Soil & Health Auckland Branch
For branch membership and newsletter send $5 to:
Ian and Patricia Fielding
24 Waiari Road, Takanini 2112, Auckland
Phone 09 298 8693
Your newsletter Organically Speaking
Needs your contributions of snippets, hints, clippings, stories etc. relating to gardening, health etc.
Just send them to: Patricia at 24 Waiari Road, Takanini: fax 298 5293.
or to John at 4 Exmouth Rd, Northcote, Auckland. Email: jrailton@hotmail.com
MONTHLY MEETINGS
ALL WELCOME (members and non-members)
Meetings are held on the third Tuesday each month (Feb to Nov)
Starting at 7.30pm
There will be a guest speaker on Organics or Health and a well-supplied trading table
Cost: $2 at door to cover hall hire
Come early for the trading table. We usually have lots to cover, and
try and to have the speaker finished by 9pm. Then time for more trading
table, supper and talking. Contributions to shared supper appreciated.
Trading table: Usually a wide range of produce or products brought by
members. So bring your stuff to sell (even surplus garden or health
books - that spare bunch of silverbeet or tomatoes etc etc you can't
keep up with. You may donate some or all of the proceeds to branch
funds - but only if you wish.
Auckland Horticultural Centre
Western Springs Gardens
990 Great North Road
Directly opposite Motions Road, the road that goes to the Zoo. There is plenty of parking below the building.
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Monthy meetings 2011
Tuesday 19 July – 7.30pm
Gail Nicholls natural health practitioner from Speedwell Clinic on The Mysterious Life of Plants and their Powerful Health Qualities.
Monthy meetings reports:
Tuesday 19 October 2010
Bashi Singh, a qualified
medical herbalist and clinical neuromuscular therapist, talking about
‘Flower healing using Bach flower essences and aromatherapy’. Read about Bashi's talk here
FIELD TRIPS
Note: Bring koha donations for hosts, thank you
Saturday 26th March 2011
10.30am sharp, Unitec Carrington Rd ,Gate 3, Point Chev.
Inke Blackett will show us the Sanctuary organic Garden, a sustainable productive garden.
Directions: From Gate 3, then past vets clinics, turn right past sports field follow around to left, past cafe, turn left at T junction, meet at building No 40, 'sanctuary' on building, about 50 metres on right from junction.
About 12 noon
69 Daventry St, Waterview (please wait outside). Meet at Justin & Anne Newcombe's house. Justin from Landscape Safaris will show us their garden. Bring food for a shared lunch.
Saturday 30th April 2011
9.45am sharp, 1773 State Highway One.
Meet at Tom Morrison's KENNELWORTH ORCHARD and fruit stall 15km north of the tunnel, 2km nth of Honey Centre and 2km South of Warkworth. Tom will talk about his organic growing.
11.30am
961 Tauhoa Rd, Kiapara Flats (continuation of Kaipara Flats Rd). Meet at Spencer and Carie Drinkwater's KOTARE COUNTRY LODGE, which is on the left 2km north of Warkworth. Spencer will show us his productive block - Olives, Feijoas, Citrus, Beef - Wetland QE2 covenant and much more. Bring food for a shared lunch.
Field trip reports from 2010:
Saturday 27th february 2010
We had 2 wonderful field trips on Sat 27th Feb. The first to the Gray's at Dairy Flat was a wonderful example of a rural organic property with heaps of gardens,compost bins, worm farms, chickens of all kinds, fruit trees, interesting garden tools, etc. etc. With surprises at every corner. I could have stayed there all day and continued to learn and be inspired. Thanks Brian and Christine.
The second to Heirloom Organix was great, an inspiration with organic orchard. Seedling enterprise and what a vision can achieve. Thanks Rob and Murry.
If you missed these field days you really missed out! (thanks for organising them Brenda)
Sunday 26 September 2010
We visited Tania and Charmaine’s Earthtalk @ Awhitu, an inspirational,
sustainable 28-acre organic oasis (see www.earthtalk.co.nz) in Awhitu.
Earthtalk @ Awhitu - Read the report and see photos here
