Sue Ferens's Page

Hi Sue, I was born in Kaitaia, and have family connections in Opononi and Weka Weka etc. We are very interested in building a presence in the far north. Looking forward to conversations with you, Besitos, Grifen

Hi Sue, I´d be stoked to hear your thoughts on the role of tertiary education in coming decades as we move into the post industrial paradigms, and a possible gaia university campus in nz. Gracias, Grifen

Hi Sue - happy to be on board - will call you today with more info on the funding
cheers, John

I will be building a 10m bed for CBEC in the next few weeks it would be good to be able to do your workshop at the same time so we can reduce traveling costs and carbon footprint

Graeme Kettle`s Concept for a Workshop

I reckon that I can get 7 people to do a 2 day, weekend workshop. I'll charge them $40 and guarantee you, say, $280. If it works out less people I'll make up the difference, if it works out more I'll put some towards materials such as cement (photocopies I can provide anyway), and some towards you. How does this sound?

Your workshops cover more than just raised bed gardens so I'm thinking of promoting it to include things such as (most of which you covered on the course I was on, or are covered in your handouts) :
(1) raised bed gardens from around the world
(2) cloches
(3) drip irrigation
(4) fertigation
(5) worm farms (my brother has just given me a worm farm so we can show them this),
(6) basic composting (I'm in the process of collecting up materials now such as horse manure, grass clippings, gorse (no seeds), so we can quickly put this together on the day if you like
(7) permanent mulch, no dig, no weeding gardens
(8) introduction to permaculture
(9) organic gardening
(10) combining the best of organic and conventional gardening
(11) jurassic soil
(12) fertility banks
(13) carbon banks
(14) Celtic infield/outfield farming
(15) gardening for hard times
(16) sustainable methods of increasing soil fertility
(17) reducing our carbon footprint
etc

Hi Sue,
Would be very keen to do a workshop up at Houhora. Actually was up in Kaitaia last week building a garden in the carpark of a church which used to be part of Destiny Church. I will forward an outline for a workshop put together by Graeme Kettle. If you can get 6-8 people along we can can very quickly put up a lot of beds and still have time for presentations on various aspects of RBG [ Raised Bed Gardening ]
Grant

Kia Ora Sue
Great to hear from another foodie in kaitaia!
Nice photos on the website. Did you take them?
I am interested in food. I want to be focussed in how I involve myself with TTK. I have offered to help John with the environmental film festival as I think that film is a fantastic way of iforming people.
I am hoping to develop food growing through y role as a school teacher. I have been interested and involved in City Farming in the Uk, but am not sure that that model is appropriate to this area as most people are already quite in touch with farming. So the short answer is yes but not sure quite how at the moment. What are your ideas.

Sue, I thought you even chatting with us means you're already a Kaitaia Group member?