top of page

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.

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

jeff in garden2_edited_edited.jpg

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.

Sign-up for the next workshop via our Events page, or email us at compost@sustainablematamata.org.nz for more information.

Home composting workshops are is sponsored by Sustainable Matamata.

Crop Swap

Crop Swap under way at SSFD 2025.jpg

Meets [fortnightly?] to freely share growing tips and advice, excess home-grown produce, seedlings, flowers and more.

Come along to this friendly meet-up to learn and share from like-minded home gardeners. 

Follow Sustainable Matamata on Facebook or sign-up for our newsletter for details. 

bottom of page