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Foraging and growing Workshops coming to Nelson on the 4th and 5th of February, looking for the enthusiasm to learn! Registration by email is essential. Thank you💐Come and join both days, one day or one, two or 3 workshops and spend lovely time in nature and with like minded people.
We will be learning about more sustainable ways of living. NO NEED FOR PRIOR KNOWLEDGE WE’LL LEARN EVERYTHING FROM THE VERY BEGINNING. 3 workshops are planned for the first day and 3 for the second day with a healthy food potluck in between the workshops! Come for the whole day or 1 or two workshops! Registration is essential, 20$pp per workshop, there are few free places or koha/veg from the gardens for those who cannot afford or would want to simply opt to share some energy in this way. all good just let me know while registering in pm or by email: [email protected]
Let me know how many ppl are attending, what workshops are you after, your phone number.
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Come for the whole weekend, day with the potluck or just one or two workshops.
Workshops of the day: FORAGING PART 1 (WHOLESOME INTRODUCTION), Sun Drying - ancient zero waste and cost way to preserve your food, Foraging part 2 (continuation of part 1).
+ please bring a healthy food platter for a potluck (wholefoods or food from your garden) to keep us going for the whole day and a cuppa, some water will be great too).
I'm hitchhiking all the way from Chch to Whangarei and back to Chch with a purpose to pass on knowledge, spread Natural Intelligence (NI:) around, I'm doing that to meet you guys, hoping that it contributed ms a bit for a better world. who is with me willing to learn?
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Workshops schedule:
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Day 1: Friday
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From 11-2pm introduction to foraging Part 1,
From 2-3pm break/healthy potluck (bring a healthy food platter whole foods or something from your garden, or what you feel will be good to bring)
From 3pm-5:30pm Sun Drying workshop
Please bring some fruit, plums or peaches, apricots, nectarines, apples, pears etc or tomatoes and zucchinis for the workshop.
Break/potluck from 5:30pm until 6/6:15pm
From 6pm-8:30/9pm Foraging part 2 workshop.
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Day 2 Saturday
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From 11-13pm Grafting summer and most sustainable techniques on how to clone almost any fruit tree with zero waste and cost.
From 13-14pm Healthy food potluck, please bring your own platter of wholefoods or some yummies from your garden!
From 14-16:30pm GROW YOUR OWN EDIBLE FUNGI! Another very interesting workshop! I'll show you how to grow oyster mushrooms on the day. I love talking about these guys as they can eat plastic, glyphosate, petroleum converting them into sugars they so adore. As they can help solve some global issues I think it's time to learn about them. And how to grow them so we can eat them as they are very tasty too.
from 16:30-17:30pm - healthy food bring your own platter potluck!
17:30pm - 20:30pm Flax/Harakeke making water bottle/pot holder (so you can walk anywhere never forgetting your water bottle and it won't have to be ever bought from a cheap store again you ll be able to repair it anytime! Please bring your water bottle for the workshop cone shaped Disney like plasticky water bottles or something similar has proven to be too slippery to work with, so not these 20$ pp per workshop ono. Registration essential via pm or better email: [email protected] please let your friends and family, neighbours know, looking forward to meeting everyone
PS: Please bring your own cuppa for potlucks, for the sun drying workshop it's best to bring sharp knives and a wee chopping board with a bit of fruit and veg for the demonstration (apricots, plums, peaches, apples, figues, pears, zucchinis or courgettes if you prefer:) tomatoes, if anyone has Roma variety? and does anyone have Tomson seedless grapes variety? would be great to have a bit for the workshop.
For grafting, we will need a sharp knife (a kitchen knife will be as great as those for the cardboard, any sharp one) for mushroom growing workshop. If you got banana boxes or egg cartons you could comfortably bring it ll be great.also a healthy food platter for potlucks (wholefoods or any yummies from your garden, or anything you'd consider to be healthy and most people would agree:) and for the flax weaving water bottle holders, please bring your water bottle.
Workshops description:
Foraging part 1
Wholesome introduction to foraging
Duration: 3 hours
This is a very wholesome
introductory workshop that will give an in depth understandings about plants and why foraging can help to live a healthier life and help our planet to thrive when one adds it to a lifestyle.
We will talk about where plants come from and what their life purpose is. We will learn some tools to help us with identification and understanding when we could harvest what. We will start with the asteraceae family and then explore several different plants from different families.
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SUN DRYING WORKSHOP
While canning and preserving (including refrigeration & freezing) are extremely energy-consuming processes (relatively recent inventions of the industrial revolution time), sun drying is one of the oldest and most sustainable methods to preserve food dating back several thousands of years.
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FORAGING PART 2
In this part we do a quick recap of what we had learnt in the part 1 and continue to dive even further into the plant world with the help of the brassica family and then we will explore several different families.
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1 workshop) Water bottle/plant holder making out of harakeke/Flax
Duration 3 hours
2 workshop) Making arm and shoulder bracelets out of Harakeke/Flax and other plants.
Duration 2 or 2,5 hours
3rd workshop can be any that you like. You are welcome to express your preference when registering via email💚🌻the list of all Workshops that I guide is on my Foraging and Growing corner page, in the photos section. Feel free to browse through, dear💚🌻
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Feel free to come with your family,friends, neighbours and furry companions, please share this event.
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I encourage everyone to walk, cycle or bus to the event as part of the experience and help not to impact the environment. I will have some special gifts for the ones who do 🌻💚
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Please allow enough time to immerse into the workshop with no rush"
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REGISTRATION IS Essential for further details (I ll send you the address, and exact timings for the workshops closer to the day)
20$ per person per workshop, children are free, animals welcome.
You are welcome to choose to share some veggies or produce from your garden, and If not possible just let me know via email when registering at [email protected]
Please provide your name, phone number, how many people are attending and which area you will be coming from.
all workshops will proceed from 10 people onwards
About your guide: Good day, my name is Inga and I travelled a good part of the world with no savings just supporting myself playing music when anxiety wasn’t taking the best of me. I was looking for some healthier lifestyle that would be truly contributing to a better world and foraging and growing seems to be truly bringing more balance, reconnection with nature , teaching resilience, independent thinking, ingenuity yet it also connects people with their authentic selves and other people too. I find both foraging and growing are like yin and yang - none is the answer yet both balance each other and complement when it's necessary. I believe adding bit by bit all the understandings from the workshops helps our world be a better place, helps with mental and physical health while reconnecting us with our true purpose. Hope you have a lovely day, looking forward to meeting you
Dates of the Natural Intelligence (NI:) tour 10th Jan to 8 Feb
List of places:
10 Picton
18,19 Auckland
23/24 potentially Kawa Kawa, kerikeri, kaitaia
25,26 Whangarei
1, 2 Feb Wellington
4,5th Feb Nelson
8th Feb Kaikoura
Unless there is enthusiasm further down south or other places? Make sure to let me know🌻
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Event Venue & Nearby Stays
Waimarama Community Organic Gardens, Nelson, New Zealand
