Now Is The Time to Establish or refurbish Your Orchard Herbal Ley Now that we have had our April rain and the ground is moist and warm, it is the key hole to get your herbal ley established or refurbished.

We are working our way through our orchard area where we planted our own herbal ley and taking out any large noxious grass clumps and other weeds that are unwelcome. Once we spade them out, there will be patches of bare dirt, where we will replant herbal ley seed or spring bulbs or comfrey etc. It is also time to apply your Autumn fruit tree fertilizer. We are using 1 kg of Nature’s Garden per young tree on the ground around the drip line of the trees.

We are offering to pay you for your Goldmine Nectarine Stones, Blackboy Peach Stones, and stones of all other Koanga Peach, Nectarine, and Apricot varieties or any other special old trees that you may know of! 

Please contact us if you have stones!!! 

Every where I go, but especially in Northland where the soils are heavy, I have people coming up to me to tell me about their Koanga Gardens fruit trees. Quite often people say that some have done well, others not. Obviously everybody wants all their trees to do well and so they want to know why they aren’t.
Often I go and look at them, and the reasons for trees not doing well are always the same.

I always want to say, if you treated your children like this what would you expect to happen!

Kay Baxter began collecting heritage fruit trees in 1984, after being inspired by Bill Mollison during an Orchard Design workshop he was teaching.
 It has been a long and passionate journey with much learned along the way.