Donating Plant Material
The Koanga Institute collection has come from individuals who have donated plant material to us, which we then propagate to make it more widely available again . If you have some special old seeds, or some old fruit trees which you'd like to donate to the Institute collection, please read the documents provided and fill out the forms for us. This information is vital, we really appreciate your help with this.
Collecting Plant Material for Koanga (PDF).
Please send the form to us:
Koanga Institute
96 Kotare Road
RD 5 Wairoa
4195
or email it to Nicki at the Koanga Office.
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NZ Heritage Potatoes in Danger!
Updates on our potato trial can be found here.
In the Spring of 2011, we launched a comprehensive Potato Program to save our NZ heritage potatoes. Read Full Article Here.... We asked for 50 people to sponsor a potato each to enable this trial to go ahead. Thank you to all those who sponsored spuds ... our thank you list is here.
2011-12 Koanga Gardens Catalogue, is out now! Full colour edition with photographs and details of all the Koanga Gardens range seeds. Koanga Institute NZ Members receive a Free Copy with their Insititute catalogue in the post - make sure your subscription is valid to ensure you get your copy!!