Wednesday, March 4th, 2020
I look forward to seeing you at one or all of our events: Nursery & home garden tour, fruit tasting, nursery catalogue & orchard planner release. No-dig vegetable growing & orchard planning workshops
Thursday, March 14th, 2019
This year we stoked to be releasing our 2019 Fruits Nursery Catalogue and holding our Apple Tasting at the Open Day of George Street Orchard, Rory’s abundant & diverse innercity fruit garden.
Taste a huge selection of delicious apples and chat with us about the best fruit trees and berries to plant in your garden this winter.
This is a great chance to look around George Street Orchard and see how fruit trees, bushes and vines can be creatively fitted into a very small innercity section.
Rory will also have a great range of potted plants for sale on the day:
Grapes, Figs, Aronia berries, Goumi berries, Monkey puzzle nut trees, Chestnuts, Asparagus & Echinacea.
We are likely to do a tour of Habitate Nursery in April as part of Organic Week, email to get on our mailing list so that you get tipped off.
“George Street Orchard is in the tenth year of becoming a resilient, diverse and delicious garden. Our aim is to grow many of the foods we like to eat in a way which captures atmospheric carbon, builds soil, increases biodiversity and blurs the distinction between ornamental and utilitarian. To these ends, we emphasise perennial and self-seeding annual plants and mimic and encourage natural patterns.
The garden is structured to accommodate approximately thirty species of fruiting trees, shrubs and vines – some well known and proven in this region, others experimental, but all selected for being viable in, if not perfectly suited to our unique climate. Vegetables, herbs, medicinal plants, chickens and mushrooms are coordinated and shuffled within.
We host tours and workshops to discuss and demonstrate the design and techniques we have found to be successful, hopefully inspiring action for flourishing edible environments in the city and beyond.” https://georgestreetorchard.com
Tuesday, March 13th, 2018
We hope that you can come to our open day, tour our nursery and Taste Nature Gardens, taste some apples and apple juice straight from the press and share in a potluck picnic.
Habitate Nursery & Taste Nature Gardens Open Day 2018
Sunday 25th March 1-4pm
Behind the old general store 36 Harvey Street, Waitati.
Tours at 1.30pm
Apple Tasting Table at 2.15pm
Potluck Picnic
Taste Nature Gardens are a beautiful and diverse organic market garden, supplying Taste Nature – Dunedin’s organic shop. Mark & Rayna Dickson & Rory Harding will be there to tell you all about it
Habitate Heritage Fruits Nursery Catalogue Release for Habitate Nursery: A mail order nursery supplying quality organically grown fruit trees and berry bushes – tasty, easy to grow varieties for home orchards
Koha
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See you there, Jason
Monday, February 29th, 2016
We warmly invite you to our annual nursery open day, this year its combined with Taste Nature Gardens (http://www.tastenature.co.nz/the-garden/).
Bring a blanket and soak up the goodness of this diverse and beautiful productive permaculture property.
Dont miss the fruit tastings of heritatge fruits and our 2016 catalogue release.
Friday, May 22nd, 2015
Order your black currant & gooseberry bushes online now, for june and August delivery.
Great sized healthy plants, at a great price – certified organic with Organic Farm New Zealand.
Friday, May 22nd, 2015
Small scale chicken keeping workshop with Nick Holmes and Jason Ross. Venue: Habitate Farm and Jason’s Home Garden. Covering chicken care and run design.
Tuesday, April 24th, 2012
Science is slowly catching up with what we can taste and feel: “Older varieties of fruit and veg may be considerably healthier than their modern supermarket equivalents, researchers claim”.
One of our all time favourite apples, Egremont Russet is mentioned in the following article a friend just sent me:
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/
Pictured are apples on our display at the Waitati A&P Show.