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Creating a Hugelkultur Raised Garden Bed – Adding Turf

Anna Kary
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Here’s the fifth stage of our facilitator Jennifer’s progress as she creates a hugelkultur bed at her property. Step 5 – Adding the Turf I thought adding the turf would be easy and it was, but it was a little more fiddly than I expected! When I removed the turf I cut it roughly into

Creating a Hugelkultur Raised Garden Bed – Layering Logs

Anna Kary
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Here’s the fourth update from our Compost Collective facilitator Jennifer, who is sharing how she’s creating a hugelkultur bed at her property. Step 4 – Layering the logs Logs don’t come in a standard shape or size so this was trickier than I thought it would be. It felt like completing a jigsaw puzzle with

Creating a Hugelkultur Raised Garden Bed – Preparing the Ground

Here’s the third update from our Compost Collective facilitator Jennifer, who is sharing how she’s creating a hugelkultur bed at her property. Step 3 – Preparing the ground Once you’ve confirmed there are enough logs to fill the bottom of the bed (and there’s an opportunity here to make your bed bigger or smaller depending

Creating a Hugelkultur Raised Garden Bed – Collecting Logs

Here’s the second update from our Compost Collective facilitator Jennifer, who is sharing how she’s creating a hugelkultur bed at her property. Step 2 – Collecting logs I collected all the big old logs from around our property to check we have enough to fill the hugelkultur bed. The pile is pretty big now! The

Cooking challenge inspires garden growth

‘It’s exciting to think I’ve grown this and I’m now using it’ – Margie, Orewa. After taking part in a ‘leftovers cook-off challenge’ from our friends at Love Food Hate Waste NZ, Margie was inspired to start growing her own food at home. Using things I once thought of as waste When we contacted Margie

Creating a Hugelkultur Raised Garden Bed – Getting Started

This is the first in a series of blogs from Compost Collective facilitator Jennifer Kerr, who’s going to take us through how she’s creating a hugelkultur bed at her property. Tell us a bit about yourself I’m Jennifer Kerr, and I’m passionate about caring for Papatūānuku! That’s why I work as a compost facilitator for

Amandine and Benoit, Grey Lynn

Tell us a bit about yourselves We’re a couple who’ve lived in Auckland for a few years. Amandine is an architect and Benoit is a software developer. Along with her friend Tracey, Amandine is the co-founder of Lagom, an editorial website which shares plant-based recipes, inspiring articles and interviews to empower people, giving them guidance

Homer, Albany

Tell us a bit about yourself. I work in the community gardening and waste minimisation area. Which composting methods do you use? At home, I have four composting ways to cope all kind of organic waste generated from home, even taking in some waste (or rather, resources) from elsewhere in order to keep the system

Isabel and Andrea, CBD

We’re sharing stories from neighbours in Auckland who are connecting over ShareWaste NZ to divert food waste from landfill. This is Isabel (left) and Andrea (right) at Daldy Street Community Garden, Auckland CBD. ISABEL Tell us a bit about yourself. My name is Isabel. I was born in Spain but have been living in Germany

Jenny and Katrina, Titirangi

We’re sharing stories from neighbours in Auckland who are connecting over ShareWaste NZ to divert food waste from landfill. This is Jenny (left) and Katrina (right) from Titirangi. JENNY Tell us a bit about yourself. Jenny from Titirangi. I’m a food safety consultant with an interest in health and wellbeing. Why did you start sharing

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