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.

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.

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!

Please note that this event has been cancelled.

Join us at Kelmarna Gardens for this crash course in growing native NZ oyster mushrooms with Ellen Schindler, including comprehensive background on cultivating mushrooms plus materials and instruction to guide you through the process of setting up your own container. Come away not only with the finished product but also the skills and confidence to carry on growing at home on your own!

Learn about modern cloth nappies and how they're easier to fit into a modern lifestyle than you think! Kate is an expert of 16+ years, and there's nothing she hasn't come across. You also get a gift pack worth $80 to take.More info at our website!

Join us for the Sustainability Society Green Drinks. This month during EcoFest we are exploring some key insights from the extreme weather we have experienced and it's implications for the future.

We are inviting professionals involved in aspects of our urban water systems to briefly share some of their key insights. No power-points or long presentations just a rolling boil of conversation.

Our farmers Jake and Tom will guide you through practical tasks in the art of regenerative-organic farming at our lead urban regenerative farm OMG.We see regenerative urban farms as Climate Change Ready Infrastructure and a way to grow radical hope through food in our times of climate change and biodiversity loss.Discover the potential and wonder that plants and soil microbes have to offer! Wear sturdy clothes you don't mind getting a bit dirty - and gloves if you have them. Wear covered shoes and sun protection. Everyone is welcome!

Our farmers Jake and Tom will guide you through practical tasks in the art of regenerative-organic farming at our lead urban regenerative farm OMG.We see regenerative urban farms as Climate Change Ready Infrastructure and a way to grow radical hope through food in our times of climate change and biodiversity loss.Discover the potential and wonder that plants and soil microbes have to offer! Wear sturdy clothes you don't mind getting a bit dirty - and gloves if you have them. Wear covered shoes and sun protection. Everyone is welcome!