Welcome
Hello. We live in a small rural Canterbury town in New Zealand. In 2015, we moved from an old subdivided city property to a new section with less than 470 square meters of land to transform. We feel blessed to have it and are excited about the opportunities growing.
Plants & Produce
Springston regenerative conversion
The opportunity we have is that there is an unused patch of land that we have requested access to...
Regenerative farm approaches – great to see change
On our home plot and on other plots we have been investigating what little we can do to stimulate...
Spreading the love – comfrey tea
We chopped and stewed comfrey leaves about three months ago, and the resulting rotted down slime...
Finding & Foraging
Mini road trip, Leeston – Tai Tapu
The landscape in our area is quite flat with mountains on one side and hills on the other....
Autumn Fruit Tree Pruning Workshop
We attended our first 'Springston Secret Garden' workshop on Sunday morning, it was a very cold...
April rains
Hundreds of worms trying to escape the water logged lawns and gardens risk it on the road.
December time at home
This year we built a driftwood Christmas tree – it was delightful. Cherries are improving. Check...
Preparing & Preserving
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Our edible garden
We’ve been here for a few years now, and the yard is really taking a shape – the fruit trees are filling out, roses and other trees and thriving.
View our edible garden overview here
Our mission is to work out how we can turn good intentions into great productivity!
Our garden design
We are using permaculture principles to make garden spaces where we can enjoy flowers, safely invite native birds to feed and to attract pollinators into our garden to help build a positive ecosystem.
- Care of the Earth
- Care of people
- Return of surplus
