Already said it - way cheaper and a whole lot easier just to buy it. Again, not the point. Because it matters. It really does. It’s been happening since the dawn of time. At some point in our lives, no matter how small, we need to know how to grow our own food. Actually grow it. This is the only way we can begin to really understand the Earth and what she can do. By putting a plant into the ground, feeding and watering it, fighting bugs and critters, experiencing the frustration of things gone plain wrong, and the times of quiet joy when you can say “I just walked out to the garden and picked this.” I promise that will happen. Otherwise it is all just words, magazine articles, TV lifestyle shows - unless you are actually doing it, you won’t “get” the very humanness of growing food from the earth.

When: Sun 15th Oct, 10am-3pm

This event will be combined with the 'How to grow a gorgeous flower garden' workshop

Where: Wainui/Waitoki area, address tba

Cost: $80

Tutor: Margaret Tremaine and Robyn Dyer.

What you need to bring: TBA

Margaret Tremaine - Gardening Guru

Home: Upper Waiwera Valley with her family for the last 8 years. Professional and Life Qualifications: 29 years of designing, planting and maintaining residential, commercial and rural gardens. This includes the redevelopment and rescue of just about all styles and forms of gardens possible. Studied Landscape Design and Amenity Horticulture (Massey University, Palmerston North), at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, England and most recently Permaculture in Matakana. Hobbies: Food, gardens, healthy environments and sustainability. I tend to eat, breath and talk gardening with anyone willing to listen, so I am so looking forward to meeting you all and sharing my skills and knowledge. Best country ever visited: New Zealand Fave food: Tabouli and Falafel Most cherished childhood memory: Stewart Island in the summer rain. Next/Top of your bucket list: Paris Your hero: My husband As I get older: I continue to learn that I know very little If I could have changed one thing while I was at school: I would have attended class more often Other than my children, the thing I love so much that all else fades into insignificance: Life