Upcoming Events
Composting Workshop
A hands-on, soil-loving afternoon exploring the principles of composting and discovering different methods you can use at home. We’ll take you on a tour of the composting systems here at the SLC, including our on-site worm farm, three-bin system, council bins, bokashi buckets, and the community compost.
You’ll learn how each method works, the pros and cons, and tips for getting the best results.
Whether you’re new to composting or looking to expand your skills, this session will give you the know-how and inspiration to turn food scraps into garden gold.
Spring Green Foraging Workshop
Discover the wild food growing right under your feet. Join us for a guided walk through the gardens at the SLC and beyond, where we’ll identify common edible weeds and explore their health benefits. Spring is a powerful time for these plants—many act as natural cleansers and tonics, supporting our bodies after the winter months. You’ll learn how to recognise, harvest, and use these herbs safely, along with tips for incorporating them into your meals or herbal remedies.
Come prepared for gentle walking, curiosity, and a fresh look at the “weeds” you might never see the same way again.
Syntropic Agroforestry Workshop
Learn the principles behind syntropic agroforestry—a regenerative growing method that works with natural succession to create abundant, resilient food systems. This workshop combines theory with hands-on practice as we maintain and develop the syntropic system here at the SLC.
You’ll gain an understanding of how syntropics mimic natural forest growth, support soil health, and increase biodiversity, and you’ll have the chance to put these ideas into action right here on site. Perfect for gardeners, growers, and anyone curious about future-friendly farming.
Planning Your Summer Garden Workshop
Settle in with a cup of tea and join Sol for an afternoon of practical gardening wisdom. You’ll learn how to use succession planting and adjusted planting times to get the most from your garden spaces year-round.
The first part of the session (1.5 hours) will cover the theory—how to plan, rotate, and stagger crops for continual harvests. In the second half, you’ll take part in a hands-on workshop where you can trial ideas, sketch out your own planting plans, and get direct feedback from Sol.
Whether you’re a beginner or a seasoned grower, you’ll leave with tools and inspiration to make your garden more productive and resilient.
Build A Solar Shower/Cooker Workshop
A hands-on workshop where you’ll learn how to harness the power of the sun to create simple, practical tools for everyday living. Together, we’ll explore the principles of solar energy and guide you through making your own solar shower and solar cooker.
You’ll leave with practical skills, an understanding of how solar heating works, and the confidence to build your own low-cost, renewable energy solutions at home.
Community Seed Swap & Meet-Up
Community Seed Swap & Meet-Up
Come along for a friendly and inspiring day of seed swapping, sharing, and connection! Bring your home-saved seeds (and a dish to share for lunch) and join others who are passionate about growing food and saving seed in Golden Bay.
This gathering is about strengthening our local seed sovereignty and building relationships across our community. Whether you're a seasoned seed saver or just starting out, it's a chance to exchange seeds, stories, tips, and wisdom.
Let’s grow our resilience together — one seed at a time.
Hope to see you there!
Virginia & Sol
Lacto-Fermenting Workshop
Join us for a hands-on introduction to the delicious and nourishing world of lacto-fermentation!
Learn how to make kraut variations, kimchi, sourdough pancakes, dairy kefir, kefir cheese, and kombucha. You'll leave with new skills and confidence to continue fermenting in your own kitchen and nourishing yourself and your family.
This workshop is offered by passionate foodie and kitchen alchemist, Virginia Holland, who has been learning, playing and perfecting her at-home lacto-fermenting for over 15 years.
Fruit Tree Pruning Workshop
Come and learn the art of fruit tree pruning to support the long-term health, shape, and productivity of your trees!
Guided by horticulturist and local gardening expert Sol Morgan, this practical, hands-on workshop will give you the skills and confidence to care for your fruit trees for years to come.
Earth Building & Lime Plastering Workshop
Dive into the world of natural building with this hands-on workshop focused on earth building and lime plastering techniques.
Learn about working with cob, light earth, and creative natural finishes. We'll explore how to apply lime plaster to protect outdoor earth-built structures from the elements, helping them stand strong and beautiful through the seasons.
Perfect for anyone curious about sustainable building and creative, resilient design.
Seed Saving Workshop & Exchange
Come and learn all about seed saving for food resilience, community sufficiency, and the protection of plant diversity. Learn how to successfully process and save seeds from your own vegetables, herbs, and flowers - and why it matters now more than ever.
The Inside Job Mindfulness & Mental Wellbeing Workshop - Session 3
Explore the power of your inner world in this 3-part workshop series, The Inside Job.
In each one-hour session, we’ll gently explore how our thoughts and feelings shape our experience of life. With simple, practical tools, we’ll learn to better understand ourselves and guide our minds in a more positive, grounded direction. In this first session we will explore thoughts and our busy minds, in the second session we will focus on feelings and the heart, and in our third session we will integrate and bring everything together.
This is for anyone seeking more clarity, calm, and inner resilience.
Gardens & Creative Infrastructure Tour
Come along for an inspiring tour of Golden Bay properties that show how locals are creatively designing their homes, gardens, and infrastructure to support sustainable livelihoods and lifestyles.
Explore how spaces can be thoughtfully shaped to weave together home businesses, private living, and nature - from gardens and orchards to meditation spaces, walking paths, spa areas, and more.
This tour offers real-life inspiration for creating multifunctional, beautiful environments that nourish both work and life.
Guided by Sol Morgan
Creative Connection Through Nature Art Workshop
Join us for an afternoon of connection with nature, our personal creativity, and each other. This workshop invites you to slow down, explore your relationship with the natural world, and express yourself through intuitive and playful creative processes.
We'll move through guided activities including reflective partner sharing, a mindful outdoor walk, meditation and intuitive drawing, and the creation of a personal piece of nature art using found materials.
This is a relaxed, welcoming space to reconnect with yourself, each other, and the Earth - no artistic experience needed, just an open mind and a human heart.
Repair Café
Many everyday items are so much easier to fix than we tend to think. Instead of putting it in the too-hard-basket or in the trash, bring it along to a Repair Cafe.
Our friendly volunteer handy-people will help bring your broken or malfunctioning items back to life, and offer some training on how to do these repairs yourself!
Come and enjoy the satisfaction and empowerment of DIY repairing. Choosing to repair your items instead of throwing them out helps to reduce waste, make better use of resources, and foster a growing culture of repair in Āotearoa.
The Inside Job Mindfulness & Mental Wellbeing Workshop - Session 2
Explore the power of your inner world in this 3-part workshop series, The Inside Job.
In each one-hour session, we’ll gently explore how our thoughts and feelings shape our experience of life. With simple, practical tools, we’ll learn to better understand ourselves and guide our minds in a more positive, grounded direction. In this first session we will explore thoughts and our busy minds, in the second session we will focus on feelings and the heart, and in our third session we will integrate and bring everything together.
This is for anyone seeking more clarity, calm, and inner resilience.
When: Sunday 11th May, 10am - 11am
Where: Sustainable Living Centre
Contribution: any amount from $5+
Register for this workshop here
OR email events@gbslc.org
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Lacto-Fermenting Workshop
Join us for a hands-on introduction to the delicious and nourishing world of lacto-fermentation!
Learn how to make kraut variations, kimchi, sourdough pancakes, dairy kefir, kefir cheese, and kombucha. You'll leave with new skills and confidence to continue fermenting in your own kitchen and nourishing yourself and your family.
This workshop is offered by passionate foodie and kitchen alchemist, Virginia Holland, who has been learning, playing and perfecting her at-home lacto-fermenting for over 15 years.
Composting Workshop
Learn how to turn your green waste into fertile soil with composting! The afternoon will include learning all about composting both theoretically and practically. Lead by experienced horticulturalist & composting wizard, Sol Morgan
The Inside Job Mindfulness & Mental Wellbeing Workshop Series - Session 1
Explore the power of your inner world in this 3-part workshop series, The Inside Job.
In each one-hour session, we’ll gently explore how our thoughts and feelings shape our experience of life. With simple, practical tools, we’ll learn to better understand ourselves and guide our minds in a more positive, grounded direction. In this first session we will explore thoughts and our busy minds, in the second session we will focus on feelings and the heart, and in our third session we will integrate and bring everything together.
WaDaDa Circle Drumming
WaDaDa – Circle Drumming with Alanjahjah
Every Tuesday afternoon in the Makerspace
Join us each Tuesday afternoon for an uplifting community gathering of rhythm and connection through drumming.
Whether you're a seasoned drummer, complete beginner, or simply wish to listen and sway along, all are welcome. This is a space for expression, grounding, and coming together in sound and spirit.
What to bring:
Please bring a drum or shaker if you have one. If not, you can contact Galanjah de Boeck via Facebook to arrange to borrow an instrument.
Koha appreciated
Donations towards space holding and facilitation are gratefully received.
Growing Together Thursday
Growing Together Thursdays are an invitation for you to come and join the team on the ground, with an emphasis on building relationship with each other as well as the whenua that we are looking after. You're welcome to join any time between 10am and 2pm, and there will be shared kai around midday. Tamariki are most welcome, and our tasks will be reflective of both what the whenua calls for and our own capabilities.
WaDaDa Circle Drumming
WaDaDa – Circle Drumming with Alanjahjah
Every Tuesday afternoon in the Makerspace
Join us each Tuesday afternoon for an uplifting community gathering of rhythm and connection through drumming.
Whether you're a seasoned drummer, complete beginner, or simply wish to listen and sway along, all are welcome. This is a space for expression, grounding, and coming together in sound and spirit.
What to bring:
Please bring a drum or shaker if you have one. If not, you can contact Galanjah de Boeck via Facebook to arrange to borrow an instrument.
Koha appreciated
Donations towards space holding and facilitation are gratefully received.
Growing Together Thursday
Growing Together Thursdays are an invitation for you to come and join the team on the ground, with an emphasis on building relationship with each other as well as the whenua that we are looking after. You're welcome to join any time between 10am and 2pm, and there will be shared kai around midday. Tamariki are most welcome, and our tasks will be reflective of both what the whenua calls for and our own capabilities.
WaDaDa Circle Drumming
WaDaDa – Circle Drumming with Alanjahjah
Every Tuesday afternoon in the Makerspace
Join us each Tuesday afternoon for an uplifting community gathering of rhythm and connection through drumming.
Whether you're a seasoned drummer, complete beginner, or simply wish to listen and sway along, all are welcome. This is a space for expression, grounding, and coming together in sound and spirit.
What to bring:
Please bring a drum or shaker if you have one. If not, you can contact Galanjah de Boeck via Facebook to arrange to borrow an instrument.
Koha appreciated
Donations towards space holding and facilitation are gratefully received.
The People’s Pantry
The People’s Pantry
Join us for a hands-on community preserving event where we transform surplus local produce into delicious, long-lasting goods. This is a chance to learn valuable food processing skills, connect with others, and take home a share of what we make together.
The preserved goods will be shared equally between:
The Makers
The Growers
Mohua Social Services Foodbank
This initiative is part of the Mohua Kai Resilience Project—supporting local food security through knowledge-sharing and community collaboration.