Empower yourself with the practical skills to turn your dreams of self-reliance into your reality. We use the Permaculture design process to design and teach solutions for all aspects of our lives and environment. Our guided tours, workshops, permaculture design courses, internships and apprenticeships are all great ways to create your lifestyle or career path in a regenerative way.
Permaculture Design Course
Workshops for Regenerative Living - Five Day Workshops
Seed Week
23rd to 28th February 2020
Learn everything you need to know to set up your own family, bioregional or national seed bank
Butchery and Meat Processing
24th to 29th May 2020
Learn home butchering skills for small animals: poultry, goats, pigs and sheep
Gardening Masterclass
20th to 25th September 2020
How to garden regeneratively to grow nutrient dense food using the bio intensive method. Comprises Biointensive Gardening and Growing Nutrient Dense Food Workshops
Forest Garden Intensive
27th September to 2nd October 2020
Designing, implementing and managing Forest Gardens. Comprises Forest Garden Design and Forest Garden Management Workshops
Summer Workshop Series
Eating without the supermarket
Thursday 22nd January 2020
Cows and Sheep Can Be Part of the Solution
Thursday 30th January 2020
Short Workshops - One or two days
Grow Your Own Mushrooms
Saturday 9th and Sunday 10th May 2020
Ecological Hunting
Saturday 9th and Sunday 10th May 2020
Introduction to Pruning
Sunday 5th July 2020
On-line workshops
ReGeneration Productions is an online education platform created by Kay Baxter and Vitor Crispim. ReGen has partnered with Koanga to create online courses with videos, databases and webinars to inspire and support us all to be the change we wish to see in the world.
Koanga Gardening Online Masterclass
An opportunity to invest in your education, the health of your whanau and the future of the planet. Includes 5 different courses, and ongoing Garden Management Videos sent to our students at the beginning of every month to support them on their journeys.
Growing Nutrient Dense Food
An inspirational on-line workshop that gives you a step-by-step guide to enable you to grow nutrient dense food, restoring the health of your family and of the earth. 
Regenerative Garden Planning
An on-line workshop teaching a step-by-step planning process to achieve the highest production in the smallest area, in the most efficient way whilst building soil and plant health.
Growing Great Seedlings
An in-depth on-line course on how to grow high-quality seedlings
Growing Great Compost
An on-line workshop showing you how to make compost that is capable of growing Nutrient-Dense food in the most efficient way.
Bed Preparation and Planting
An in-depth course on the Koanga best practice Bed Preparation and Planting. An essential part of the Koanga Gardening Masterclass Series and integrates much of what’s been learned in other courses such as “Garden Planning” “Growing Great Seedlings” and “Growing Great Seedlings”.
Building a Passive Solar Cloche
An on-line workshop detailing how this Passive Solar Cloche was designed and built using appropriate technology and earth building techniques. Includes full design and instructions.
Internships
Internships are opportunities for students who have done Permaculture learning/workshops/courses here at Koanga or elsewhere, to further that learning by gaining practical experience in their field of interest. Find out more here
Guided Tours
