EcoFest 2023 Events

This immersive experience features a range of waste-reducing innovation and sustainable tech from around Aotearoa including inspiring initiatives designed to combat clothing, construction and food waste. Get ready to take on the challenge with MOTAT and switch up your thinking to improve our environment. Visit Switch up today and leave inspired by New Zealand's ground breaking innovations.

This is a free to view exhibition event that challengers common perceptions of waste. Showcasing potential of used and reclaimed materials that are typically discarded because they are regarded as useless. MORSEL is a sampling of a better tomorrow .

Please note that this event has been postponed until 23 September 2023.

Join us at Kelmarna Gardens for this comprehensive workshop for beginner and experienced home gardeners alike, hosted by celebrated regenerative gardener Yotam Kay (Pākaraka Permaculture), to cover essential topics for cultivating a productive home garden capable of feeding you and your whānau throughout the year.

Come to learn how you can help the international uprising necessary to make your lifestyle changes really count.
As we all change to living lightly and a liveable planet, we lack the political will to get the emissions down. It seems that once again we the people needs to rise up with nonviolent civil disobedience.

Join celebrated weaving tutor Annie Jane Ah Mu for this full day crash-course at Kelmarna Gardens, and come away with a deepened understanding of the customs and skills of mahi raranga traditional Māori weaving and dying with harakeke, plus a host of your own craft creations to take home and share!

Join our regular volunteers, and expert ecologist, and help us restore the historic and culturally significant Waipapa Stream ecosystem, within Auckland Domain. All tools provided, just bring old clothes and stout shoes or boots.

Learn about creating a productive edible garden in a suburban section. We'll cover soil, compost, chickens, plant selection, propagation, herbs,fruit, berries. Workshop held in a beautiful, mature food forest. Garden art for sale.

Set in a mature food forest garden, this Edible Garden Workshop will inspire you to create a productive garden in your own backyard. We will cover fertile soil, compost, plant selection, rotation, propagation. Interesting for older children (11+ yrs). Only a weather bomb will cancel this event. Take away some seedlings, cuttings. Garden art for sale.

Come learn about the interconnected nature of bees and flowers in this intimate hands-on Bee Experience with beekeeper, Noelani Waters.

You will learn how bees live as superorganisms, make honey, and have evolved with flowers over millennia. See inside the beehive and witness their magic firsthand, in a up-close view of these special and critical pollinators.

Open to ages 6 years and up.

Cycle Babes' fun and free-to-access events provide you with hands-on cycle skills, confidence and leadership abilities in a relaxed group setting. Skills we cover include puncture repair, tyre inflation, safety checks, riding confidence, route planning, cycle touring advice and general tips and tricks. We are women-led and we have seven fun workshop sessions running throughout March 2023. You can find the dates and times of all seven events on Eventbrite.

Sharpen your skills for fruit tree care as the summer winds down, and help them get a jump on the colder months that loom ahead. This session at Kelmarna Gardens will cover pruning techniques, training new wood, reducing canopy overcrowding, and minimising risks from pest and disease, all using our food forest as your outdoor laboratory with both demonstrations and hands-on activities.

This programme is a 5 day deep dive into Regenerative Horticulture, exploring the science and practices behind growing food with a climate lens.

Learn about the ability of plants to heal the planet, through the microbial health in the soil and the magic of photosynthesis, and become a part of our network of optimistic food growers!