrina Muller
Email: saimuller@paradise.net.nz
Phone: 0-9-267 1260
Post: 12 Lemonwood Place, Manurewa, Auckland
Join the Auckland branch of the Soil & Health Association on their Permaculture Tour.
A 2 acre permaculture property featuring:
Please bring Koha and food for a shared lunch.
The organic farm is a model of permaculture and an education centre that demonstrates, teaches and promotes ecologically sustainable living.
A three hour tour ($12 per person) of the farm covering:
For more information visit:
www.rainbowvalleyfarm.co.nz
If you can give a ride or would like one please contact Kathrina.
Contact: Kathrina Muller
Email: saimuller@paradise.net.nz
Phone: 0-9-267 1260
Post: 12 Lemonwood Place, Manurewa, Auckland
Unitech has organic gardens, a vertical composting unit, a water treatment garden, as well as a large number of unusual and interesting trees. A large part of their grounds used to be part of the Carrington Hospital, which was planted up with a large number of trees. Many are now very impressive specimens and the grounds are often visited by various groups to see the trees.
If anyone still has energy afterwards, we may go for a walk along the Oakley Creek walkway.
Contact: Kathrina Muller
Email: saimuller@paradise.net.nz
Phone: 0-9-267 1260
Post: 12 Lemonwood Place, Manurewa, Auckland
The meeting will concentrate on seeds suitable for sowing in spring. Please bring any seeds you have available and a small plate of food for a shared lunch.
Contact: Kathrina Muller
Email: saimuller@paradise.net.nz
Phone: 0-9-267 1260
Post: 12 Lemonwood Place, Manurewa, Auckland
Please bring any seeds, useful plant material and a small plate of food for a shared lunch. We hope to have a good display of different potatoes and hopefully some will be available to members. There will also be seeds available. Please bring some small bags to put your seeds into and a pen to write down what they are.
Contact: Kathrina Muller
Email: saimuller@paradise.net.nz
Phone: 0-9-267 1260
Post: 12 Lemonwood Place, Manurewa, Auckland
A good opportunity to meet the other ASE members and talk seeds. Bring along all your excess seeds to swap. There will be a shared lunch so please bring a plate of food to share. Non-members are most welcome to attend.
Contact: Bryce Palmer
Email: ase@seedsavers.org.nz
Post: P.O. Box 69228, Glendene, Auckland
A good opportunity to meet the other ASE members and talk seeds. Bring along all your excess seeds to swap. There will be a shared lunch so please bring a plate of food to share. Non-members are most welcome to attend.
Contact: Bryce Palmer
Email: ase@seedsavers.org.nz
Post: P.O. Box 69228, Glendene, Auckland
A good opportunity to meet the other ASE members and talk seeds. Bring along all your excess seeds to swap. There will be a shared lunch so please bring a plate of food to share. Non-members are most welcome to attend.
Contact: Bryce Palmer
Email: ase@seedsavers.org.nz
Post: P.O. Box 69228, Glendene, Auckland
All welcome
Contact: Manager
Email: southernseed@paradise.net.nz
Phone: 0-3-325 1310
Fax: 0-3-325 1312
Post: C/- Christchurch Polytechnic, P.O. Box 540, Christchurch
The Autumn meeting (ASE's first ever) was a great success with seed savers from all backgrounds attending and large amounts of seeds and other produce swapped.
The spring meeting will be a great opportunity to obtain new varieties for the coming season. Bring along your excess seeds, tubers and plants for the seed swap table. A guest speaker (TBA) will talk on a topic related to seed saving. We hope to have staff from Koanga Gardens attending who will offer advice and sell books on seed saving. Please bring a plate of food for a shared lunch.
More details will be available closer to the event.
Contact: Bryce Palmer
Email: ase@seedsavers.org.nz
Post: P.O. Box 69228, Glendene, Auckland
Come and celebrate the winter solstice with us and see what we're up to. An opportunity to see what's happening in the gardens during winter.
Contact: Koanga Gardens
Web: www.koanga.org.nz
Phone: 0-9-431 2732
Fax: 0-9-431 2745
Post: RD 2, Maungaturoto, Northland
Come and celebrate the winter solstice with us and see what we're up to. An opportunity to see what's happening in the gardens during winter.
If weather conditions are extreme a cancellation message will be placed on our answerphone.
Contact: Koanga Gardens
Web: www.koanga.org.nz
Phone: 0-9-431 2732
Fax: 0-9-431 2745
Post: RD 2, Maungaturoto, Northland
There will be an opportunity for representatives of South Island seed savers to get together, but anyone with an interest in seed growing and seed saving is welcome. Discussions with seed savers is not an official part of the Conference but there will be an opportunity to get together.
Contact: Conference Co-ordinator, Organics Conference 2001
Post: P.O Box 323 Ashburton
This is a great opportunity for all of you interested in seed saving from all around New Zealand or those of you who are seed multipliers or growing open pollinated seeds on a commercial basis to support each other to do a better job of saving our seeds.
The Hui is being held in conjunction with the Koanga Gardens' Annual Harvest Festival. Full details of the harvest festival are available on the Koanga Gardens web site. After the Harvest Festival closes at 4:00pm on Saturday we offer an evening session of food, music, and discussion around aspects of gardening and seed saving. A forum for questions and answers. Everyone is welcome but numbers will be limited to 30 as that is all we can comfortably fit in the Whare for the evening session. We'll provide a beautiful organic evening meal and facilitate the evening.
Contact: Koanga Gardens
Web: www.koanga.org.nz
Phone: 0-9-431 2732
Fax: 0-9-431 2745
Post: RD 2, Maungaturoto, Northland
From discussions at the Soil & Health Conference in Auckland, the Seed Savers Forum in Golden Bay and including consultation with bio-regional seed saver groups, interested individuals, groups and seed companies who were unable to attend these two events, there is strong support for the strengthening of links between seed savers nationally and for the development of a national 'Seed Register'.
Discussions are now focused on how to achieve this and a proposed strategy has been developed, which we now offer for consideration and initial feedback to all those interested. This forum will develop this initiative further. Anyone is welcome to attend.
Contact: John Massey
Email: john@seedsavers.org.nz
Phone: 0-3-546 7098
Post: 45A Washington Rd, Nelson
The forum will create a national Seed Savers Network to connect home garden seed savers and small seed exchanges, so seeds can be distributed from resources big or small to where there is use or need.
We invite any seed savers or other interested people to help generate the structure of a National Seed Savers Network.
Contact: John Massey
Email: john@seedsavers.org.nz
Phone: 0-3-546 7098
Post: 45A Washington Rd, Nelson