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George's Garden

Name: George's Garden
Address: Auckland, NZ
Location: George's Garden

George Street Orchard is the passion project of Rory Harding, who, since 2008, has meticulously transformed a Dunedin backyard into a thriving urban food forest. George St Orchard is an urban food forest in Dunedin, transformed from a backyard into a thriving edible landscape by Rory Harding since 2008

“Great place for fresh vege, especially the George's garden hidden at the back of the market.”

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About

George St Orchard is an urban food forest in Dunedin, transformed from a backyard into a thriving edible landscape by Rory Harding since 2008. They cultivate a diverse range of organic fruits, berries, and vegetables, including unique varieties like blood peaches, haskap berries, and 'Hereweka' figs, and also propagate and sell edible plants. Rory employs sustainable no-till, compost-based, food forest principles, meticulously utilizing microclimates to grow a wide array of produce.

Their Story

George Street Orchard is the passion project of Rory Harding, who, since 2008, has meticulously transformed a Dunedin backyard into a thriving urban food forest. This edible landscape is a testament to sustainable practices, employing no-till, compost-based, and food forest principles. Rory's…

What They Make

Fruits & Berries: Grapes (Niagara, Schuyler, Iona), Blood peaches, Golden raspberries, Haskap berries (honeyberry), Goumi berries, Figs ('Hereweka'), Yacon, Japanese ginger, European plums, Mid-season apples, Pears, Blackberries, Feijoas (Kaiteri, Kākāriki, Tagan, Anatoki, Unique)
Vegetables: Rocoto Manzano chillis, Asparagus
Edible Plants for Sale: Blood peach seedlings, Rocoto Manzano chillis (half-hardy perennial), Golden raspberry, Haskap berry, Grapes (Niagara, Iona, Schuyler), Asparagus, Goumi berry, Fig ‘Hereweka’, Yacon, Japanese ginger, Raspberry
Ornamental/Perennial Plants for Sale: Sanguisorba menziesii, Salvia nemorosa ‘Violet Queen’, Calamagrostis brachytricha (deciduous clumping grass), Microlaena avenacea (bush rice grass, NZ native bunching grass), Agastache, Eryngium, Echinacea, Helenium ‘Red Shades’, Helictotrichon sempervirens, Digitalis ferruginea, Verbascum blattaria f.albiflorum, Phlomis tuberosa, Phlomis russeliana, Eupatorium cannabinum, Liatris spicata, Echinacea pallida, Calamgrostis x acutiflora ‘Karl Foerster’, Stipa gigantea, Persicaria amplexicaulis, Cota tinctoria, Eryngium planum, Achillea millefolium, Cytisus proliferus (Tree lucerne), Hellebores, Assorted succulents

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How to Get Their Products

In-person pickup for plant sales; farm visits and tours by appointment or during scheduled open days.