Biodiversity in the Garden

Go Eco are hosting a series of free gardening workshops this winter, and welcome beginners and experts to join us.

In this workshop, we will talk about the importance of biodiversity for functioning natural systems. We will discuss how we can encourage biodiversity and use it to our benefit. Biodiversity is a lot more than mammal and insect life, it includes microbial and fungal life as well so part of this workshop is on how we can get all these natural elements to do some of the work for us and increase pest and disease resistance. If there is a creature that does a job well it is always best to let that creature do the job as part of its natural way of life rather than having to do it ourselves. So let's work on increasing our biological workforce by enhancing biodiversity.

This is the first of a series of Free Winter Gardening Workshops.
1-3pm Saturday 3 July How to make biochar
10-12pm, Saturday 17 July Intro to worm farming
10-12pm, Saturday 24 July Prepare a spring garden
10-12pm Saturday 31 July Raising plants from seed
10-12pm Saturday 7 August Growing kuumara tipu
1-3pm Saturday 14 August Make your own fertiliser
10-12pm Saturday 21st August Biodiversity in the garden
10-12pm Saturday 28th August Starting a seed garden