1. Participants
30 October—8 November 2015
1. 78 Uriti Rd, Uriti Host: Maxine Beales Open: Weekends 10am-4pm
Admission: koha
Attraction: A rural property with independent power system, vegetable garden, food forests, seed saving, chook tractor, water
harvesting, composting, Muscovy ducks, work with recycled materials. A tidy work in progress garden.
2. 95a Wharekauri Road,
Urenui
Hosts: Brian & Helen O’Neill Open: 30 October – 8 November 10am-2.30pm
Admission: $ 2 pp
Attraction: New build, solar hot water with wetback set up. Animals, composting, water catchment for irrigating orchard,
native bush area, shelter & firewood planting, vegetable and herb garden, companion planting and native bird life.
3. 776 Otaraoa Road, RD43
Waitara
Host: Margaret Smith Open: Weekends 10am-4pm
Admission: koha
Attraction: Solar to grid connected permaculture unit complete with terraced gardens, food forests, trees for firewood, tim-
ber and fodder, composting systems, swales to retain water in the landscape and animals for a range of uses. Self-sufficient
with home grown produce: bottled fruit, cider, save seed, soap making and curing hides.
4. 591 Otaraoa Road, RD43
Waitara
Macadamia Park View
Host: Daniela Krumm
Open: 30 October – 8 November 10am-4pm
Garden not open on Sunday mornings
Admission: $ 2 pp
Attraction: medium size country family garden, enclosed by dry stone wall, including 2 vegetable gardens, good low mainte-
nance design, organic for 30 years, emphasis on mulching, surrounded by extensive fruit orchard, on a sheep and Macadamia
nut farm. Love to share our knowledge and inspire!
5. 143 Ackworth Road, RD3,
New Plymouth 4373
Host - Shonagh Hopkirk Open: Friday 6 – Sunday 8 Nov 10am-4pm
Admission: kohaPartly
Attraction: variety of poultry, small orchard is in the beginning stages of conversion to food forest, natural, soil, pasture and
stock management methods, spiral garden and raised beds, wide assortments of herbs, self-seeding, solar panels feeding the
grid and heating water, water catchment, greenhouse, an open-ended "tomato tower", berry tunnel & the beginnings of a new
"berry shed”.
6. 1315 Richmond Road, RD9,
Inglewood
Jayne & Steve’s Slice of Paradise
Host: Jayne Bright
Open: Weekends 10am-4pm +
2-3pm Seedsavers demo
Admission: gold coin donationlemon cordial & water
Attraction: changing ornamental garden to an edible garden, a productive orchard, and a hillside that has been converted
from a planted shrub slope to a terraced organic edible garden, seed saving, free ranging chooks, a chook house made from
pallets, lots of bee fodder, native and ornamental trees, a fire bath and beautiful views of Mt Taranaki.
7. 1878 Mangorei Road,
Mangorei
(Park at the end of Mangorei Rd and
walk up – see map at the gate)
Private Bush Retreat
Host: Desire Avey
Open: Weekdays Mon 2 Nov - Friday 6 Nov
10am-4pm
Admission: koha
Attraction: A property which has been developed with eco-tourism in mind, 2 cabins which are powered via solar, wetbacks.
Main house grid-tied, solar, beef & chickens, food forest, outdoor garden beds, greenhouse & berry tunnels, composting,
worm farming, organic fertiliser, water catchment situated on working farmlet on Mt Taranaki.
8. 9 Surrey Hill Rd, RD4, Oakura Hosts: Emma and William Thorp Open: Weekends 10am-4pm
Admission: koha
Attraction: established lifestyle block surrounded by native trees and stream is in the very beginning stages of sustainable
development utilizing a Greenbridge design, chooks, orchard, vegetable beds, pond composting/mulching, erosion control
planting organic fertiliser, culinary herbs, young shelterbelt, recycled bath, stone bricks troughs, site of cultural significance.

2. 9. 17 Regent Place, Blagdon,
New Plymouth
Urban food forest
Host: Miranda Palmer
Open: Sunday 1st + Monday 2nd
November
10am-4pm
Admission: koha
Attraction: established one year ago from a typical 550m2 suburban section using permaculture philosophy. Now packed
with a varieties of fruit trees - (pip, stone, and subtropicals), berries, veggies, greenhouse, bees and chickens. Soil built using
return to earth compost, well-rotted wood chips with rock plus, seaweed and manure.
10. 38 Glenpark Ave, Frankleigh
Park, New Plymouth
Hosts: Peter & Myška Open: Saturday 31 October +
Sunday 1st
November 10am-4pm
Admission: koha
water
Attraction: urban, quarter-acre, organic garden which follows permaculture principles. Peter & Myška are enthusiastic
about growing their own food, sharing produce and working on community projects.
11. 14 Waiwera Place,
Merrilands, New Plymouth
A dynamic permaculture place in the
heart of suburbia
Host: Nick Brown
Open: Weekends 10am-1pm.
Children under 5 need to be supervised
Admission: gold coin donation
Attraction: Urban setting, young food forest, clever use of recycled elements, network of swales, water storage (± 9,000 ltr),
water/pond, chook tractor in dome rotates over garden worm and double burn earth oven.
12. 4 Smith Road, Merrilands,
New Plymouth 4312
Villa Bumblebee
Host: Franziska von Hünerbein
Open: Weekends 10am-4pm and
Wednesday 4th
November 10am-4pm
Admission: koha
Attraction: Using vertical space as growing space with the aim to grow as much high quality organic food as possible on an
urban section (550ssqm), 32 fruit trees, berry bushes, productive ground covers and climbers, a greenhouse and vegetable
gardens, a grid tied photo voltaic system provides home made power, bottle fruits and vegetables, dry herbs, bake bread &
cake, make beeswax candles.
13. 11 Cody Place, Waiwhakaiho,
New Plymouth
Katere Ki Te Moana Marae
Host: Glen Skipper
Open: Weekends 10am-4pm
Admission: koha
Partly
Attraction: vegetable gardens, orchards, seed saving, soil building, industrial wood mulch, huglekultur beds, up-cycling, no-till
and food-forest garden concepts are all being used and explored. “Our focus for our garden has been on encouraging family
time together, involving our children and community, growing nutrient dense food and renewing our relationships with envi-
ronment and with each other.” Says Glen Skipper
Learn by seeing. Be inspired.
591 Otaraoa Rd