Auckland Branch

Tuesday 23rd July 2013 from 7.15pm
990 Great North Road, Western Springs.

Benji Woodman will speak on Low Maintenance Orchard Design.

Tuesday 25th June 2013 from 7.15pm.
990 Great North Road Western Springs.

Mid Year Dinner –

Mulled wine (or fruit juice) to start,

then a

Pot Luck Dinner – please bring a savoury dish (instead of a sweet plate)

After Dinner: bring your tree crop questions for our Panel to answer.
There will be a nice prize for the best question.

Tuesday 28th May 2013 from 7.15pm.
990 Great North Road, Western Springs

Richard Main – Projects Manager for Gardens4Health, a Ministry of Health funded programme encouraging targeted populations to grow food.

Do you have something to bring along for the interest table?

Saturday 4th May 2013 – Field trip

10am Leafy Hollow Lavender
www.lavendergarden.co.nz
Duff Road Waiuku, for morning tea ($5 charge)

and then to

Drury Hill Wines
www.druryhillswines.co.nz
(take your own lunch) Drury Hills Rd, Drury.

Contact branch for possible carpooling.

Tuesday 23rd April 2013
Auckland Horticultural Centre, 990 Great North Road, Western Springs.

Cup of tea/coffee at 7.15pm before meeting commences at 7.30pm

Speaker: Colin McPike on “Vermicompost use in commercial horticulture”

26th March 2013
Auckland Horticultural Centre, 990 Great North Road, Western Springs
Cup of tea/coffee at 7.15pm before meeting commences at 7.30pm

Reg Lewthwaite on “Mulches for trees – how many of the advertising myths do you believe?”

A 4 year mulch trial growing Pittosporum at Unitec has interesting results for plants and the environment. The 7 different treatments have surprising results. A visit to Unitec for prior to the meeting to view plantings. More details closer to time.

26th February 2013
Auckland Horticultural Centre, 990 Great North Road, Western Springs
Cup of tea/coffee at 7.15pm before meeting commences at 7.30pm

Plums – hold some varieties in the fridge. For this meeting if you can!!!!

David Anstice from the FOODBOWL (an open-access plant dedicated to fostering and advancing New Zealand’s food innovators) and Martyn Atack from food inc (food industry consultants) will talk about how we could use our surplus fruit in food product development, quality systems management, production, packaging, and marketing.

Tuesday 27th November 2012

from 7.15pm. 990 Great North Road Western Springs

Mulled wine (or fruit juice) to start, then
A quick AGM, then –
Pot Luck Dinner – please bring a savoury dish (instead of a sweet plate)
After Dinner – “20 years on – challenge and change”

Tanya Cumberland and Charmaine Pountney from earthtalk at awhitu will tell us of their venture into subtropical orchards, gardens, coastal native bush, tour groups, markets and delicious organic food for their farmstay guests.

Tuesday 23rd October 2012 from 7.15pm.

990 Great North Road Western Springs.

Virgil Evetts – a cook, writer and avid food cropper will talk on growing and consuming unusual edibles. Some areas which may be discussed: ‘digital plant collecting”- sourcing seeds from overseas, the processes, the pitfalls etc… Growing the more unusual fruits like Prune plums, mulberries, astringent persimmons, currant grapes, babaco, curry leaf…
Virgil spent 16 years as a gallery manager and educator at Auckland Museum before embarking upon a career in freelance writing, specialising in food, gardening and related topics. He has written for New Zealand Gardener Magazine, Cuisine, The New Zealand Herald and others. –This talk sounds really interesting – Don’t miss this one!!!!

Saturday morning 29th September 2012 8.30am to 1pm 990 Great North Road Western Springs. Grafting workshop for apples and pears. Bring a fixed knife (Stanley knife is good) and a pair of secateurs.