The Village Educational Garden – Sustainable Backyard is a demonstration garden that has been designed to illustrate sustainable principles and show some of the ways in which a typical suburban backyard can be transformed into a productive and edible landscape.
It features; various sustainable gardening techniques, native/fruit trees, herb/vegetable gardens, beehive, worm farms, composting, propagation, water saving techniques, pizza oven and various educational resources.
In the Sustainable Backyard you will see examples of sustainable garden design:
Workshops
VEG offers a number of workshops throughout the year, also in conjunction with various likeminded groups, individuals, EIT and GDC. Some of these include; worm farming, composting and bokashi, backyard bee keeping, willow weaving, fruit tree pruning, oil infusion, growing micro greens, various garden related …and many more – please see calendar
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Collaboration
TEC Collaborates with the EIT Sustainable Horticulture department to create a model garden that demonstrates sustainable techniques, for growing food and other sustainable backyard examples that people can use at home.
HB WIlliams Memeorial Trust and JN WIlliams Turanga Trust.