Garden Club NZ: Recent Episodes
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Come listen to some garden chat. Learn from fellow gardeners and celebrate the successes we have growing in Canterbury Region, New Zealand. We will chat about a range of gardening topics, gaining knowledge and meeting inspiring gardeners.
Wanting to host more Monarch butterflies in your garden? Or would just would love to learn more about them? This is the podcast for you. Today we have a visit from Maria Romera who founded Butterfly Musketeers. The butterfly musketeers travel around New Zealand to educate us all about this endangered species. She has even written a book documenting her knowledge - “An Educational Guide on Monarch Butterflies”. We discuss how to grow and care for the caterpillars food source, the swan plants, so that you can create a magical butterfly sanctuary in your own back yard.
Every thought about growing veggies over the Winter? Have attempted but had issues? Then this episode is for you. Jack lives with his lovely wife Petra on the outskirts of Geraldine and they live a 90% self-sufficiency life off their garden. We hear about the planning involved in being able produce enough vegetables to achieve this, his pest protection approach and how he uses his growing space.
This garden chat is about the Kaiapoi Food Forest. Brent and his wife Shirley have turned an area of red zoned land into a thriving food forest that supports it`s community to connect, nourish, educate and inspire. As a result they were awarded the 2020 Ryman Healthcare Garden of the Year award. We chat about what a forest is, what costs are involved and how to grow your own.
This garden chat is about the Kaiapoi Food Forest. Brent and his wife Shirley have turned an area of red zoned land into a thriving food forest that supports it`s community to connect, nourish, educate and inspire. As a result they were awarded the 2020 Ryman Healthcare Garden of the Year award. We chat about what a forest is, what costs are involved and how to grow your own.