Engine Bay Garden Welcome Day

Come along for a special Open Day with a Guest Speaker, a chance to
explore, connect and see what’s growing in your community! Step into a space where sustainability and creativity grow side by side!

Join a short tour and get inspired by Dan talking about Food Forest:

  • 10:30 Compost hub tour
  • 11:00 Regenerative garden tour and food forest volunteering opportunities
  • 11:30 Food Forest Talk with Dan Kelly
    Discover how climate-friendly food forests—rooted in traditional European and indigenous practices—can transform urban communities.
  • 12:30 Regenerative garden tour and food forest volunteering opportunities
  • 01:00 Compost hub tour

View the Soil Spirit mural by local artist Robbi Carvalho as part of the ArtPoint Art Trail at your leisure.

EVERYONE WELCOME!

Cost: FREE
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About Dan Kelly, our guest speaker

A Wellington-born Pākehā of distant Irish extraction, Dan Kelly runs a food forest consultancy called Community Forestry Ltd. He is a papa of two, a doctoral candidate at the University of Auckland exploring the transformative potential of urban-grown food, and the kaiawhina for the syntropic food forest at Papatūānuku Kōkiri Marae.

Check out a story about how Dan 'From bare clay to urban food forest, could ancient gardening style mean hope for humanity?'