Home Grown
Matamata-Piako soil is renowned for great growing. Whether you have 1m or 1ha to work with, our community is filled with keen home food growers ready to share how to make it work for you.
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Follow our blog for local insights, attend a Crop Swap, or sign-up for a home composting workshop to make the most of this special part of Aotearoa.
Composting Workshops
Hosted by our friends at the Potager Garden (Firth Tower, Matamata), join local composting expert, Jeff Johnson, for an information-packed workshop to learn all about how to compost your organic waste and use it in your home garden. It's a great example of circularity at home.
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Sign-up for the next workshop via our Events page, or email us at compost@sustainablematamata.org.nz for more information.
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Home composting workshops are sponsored by Sustainable Matamata.
Crop Swap
Matamata chapter of the national Crop Swap network.
We meet on the 1st and 3rd Sunday of every month at 2pm to freely share growing tips and advice, excess home-grown produce, seedlings, flowers and more.
Bring along things you have grown or made to share with others at this friendly meet-up of like-minded backyard gardeners.
​Examples of what people have brought along: fruit, veges, seedlings, seeds, pinecones, preserves, egg cartons, eggs, empty jars.
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Follow Crop Swap Matamata on Facebook or sign-up for our newsletter for details.
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