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Living with the Land On demand for groups of 4-8 people A week on the land, living the good life. Come and stay in our home (shared accommodation), living amongst our trees and animals, working on, learning about, producing from, and eating off our land. Learn the skills to grow and harvest and store your own fruit, vegetables and animals in a holistic integrated system. Gather hundreds of ideas and inspiration in a packed week living the good life! |
Practical modules will be nine of the following – depending on weather/season/interest
Milking a house cow
Making butter/yoghurt/ simple cheese
Making bread - three easy ways
Planting trees
Processing meat (jerky/sausages/smoking)
Killing and plucking poultry
Compost making / making liquid fertiliser and mulching
Small machinery maintenance
Vegetable garden seed planting / making seed-raising mix
Seed saving techniques
Pruning a home orchard
Micro-climates/frost protection techniques
Harvesting and storing produce - drying, freezing, processing, orchard hygiene
Discussion modules will be four or five of the following - depending on interest
Designing your block
Selecting trees for the home orchard
Growing nutrient-dense food
Managing pasture naturally
Making silage on a small scale
Raising poultry - chickens, ducks, quail and meat chickens
Keeping pigs
Working with Wwoofers
Making money from the land
Organic, bio-dynamic and natural farming philosophies
Milking a house cow
Making butter/yoghurt/ simple cheese
Making bread - three easy ways
Planting trees
Processing meat (jerky/sausages/smoking)
Killing and plucking poultry
Compost making / making liquid fertiliser and mulching
Small machinery maintenance
Vegetable garden seed planting / making seed-raising mix
Seed saving techniques
Pruning a home orchard
Micro-climates/frost protection techniques
Harvesting and storing produce - drying, freezing, processing, orchard hygiene
Discussion modules will be four or five of the following - depending on interest
Designing your block
Selecting trees for the home orchard
Growing nutrient-dense food
Managing pasture naturally
Making silage on a small scale
Raising poultry - chickens, ducks, quail and meat chickens
Keeping pigs
Working with Wwoofers
Making money from the land
Organic, bio-dynamic and natural farming philosophies
All meals and accommodation included.
Participants will share our lifestyle for the week, a genuine country experience.
You will be caring for, making and eating home-grown organic food.
You will leave with a provided booklet of notes (including recipes), cuttings, seeds and produce you have made and a head buzzing full of ideas and inspiration.
Cost
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 $750 per person - $1400 per couple
Participants will share our lifestyle for the week, a genuine country experience.
You will be caring for, making and eating home-grown organic food.
You will leave with a provided booklet of notes (including recipes), cuttings, seeds and produce you have made and a head buzzing full of ideas and inspiration.
Cost
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 $750 per person - $1400 per couple
What people have said:
A HUGE thank you again for such a wonderful week!! It was far better than I could of imagined and I learnt so much!!
I have been raving about you to all my friends!!
Heli – with kids and calves and chickens on a lifestyle block in the Bay of Plenty
Thank you to you and Steven for such a lovely week. I learnt so many new skills that I am bursting with enthusiam and would rather stay at home and make bread and sausages and plant out my spring vegetable garden that go to work.
Lesley – living on a block in Tokoroa
A HUGE thank you again for such a wonderful week!! It was far better than I could of imagined and I learnt so much!!
I have been raving about you to all my friends!!
Heli – with kids and calves and chickens on a lifestyle block in the Bay of Plenty
Thank you to you and Steven for such a lovely week. I learnt so many new skills that I am bursting with enthusiam and would rather stay at home and make bread and sausages and plant out my spring vegetable garden that go to work.
Lesley – living on a block in Tokoroa
