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Kōanga is holding an annual Potato Festival. Four days of work, fun, eating, learning and sharing.
Tuesday 28th of January to Friday 31st January 2025. 22 adults only. Bookings essential.
Must be able to begin with the team at 8am on Tuesday morning, and stay until Friday lunch time. We will work mornings harvesting potatoes with picnic morning teas, and do other things in the afternoons, and evenings around the fire story-telling etc. Koha entry. Children over 7 more than welcome so long as they don’t stop parents from being involved.
We are looking for people who are passionate about potatoes, and who are fit and active people capable of harvesting potatoes by hand and having fun. We will be harvesting 180m of potatoes in beds.
Bring your own tent and bedding, your potato stories, karakia, and music! We will feed you well (Weston A. Price type food, from our land).
This will be four days of potatoes inside and out, harvesting, stories, potato ‘lore’, tasting and an over indulgence in potato ‘fare’. You will all have a guided tour of the Kōanga forest gardens and seed gardens. You will all go home with a potato from every cultivar we hold (approx 40), and their stories.
