Toru Trail: Permaculture design to suburban garden and your personal life

This is a Toru Trail Event, find out more about our Toru Trail events here.

We invite you to spend a day at Doris & Bob's, experiencing how permaculture can help you design more than just your garden!

Doris will share her journey of integrating permaculture ethics and principles into her life's questions, her small home garden and community projects in Paekakariki. Through storytelling and practical examples, we'll explore how these principles can help shape our lives and communities for the better.

We'll take a stroll through Doris's garden and engage in some hands-on activities to experience the principles in action. Of course, we will spend considerable time at the various compost heaps (Doris' focus and core interest!): Regenerating soil with home made compost!

Lunch will be provided—feel free to bring a small contribution to go with the homemade bread if you'd like (but not expected).

After lunch, we will explore the design process of creating a base map for your specific setting, whether it be a your home garden, personal question such as 'What's next?' or a community project.

No prior experience in permaculture is needed. With plenty of time for conversation, we hope you will leave with new ideas and connections.

There will also be a crop swap table where we practice the permaculture approach of reciprocity of 'give and take'; you might enjoy bringing seeds, seedlings, produce from your garden, and walk away with something unexpected (again, don't feel obliged to contribute).

For those who are interested, there will be extra options after 2pm, such as a swim in the ocean or a visit to the Miriona Garden, the Paekakariki Community Garden, and of course time for more conversations.

Spaces are limited to 16 spaces to fit into our living room, so make sure you reserve your spot. We are at 59 Wellington Road, up the driveway on your right. Don't follow google directions as that would take you down to the beach. Just come on down Wellington Road, and we are up on your left. Please park below by the lay-by and walk up. We have a friendly little Cavalier type dog called 'Honey' as part of our family.