Create Your Own Eden

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Create your own Eden is a national programme where you can find all the detail you need to know on how to make great compost, improve your soil and produce fantastic fertilisers for your plants, veggies and garden all for free. The site covers traditional composting using a heap or bin, vermiculture or worm farming, and Bokashi.

Nelson City Council is a partner with Create Your Own Eden and offers local courses and workshops using the Create Your Own Eden information.

New Create Your Own Eden workshops for 2010

A full range of Create Your Own Eden road shows and workshops is planned for Autumn.  Remember, you do need to register for the workshops as places are limited but everything is free and you’ll learn lots. This year the workshops in Nelson are on ‘Gardening in an Urban Section’ and cover the following topics:

  • Site selection
  • Seed saving & planting
  • Making & maintaining healthy soil
  • Crop rotation & companion planting
  • Weed & pest control

 The road shows are made up of several short snappy presentations on different aspects of composting and food growing so you can pick lots of handy tips and tricks simply by stopping off while you shop. Check out the full programme below.  For workshop registrations phone Nelson City Council on 546 0280 or email administration.support@ncc.govt.nz.

March

Sat 13        Roadshow – Bunnings, Stoke/Richmond 10am – 2pm

Wed 17      Roadshow – Nelson Farmers Market, Fashion Island, Nelson 3pm – 6pm

Sat 20        Workshop – Nayland College 2pm – 4pm

April

Sat 10        Roadshow – Nelson Recycle Centre, Stoke 11am – 2pm

Sat 17        Workshop – Tahunanui Community Centre 2pm – 4pm

May

Sat 1          Roadshow - Mitre 10 Mega, Stoke 11am – 2pm

Sat 8           Workshop – Victory Community Centre 2 pm – 4pm

Council and CYOE partnership

Nelson City Council is a partner in Create Your Own Eden, a collection of other local Councils that have joined together to spread the word about the many benefits of home composting.

Visit the Create Your Own Eden website.  

More information

If you would like more information on this or other forms of composting, download the handy Create Your Own Eden 'how to' guide for composting, worm farms, and Bokashi from the Create Your Own Eden website, or call Council on +64 3 546 0200 for a copy.

Link to the Create Your Own Eden website to download the 'how to' guide to composting.