Growing healthy food starts with making healthy soil.

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.

Where to start?

The weekly email is full of tips for gardening by the moon, and there lots of online options to choose from.

GARDENING BY THE MOON

SUMMER SCHOOL INFORMATION

COMPOSTING TIPS (FREE EBOOK)

HOT COMPOST IN 4 STEPS (FREE PDF)

Customised Compost Coaching

Online learning: the Blue Borage Summer School

Wherever you live, you can participate in online study, so long as you have an internet connection. The best option right now is to join the Blue Borage Summer School - a bundle of 11 courses. You can start with the most interesting topic, and complete the modules in any order you like.

Topics include:

Grow your own microgreens
Growing from seed
Grow your own edible flowers
Hot compost simplified
Foodscaping
In ground worm farming
Hugelkultur
Basic biodynamics in the home garden
Beneficial weeds and companion plants
Container gardening
Herb gardening

More information is in the shop.

Workshops - Book now for Autumn

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. Contact Katrina by email to discuss your requirements.

Any questions? Get in touch...

How's your compost looking?

Katrina making compost with a compost aerator in Titirangi, Auckland

Compost as Art: the 2021 Living Soil Installation

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Online Courses

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Tips for Successful Summer Gardening

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Super Simple Hot Compost - 4 Steps to Success

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Beneficial Weeds & Companion Plants

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Would you like some help planning your edible garden?

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Workshops & Events

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Seed sowing for summer

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Gardening by the Moon: How/What/Why

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You too can turn your garden waste into soil

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Human Design & Your Garden

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Podcast Interview with The Rubbish Trip

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Podcast Interview on Mystic Discoveries

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