Grow the food you love to eat

Turn your garden into a healing sanctuary packed full of food and flowers, all grown in healthy soil.

How would you like to be growing the food you most love to eat, saving yourself unnecessary trips out to the shops. Instead, just wander out into your garden and harvest organic produce that is literally still alive. Garden to table means just that - perhaps rinsing off a little of the soil before you head to the kitchen to cook.

The question for so many people is this: "Where do I start?"

I recommend a quick call to discuss your situation, and I can quite quickly recommend some options, no matter what size your garden. Beginners and advanced gardeners are all welcome. Send an email to katrina@blueborage.co.nz or phone/text on 022-410-4988.

Alternatively, you can get my weekly tips for gardening by the moon - it's free.

EVENTS AND WORKSHOPS

ONLINE COURSES (SELF PACED STUDY)

BIODYNAMICS IN THE HOME GARDEN

GARDENING BY THE MOON

Customised Compost Coaching

Online learning

Wherever you live, you can participate in online study. Start with the most interesting topic, and complete the modules in any order you like. Take a look at my online programmes :

Grow your own microgreens (a free guide for beginners)
Seed Sowing for beginners
Grow your own edible flowers
How to make hot compost
In ground worm farm - the DIY version, upcycle a bucket into a mini soil factory
This selection grows each month as new courses are customised to suit particular groups or workplaces

Workshops

Blue Borage workshops cover a range of topics in edible gardening, all grounded in biodynamic approaches, with no artificial chemicals:

Make your own seed raising mix and potting mix
Discover the lost art of growing food from seeds
Growing your own microgreens and salad greens — even if you haven’t got a garden
Eat beautiful meals garnished with edible flowers
Start transforming your green waste into biodynamic compost

When workplaces build edible gardens, these can become classrooms for a large group to learn in: your staff, your clients, or guests you invite to come and learn. Composting and growing food at work is a fabulous way to demonstrate your dedication to a circular economy.

I also love working with small gardens, and can show you just how much it's possible to grow on an apartment balcony or small courtyard. If you want to share the love of gardening with your children, I’m happy to come to your garden for personal lessons and coaching.

Any questions? Get in touch...

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Katrina making compost with a compost aerator in Titirangi, Auckland

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Workshops & Events

Blue Borage edible gardening workshops are a good way to learn about organic gardening while socialising with like-minded gardeners. Popular topics include composting, worm farming, seed sowing,Read more

Notes from the 2020 Biodynamic Online Conference

I've been a member of the Biodynamic Association of North America for a few years - it started with a webinar I really wanted to attend, and the membership tiers had been freshly established so thatRead more

Seed sowing for spring/summer

Summer is just around the corner, and it's that magical time of year when gardening seems so, so simple. I am meetings lots of people interested in growing from seed for the first time. There are soRead more

Gardening by the Moon: How/What/Why

As a biodynamic gardener, I've been buying moon calendars for a decade now. To start with, it was out of curiosity - the description of all the planetary movements was fascinating, and I wanted toRead more

How's your memory? Let's make composting easier...

I began the year with the intention to make a large hot compost pile each and every month, and here we are in October, and I'm still going strong. The problem? My memory... I know some piles have hRead more

Regenerative, Biodynamics, Permaculture - what method does Blue Borage use?

Here at Blue Borage biodynamics guides all gardening and composting. Did you know biodynamics is one of the earliest methods of modern organic agriculture? It is inherently regenerative - healingRead more

Mrs D's Bird Sanctuary

When I was little we used to spend Christmas with my grandparents in Timaru, and I have vague memories of their garden being full of delights - raspberries, redcurrents and roses. It probably wasn'tRead more

The Workplace Edible Garden: What, Why & How

Note: Skip to the end for all the downloadable resourcesRead more

Small Space Gardening: containers, raised beds or courtyard setting

It's the middle of October... how would I go about starting a small garden right now? Well, for starters, it's the middle of spring, we're limited in water use here in Auckland, and the days areRead more

Hugelkultur (in a raised bed garden)

Hugelkultur, or hugelkultr is a fantastic tool for conserving water in your garden. It's also a super method if you are trying to transform clay soil. I've been experimenting with this method in raisRead more

Online Courses

If you've been to one of my workshops or you're following Blue Borage on social media, then you have had a taster of the Blue Borage approach of edible gardening: simple, creative, innovative andRead more

'Soil with Soul' - the Blue Borage approach to home composting

This is just one possible road map to composting success. I'd love to hear where you are on the journey, and if you are interested in taking the next steps towards even better compost. Read more

Podcast Interview with The Rubbish Trip

Listen to an Blue Borage Podcast Interview from October 2019 about the Blue Borage perspective on waste, composting, food resilience and our food system in general. (42 minutes)

Podcast Interview on Mystic Discoveries

Here's an interview with Amanda Bradley from the Mystic Discoveries podcast, diving into biodynamics for the home gardener. It's long! (just over 2 hours)