Honey Futures ~

1. Old Sheep-shearing shed Yoga and life-drawing space.

2. The Honey Pot 3. Manuka regeneration forest ( Stage areas for planting) 4. Book Library (w/ Fun and wholesome things:) 5. Rotating Kitchen & Garden

Situated 15minutes walk away from the village centre of Matakana. The existing landowner is looking into options for a public-private partnership in leasing the land for community use.

There is an existing sheep shearing shed that is currently not in operation and an opportunity to retrofit this space for a yoga and life drawing studio.

The land-owner is still looking to keep a significant portion of land for livestock while seeking viable options to do with reforesting 100hectares of the land for honey production and erosion control.

Currently my studio has developed ideas to program in activities and bring more opportunities for the local community and benefits for tourism and our environment.

Such programming includes a rotating kitchen restaurant extending into an experiential garden in learning about growing food from the farm to table philosophies and depositing food waste for collection to enrich soils through methods like hot-composting.

Other program activities include a Book Library and a healing & medicine garden.

Retro-fitting a sheep shed

Life Drawing classes run outdoors and inside. Bushy manuka window views and door openings to shed renovation.

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Sun-soaked shed space for Yoga classes and meditation.

Views out to Manuka valley and projection movie screenings inside and outdoors.

Drawing Honey production area for the bee-hivers.

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Foresting Manuka regeneration

Bush honey, reforesting diagram showing relationship with honey production.

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25-30 year rotation period for managing and growing manuka honey. Acting as erosion control and a food-source production (Approx. 100 hectares to claim carbon credits).

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An appointment-run Book Library.

Outdoor NZ fauna sculptures in articulation with the medicine garden.

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Rotating kitchen, seasonally run to take-over the restaurant space . Sun-filtered shed views and local use of the kitchen and medicine garden produce.

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Education garden about growing food based on farm to table philosophy. Food forest design workshop for pre-kitchen garden planting

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Education garden about growing food based on farm to table philosophy hot composting workshop activity.

A natural place

Catching a flood of sunlight

To fill our bellies.

Keep Things Simple.