The Webb’s edible garden in Kerikeri, is one of around 50 that feature in the Northland Edible Garden Trail.
The Webb’s edible garden in Kerikeri, is one of around 50 that feature in the Northland Edible Garden Trail.
Northlanders wanting to get more out of their gardens - particularly something to eat - can see just how to do so at the Northland Edible Garden Trail.
Edible gardens are growing in popularity across the world as people look to better use their space andprovide food to help reduce costs.
An edible garden means people can grow their own herbs, vegetables and fruits.
Edible gardening really is the best of both worlds, giving the same pleasures of gardening with the added bonus of being able to eat the produce.
The Northland Edible Garden Trail runs until March 1 and features 50 properties from the Far North to Whangārei.
The trail includes small urban gardens, food forests, rural lifestyle blocks, community gardens, marae, commercial growers and regenerative agriculture.
The public can meet the people involved - have a chat, look, learn, and be inspired to live and grow in a sustainable way.
Edible gardens are growing in popularity across the world and Northlanders can find out more at the month-long Northland Edible Garden Trail.
The trail includes a number of events from Saturday, with “Grow Local” with Levi Brinsdon-Hall, at 19 Oromāhoe School Rd in the Bay of Islands.
It ends with a garden open weekend in Whangārei on February 28 and March 1.
Brinsdon-Hall feeds 30 families from OMG (Organic Market Garden), a 500sq m garden in downtown Auckland that has been operating since 2018 and also runs an epic community garden at Manurewa to provide food for school lunches at New Zealand’s largest low decile high school.
A new garden on the trail this year is the property of Barb and Mike Webb in Kerikeri.
The couple have an off grid, self-sufficient home and garden on around 2ha.
It is an impressive property, with a 22m x 10m glasshouse; a small glasshouse for drying produce such as figs, tomatoes and tobacco, and sheep and chooks. They bottle the produce, including making sauerkraut and pickles. They also make their own liquid fertiliser. There is an impressive man cave and an equally impressive she shed with its own indoor pickleball court. The Webbs also run the monthly Kerikeri Repair Café.
There are no pre-purchased tickets, with full details of all the edible gardens, including opening times and directions, available at the Northland Edible Garden Trail website and social media pages.
Entry is normally $3 per person per garden, and children are free.
The Northland Edible Garden Trail is a not-for-profit event, supported by the Kaikohe-Hokianga Community Board.
