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  Homegrown Harvest

On demand for groups of 4-8 people  

Being sustainable is not just about growing your own food - there is also harvesting, storing, processing and cooking it to produce nutritious meals for your family.
 Spend a weekend gleaming a hundred ideas how to do this easily, cheaply and efficiently.
 Have a go at milking a house cow,  learn how to make butter and yogurt,  gourmet sausages,  easy bread and  sugar-free jam (
you'll never settle for  less again!).
Swap 
food storage and processing hints and ideas with Sheryn, or head into the workshop with Steve for ideas regarding lawnmower and chainsaw maintenance,  homemade smokers, liquid compost systems, dehydrators etc. 
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It's a fun weekend sharing techniques that turn raw produce into nourishing food and junk into useful objects.

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Modules include:
Milking the cow 
Design and maintenance tips for a home orchard
Maintaining a vegetable garden 

Drying fruit, vegetables, herbs and meat.
Harvesting, handling and storing a wide range of produce.

Making your own gourmet sausages 
Dealing with home kill - when and how.
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How to corn your own beef and make jerky
How to construct your own smoker, dehydrator etc. from recycled goods.

Smoking - cold (cheese and salmon) and hot (meat).

Making bread - Three simple easy ways for busy people: traditional, easy high health and on the go.
Making butter, including herb butters and semi-soft
Super easy sugar-free jam
Making yogurt, mayonnaise/aoli and French dressing


Fencing basics - Joining and straining wire
​Fencing systems - the options and their pluses and minuses
Sharpening a chainsaw
Maintaining a lawnmower
Lifestyle block machinery - what has worked for us - what hasn't.




Arrive Friday evening and stay until Sunday afternoon.
All accommodation and meals provided.
Share our lifestyle, eat
home-grown organic food, enjoy the company,  and receive a booklet of notes, hints and recipes.
It's an interesting weekend get-away. 

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For groups of 5+ on demand .
​ If individually  interested please  contact us  
 and we will try to schedule a date with others to make up a group. 
Cost $300pp - $500 per couple 
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What people have said:
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A lovely group of people which really added to the course.  I like how Sheryn is non-judgmental about different gardening philosophies.
 And an unexpected bonus to be going home with lots of cuttings!
Catherine is renovating an overgrown garden in the Waikato.

Hospitality has been extraordinary.  Creativity, knowledge and humour bounces from the insides to the out.  Did I mention the food?  
I should have mentioned the food.  
So happy I came.  I really should have mentioned the food.
Mary is an experienced permaculturist who grows food for her whanau on her block in Hawkes Bay.  I think she just came for  the food!

Thank you for the stunning venue, stunning food and your generous nature of sharing everything you know and have. 
Wow!  I am  so  much awe - have had a really wonderful learning experience.
Christine has a block for her horses north of Auckland where she wants to plant some productive trees.
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