ON SALE! Hire from $70 per vehicle per day inc lunch, garden entry
Get friends or family together and tour the region in style driving the latest electric vehicles. Recommended routes yet the freedom to choose. No fuel, just fun!
Free entry
Join the learners as they show you around the school orchard, vegetable gardens, herb gardens, chickens, bees, distilling, worm fertiliser factory, recycling centre and the recycled bottle house.
CANCELLED
Relax and enjoy an array of hand-picked properties directly with Taranaki’s finest growers and makers. Be inspired, gain tips and enjoy beautiful kai during this informative tour.
Garden Entry ($3) plus koha
Join Jayne from Clarty and learn how to grow organic avocados and produce fruit in just 2-5 years!
Garden Entry ($3) plus koha
Learn to make herbal tea from the garden, traditional uses of common herbs and how you can benefit from them.
Garden Entry ($3) plus koha
Join Caroline from Eudaimonia to learn about the fundamentals of growing a food forest.
Garden Entry ($3) plus koha
Join Nell from Naturally Nell’s as she demonstrates what to forage growing wild in your backyard and how to use it medicinally.
Garden Entry ($3) plus koha
Join Caroline from Eudaimonia to hear about soil science secrets
Free entry
Visit the inspiring campus where learners will take you on a tour of the propagation and tropical greenhouse, the māra, and Compass Hill native plantings.
SOLD OUT
Saturday morning! Pedal through a mix of walkways, streets, shortcuts and native bush to arrive at three urban Backyards. Pick up growing tips, a little local history, a few bike skills, and delicious kai and coffee.
Koha (donation)
Join learners from Ōmata School as they tour you around their edible classroom and give regular demonstrations on how to make a bumblebee home as well as pesto from whatever is available in the garden!
Garden Entry ($3) plus koha
Join Melissa and Aaron from Little Insect Farm and explore a bountiful hillside food forest.
Garden Entry ($3) plus koha
Join Cat from The Medicine Place to learn which medicinal plant species are best suited to you.
$25 ($10 under 12s) includes coach, entry, workshops
Ride and relax as you’re driven around the South Taranaki backyards to enjoy private workshops at an affordable price!
Garden Entry ($3) plus koha
Join Martina from Blue Petal Botanicals and pick up tips and tricks for planting, growing, culinary and medicinal uses.
Garden Entry ($3) plus koha
Join Stu from Lil Slice as he takes you on a tour of his garden and talks about all the different ways he creates healthy soil.
Garden Entry ($3) plus koha
Learn to make herbal tea from the garden, traditional uses of common herbs and how you can benefit from them.
Garden Entry ($3) plus koha
Join Krystel from Watts Good to learn how to make the most out of a small urban backyard to still supply you with fresh vege year round.
Free (please register)
Sustainable Backyards Trail and Crop Swap Aotearoa are both turning 10 years old and you're invited to celebrate with us at our GIANT Crop Swap.
Garden Entry ($3) plus koha
Join Krystel from Watts Good to learn how to make the most out of a small urban backyard to still supply you with fresh vege year round.
Garden Entry ($3) plus koha
Watch as Dan distills a herb grown from our garden, learn about the process and healing properties of oils and hydrosol.
SOLD OUT (Spaces available on Sat 2 Nov 9am-1pm)
Sunday afternoon! Pedal through a mix of walkways, streets, shortcuts and native bush to arrive at three urban Backyards. Pick up growing tips, a little local history, a few bike skills, and delicious kai and coffee.
Garden Entry ($3) plus koha
Join Chanelle from Bayly Terraces to learn tips and tricks for keeping chickens in an urban backyard.
Garden Entry ($3) plus koha
Join Stu from Lil Slice as he takes through the basics of creating and maintaining a ‘no-dig’ garden bed.
Garden Entry ($3) plus koha
Join Melissa and Aaron from Little Insect Farm to learn how to encourage the good, control the bad, and taste the edible!
Free entry.
Join the learners as they show you around the school orchard, vegetable gardens, herb gardens, chickens, bees, distilling, worm fertiliser factory, recycling centre and the recycled bottle house.
Garden Entry ($3) plus koha
Join Stu from Lil Slice as he takes you on a tour of his garden and talks about all the different ways he creates healthy soil.
Free
This Hub Show Garden Tour showcases sustainable elements in a standard-sized Taranaki suburban home/garden, implemented with the use of 100% repurposed materials.
Garden Entry ($3) plus koha
Join Stu from Lil Slice as he takes you on a tour of his garden and talks about all the different ways he creates healthy soil.
$30 inc entry, bus
People with low vision are invited to tour three festival gardens and the full sensory experience of The Medicine Place from the Sustainable Backyards Trail with professional audio describers.
Free entry.
Join the learners as they show you around the school orchard, vegetable gardens, herb gardens, chickens, bees, distilling, worm fertiliser factory, recycling centre and the recycled bottle house.
Garden Entry ($3) plus koha
Join Viv from Viv’s Garden to learn how to create cordage from natural fibres for use in the garden.
$45 inc refreshments, seeds, moon calendar, coffee
Join Jayne Bright from Seedsavers for a practical and hands-on workshop to understand the basics of saving seed and goodies to take home to start your journey!
$60 inc. entry, coach
Explore five Festival gardens and The Commune (Sustainable Backyard) as you bus from north to south with other garden enthusiasts.
Free entry
Join the learners as they show you around the school orchard, vegetable gardens, herb gardens, chickens, bees, distilling, worm fertiliser factory, recycling centre and the recycled bottle house.
Free
Learn how and what to compost and how easy it is to start turning organic waste into healthy nutrients for your garden.
Garden Entry ($3) plus koha
Join Cat from The Medicine Place to learn which medicinal plant species are best suited to you.
$45 inc tasting platters, refreshments
Taste the difference that fresh vegetables make in the kitchen and learn about working with plant-based products.
Free entry
Join the learners as they show you around the school orchard, vegetable gardens, herb gardens, chickens, bees, distilling, worm fertiliser factory, recycling centre and the recycled bottle house.
Free
Learn how and what to compost and how easy it is to start turning organic waste into healthy nutrients for your garden.
$15pp inc. refreshments & canapés
Allow Jo’s down-to-earth approach spark your enthusiasm and equip you with practical tips to cultivate your own edible garden oasis.
Free entry
Join the learners as they show you around the school orchard, vegetable gardens, herb gardens, chickens, bees, distilling, worm fertiliser factory, recycling centre and the recycled bottle house.
Koha entry (donation)
Join learners as they show you around the school's living learning areas, and be educated on how to gather local native seed and collect local seedlings for growing riparian plants.
Garden Entry ($3) plus koha
Join Jayne from Clarty and learn how to grow organic avocados and produce fruit in just 2-5 years!
Koha entry (donation)
Join learners from Ōmata School as they tour you around their edible classroom and give regular demonstrations on how to make a bumblebee home as well as pesto from whatever is available in the garden!
Garden Entry ($3) plus koha
Join Stu from Lil Slice as he takes you on a tour of his garden and talks about all the different ways he creates healthy soil.
Garden Entry ($3) plus koha
Join Nell from Naturally Nell’s as she demonstrates what to forage growing wild in your backyard and how to use it medicinally.
Garden Entry ($3) plus koha
Join Caroline from Eudaimonia to hear about soil science secrets.
Koha (bring any pallets you have)
Join Briar from Taranaki Realty to learn how to build with pallets: which to use, how to break them up, and how to build with the wood.
Koha entry (donation)
Join learners as you tour the school garden and learn how to make a bumblebee home as well as pesto from whatever is available in the garden!
Garden Entry ($3) plus koha
Join Melissa and Aaron from Little Insect Farm to explore a bountiful hillside food forest.
Garden Entry ($3) plus koha
Join Viv from Viv’s Garden to learn how to create cordage from natural fibres for use in the garden.
Koha
Bring the family along for a hands-on kid-friendly workshop about the life of a seed!
Garden Entry ($3) plus koha
Join Stu from Lil Slice as he takes you on a tour of his garden and talks about all the different ways he creates healthy soil.
Garden Entry ($3) plus koha
Join Dan from Mountain Road Estate to learn how mycorrhizal fungi produce truffles.
$120 (3hr workshop)
Join Bena Denton from Greenbridge for this interactive workshop and come away with an understanding of how to design and layout your own edible garden and food forest for beauty, health and abundance.
Garden Entry ($3) plus koha
Join Krystel from Watts Good to learn how to make the most out of a small urban backyard to still supply you with fresh vege year round.
Garden Entry ($3) plus koha
Join Cat from The Medicine Place to learn which medicinal plant species are best suited to you.
Garden Entry ($3) plus koha
Join Krystel from Watts Good to learn how to make the most out of a small urban backyard to still supply you with fresh vege year round.
x1 adult $95 or x2 adults for $120, $65 (12-18 yrs), $45 (under 12yrs)
An amazing opportunity to select your favourite topics and attend four permaculture workshops or talks at the national annual PiNZ hui.
Koha
Join Jayne from Seedsavers to understand the basics of saving seeds from your garden.
Garden Entry ($3) plus koha
Watch as Dan distills a herb grown from our garden, learn about the process and healing properties of oils and hydrosol.
$10 ($5 under 12s)
Keen to travel to and from Hāwera as a small group to listen and learn at the Parihaka Māra kōrero? If we have enough interest we’ll arrange a low-cost van.
Free
Come along for a guided garden tour with insights on growing practices and the tikanga that underpins Te Māra Hapori ki Parihaka.
Garden Entry ($3) plus koha
Join Melissa and Aaron from Little Insect Farm to learn how to encourage the good, control the bad, and taste the edible!
Garden Entry ($3) plus koha
Join Stu from Lil Slice as he takes through the basics of creating and maintaining a ‘no-dig’ garden bed.
Garden Entry ($3) plus koha
Join Caroline from Eudaimonia to learn about closed-loop permaculture
Keen to travel to and from New Plymouth as a small group to visit Blue Petal Botanicals, Mangawara and The Green School New Zealand? If we have enough interest we’ll arrange a low-cost van tour.
Culinary & medicinal herbs - Tour, Talk & Tasting
Admission: $5 cash including tasting Limited spaces available - please register here.
Guided tour of the Blue Petal culinary and medicinal herb fields and drying facilities, followed by tasting of herbal and medicinal products.
Free admission, spaces limited, please register here.
Hear about what is involved in the construction of a certified passive home including ventilation and insulation. Take a tour you through this unique, internationally-recognised home.
Admission $15 cash, including organic juice tasting, light snacks. Spaces limited, please register here.
Walk through the orchard while learning about organic certification, the orchard processes and integrating livestock. Move indoors to hear about building with hemp and living in a hemp home.
Free admission, spaces limited, please register here.
Witness the visionary architecture of Green School NZ and hear the story behind the design, build and land use of a school without walls.
$5 cash inc tasting
Guided tour of the Blue Petal culinary and medicinal herb fields and drying facilities, followed by tasting of herbal and medicinal products.
Admission $15 cash, including organic juice tasting, light snacks. Spaces limited, please register here.
Walk through the orchard to learn about organic certification, the orchard processes and integrating livestock. Move indoors to hear about building with hemp and living in a hemp home.
$10 ($5 under 12s)
Keen to travel to and from Hāwera as a small group to visit Ballymullin Farm and Ōpunake Tiny Homes? If we have enough interest we’ll arrange a low-cost van.
Free admission, spaces limited, please register here.
A guided walk through the farm taking in aspects of regenerative farming including soil health, water quality, biodiversity and pasture management.
Learn about starting out with regenerative dairy through organic fertilisers and diverse crops. How living a slow, self-sufficient lifestyle and growing our own food has impacted the farm.
Culinary & medicinal herbs - Tour, Talk & Tasting
Admission: $5 cash including tasting Limited spaces available - please register here.
Guided tour of the Blue Petal culinary and medicinal herb fields and drying facilities, followed by tasting of herbal and medicinal products.
Free admission, spaces limited, please register here.
Hear about what is involved in the construction of a certified passive home including ventilation and insulation. Take a tour you through this unique, internationally-recognised home.
Free admission, spaces limited, please register here.
Hear about the school’s initiative building tiny homes and the skills of local youth. Get ideas for tiny builds, considerations for consents, and tour several completed builds.
Free admission, spaces limited, please register here.
A guided walk through the farm taking in aspects of regenerative farming including soil health, water quality, biodiversity and pasture management.
$45 or $60 couple, inc refreshments, juice.
This facilitated discussion is for people considering, are part way through, or who have completed a sustainable build.
Free admission, spaces limited, please register here.
Learn from the students how to use common power tools and try your hand as several of the skills needed to build tiny homes.
Free admission, spaces limited, please register here.
Witness the visionary architecture of Green School NZ and hear the story behind the design, build and land use of a school without walls.
Free admission, limited numbers - please register here.
Guided tour of parts of the farm, highlights include seeing retired gullies reverting back to native bush and pine, established fenced waterways with riparian planting and regenerated wetlands.
Culinary & medicinal herbs - Tour, Talk & Tasting
Admission: $5 cash including tasting Limited spaces available - please register here.
Guided tour of the Blue Petal culinary and medicinal herb fields and drying facilities, followed by tasting of herbal and medicinal products.
Free admission, spaces limited, please register here.
Hear from owner Jane Bowden-Dobson and builder Jeff Fairweather as they share the pros and cons of building with rammed earth, the build process and what it’s like living in a passive design home made from natural materials.
Free admission, spaces limited, please register here.
Hear about the benefits, challenges, what’s involved when buying land as a group and how the arrangement works for the three families who purchased the Ahu Ahu seafront section.
Piloting net-zero dairy - Tour & Talk
Free admission, spaces limited, please register here.
Check out Dairy Trust Taranaki’s net-zero pilot farm aiming to optimise the farm system using methods such as insetting for carbon sequestration and exploring new technologies.
Learn how to make your renovation project energy efficient and affordable to run into the future.
Culinary & medicinal herbs - Tour, Talk & Tasting
Admission: $5 cash including tasting Limited spaces available - please register here.
Guided tour of the Blue Petal culinary and medicinal herb fields and drying facilities, followed by tasting of herbal and medicinal products.
Free - limited numbers, register here.
Learn about starting out with regenerative dairy through organic fertilisers and diverse crops. How living a slow, self-sufficient lifestyle and growing our own food has impacted the farm.
Admission: $5 cash including juice tasting
Guided tour of the feijoa orchard while you hear about gaining organic certification, the orchard processes, full-circle agriculture, and integrating sheep and chickens.
Admission $5, including organic juice tasting. Spaces limited, please register here.
Hear about building with hemp and what it’s like living in a hemp home. Matt will also talk about other sustainable features of their home and lead a tour of the garden and orchard.
Admission $5, including organic juice tasting. Spaces limited, please register here.
Hear about building with hemp and what it’s like living in a hemp home. Matt will also talk about other sustainable features of their home and lead a tour of the garden and orchard.
Free admission, limited numbers - please register here.
Guided tour of parts of the farm, highlights include seeing retired gullies reverting back to native bush and pine, established fenced waterways with riparian planting and regenerated wetlands.
Free admission, spaces limited, please register here.
Hear about house design for sustainable heating, cooling and energy usage. Geoff will speak about rain water recovery, solar generation and storage, as well as passive heating and cooling elements.
Free admission, spaces limited, please register here.
A guided walk through the farm taking in aspects of regenerative farming including soil health, water quality, biodiversity and pasture management.
Admission: $5 cash including juice tasting
Guided tour of the feijoa orchard while you hear about gaining organic certification, the orchard processes, full-circle agriculture, and integrating sheep and chickens.
Culinary & medicinal herbs - Tour, Talk & Tasting
Admission: $5 cash including tasting Limited spaces available - please register here.
Guided tour of the Blue Petal culinary and medicinal herb fields and drying facilities, followed by tasting of herbal and medicinal products.
Free admission, spaces limited, please register here.
Hear about house design for sustainable heating, cooling and energy usage. Geoff will speak about rain water recovery, solar generation and storage, as well as passive heating and cooling elements.
Admission: $5 including tasting, take home herbal teas. Spaces limited, please register here.
Learn to make herbal tea from the garden, traditional uses of common herbs and how you can benefit from them.
Free admission, spaces limited, please register here.
A guided walk through the farm taking in aspects of regenerative farming including soil health, water quality, biodiversity and pasture management.
Admission $5, including organic juice tasting. Spaces limited, please register here.
Hear about building with hemp and what it’s like living in a hemp home. Matt will also talk about other sustainable features of their home and lead a tour of the garden and orchard.
Admission: $5 cash including sampling. Spaces limited, please register here.
Guided tour of the lavender and white sage fields then watch Dan distilling and learn about the process and healing properties of oils and hydrosols.
$50 inc take home infusions, tastings and snacks.
Learn how to infuse oil, vinegar, wine and honey with herbs from one of Taranaki’s top local medicinal and culinary herb specialists.
Free admission, spaces limited, please register here.
Hear about house design for sustainable heating, cooling and energy usage. Geoff will speak about rain water recovery, solar generation and storage, as well as passive heating and cooling elements.
Free admission, spaces limited, please register here.
Hear about house design in terms of sustainable heating, cooling and energy usage. Geoff will speak about rain water recovery, solar generation and storage, as well as passive heating and cooling elements.
Admission: $5 cash including juice tasting
Guided tour of the feijoa orchard while you hear about gaining organic certification, the orchard processes, full-circle agriculture, and integrating sheep and chickens.
Free admission, spaces limited, please register here.
A guided walk through the farm taking in aspects of regenerative farming including soil health, water quality, biodiversity and pasture management.
Admission $5, including organic juice tasting. Spaces limited, please register here.
Hear about building with hemp and what it’s like living in a hemp home. Matt will also talk about other sustainable features of their home and lead a tour of the garden and orchard.
Culinary & medicinal herbs - Tour, Talk & Tasting
Admission: $5 cash including tasting Limited spaces available - please register here.
Guided tour of the Blue Petal culinary and medicinal herb fields and drying facilities, followed by tasting of herbal and medicinal products.
Free admission, spaces limited, please register here.
Hear about house design in terms of sustainable heating, cooling and energy usage. Geoff will speak about rain water recovery, solar generation and storage, as well as passive heating and cooling elements.
Admission: $5 including tasting, take home herbal teas. Spaces limited, please register here.
Learn to make herbal tea from the garden, traditional uses of common herbs and how you can benefit from them.
Free admission, spaces limited, please register here.
A guided walk through the farm taking in aspects of regenerative farming including soil health, water quality, biodiversity and pasture management.
Admission: $5 cash including juice tasting
Guided tour of the feijoa orchard while you hear about gaining organic certification, the orchard processes, full-circle agriculture, and integrating sheep and chickens.
Admission: $10 cash. Spaces limited, please register here.
Guided tour of the inoculated trees then learn how mycorrhizal fungi creates a symbiotic relationships with its host tree and forms a network under the ground, eventually producing truffles in winter.
Free admission, spaces limited, please register here.
Hear about house design for sustainable heating, cooling and energy usage. Geoff will speak about rain water recovery, solar generation and storage, as well as passive heating and cooling elements.
Koha (donation)
Join learners as they show you around the school's living learning areas, and be educated on how to gather local native seed and collect local seedlings for growing riparian plants.
Ticketed event ($20): Identify common weeds and explore ways to use both medicinally and nutritionally.
Ticketed event ($15): Gain the required knowledge to farm mealworms which are a great source of protein for yourself or your pets.
Free display: The Junction will be on site with examples of and ideas for upcycled creations.
Free: Visit the Taranaki Farmers Market and stock up on spray free produce and artisan products.
Ticketed event ($45): A morning for women to come together in ritual (reiki, meditation, sage), relax and prepare for the new month.
Ticketed event ($130): An introduction to regenerative principals and how you can apply them to your block or farm.
Koha/donation workshop: Learn about traditional practices, tips, and challenges of growing kūmara.
Koha/donation demonstration: Experience the joy and ancient process of distilling organic herbs in a copper alembic still.
Ticketed event ($20): Learn about the amazing benefits of this microorganism and how it can take your DIY plant food to the next level.
Ticketed event ($75): Pedal via walkways and hidden routes to three urban Backyards. Enjoy garden tours, delicious kai, coffee, and kaupapa.
Free display: The Junction will be on site with examples of and ideas for upcycled creations.
Ticketed event ($85): A one of a kind baking experience - envision your garden in flour, bake, and make new connections.
Ticketed event ($45): Create an acrylic painting inspired by spring flowers.
Ticketed event ($45): Paint a set of cards inspired by garden flowers using water colours.
Ticketed event ($85): A hands-on workshop making focaccia dough and decorating with fresh garden produce.
Koha workshop: How to source, process, and store native seeds for successful germination.
Ticketed event ($85): Learn about the revival and benefits of sourdough, demonstration of the making and baking process.
Ticketed event ($45): Create an acrylic painting inspired by spring flowers.
The fascinating process of growing truffles - the fruit of a fungi that grows symbiotically with a host tree!
Paint a set of cards inspired by garden flowers using water colours.
Seedsavers Taranaki is a group of people who share, swap and have fun saving and growing NZ open-pollinated seed local to Taranaki and beyond.
Identify common weeds and explore ways to use both medicinally and nutritionally.
Gain the required knowledge to farm mealworms which are a great source of protein for yourself or your pets.
Pedal via walkways and hidden routes to three urban Backyards. Enjoy garden tours, delicious kai, coffee, and kaupapa.
Purchase your $3 seeds to support the Backyards Trail at the Farmers Market Taranaki and stock up on beautiful local spray-free produce and artisan products.
The Junction will be on site with examples of and ideas for upcycled creations.
Hear all about the Crop Swap Aotearoa movement experience the magic of sharing food.
Community-sufficiency, te reo revitalisation and regenerative agriculture - a tour of the Parihaka community māra.
Learn about traditional practices, tips, and challenges of growing kūmara.
