COMING UP: KAITIAKI FARM WEEKEND

October 15-16

Contact: theecoschool@gmail.com www.theecoschool.net/upcomingevents.html

Saturday afternoon

• tour of gardens, intensive orchards, farm buildings (permaculture zones 1-2);

• integrating farm fowl into fruit and vegetable production;

• the best tools to use for low-input/ high performance systems.

Sunday morning

• tour of paddocks and hillsides, nonintensive orchards, stream restoration, bush restoration, and browse block (permaculture zones 3-5);

• includes water management, preventing slips, managing gorse, integrating poplar and willow, managing goats and kunekune pigs.

Sunday afternoon

• eco design/build for sleep-outs, tiny homes, minor dwellings;

• passive solar design, ‘super walls,’ retrofit double-glazing, building code changes, wastewater compliance, compost toilets.