Banana Growing Course

Location : Matapouri, Whangarei 

Sunday ​10am - 5pm
$190 (incl. GST)
Lunch Provided 

Please note:  due to COVID 19 we will not be holding as many courses this year. Please register your interest to any of the courses above and we will get back to you for when we have a space available. ​

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Klaus Lotz
Tutor

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Frida Keegan
​Course Co-ordinator, Assistant Teacher

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This is a comprehensive workshop aimed to bring awareness to NZ's
banana growing potential and to meet the growing consumer demand
for local organic bananas.
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Whether you want to learn how to grow an abundance of bananas in your backyard, incorporate bananas into your food forest design or gear banana production for local markets, we have the knowledge and over 30 years of experience to help you achieve your goals. ​
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Course Content:

• Banana pup propagation​
• Identification of a healthy and weak pups
• Management of a banana clump
• Frost, wind, water and drought management 
• Disease identification & prevention
• Harvesting
• Nutritional value & how to cook banana flowers & fruit
• How to incorporate bananas into your food forest design
• Bananas in syntropy
• Bananas and holistic grazing

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Learn all this amongst a fully grown, 14yr old subtropical food forest
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​Please contact us below to register your interest in the course