- growing our connection with the marine world.
Wharf Hub for Sea Gardening
Reef Building
Our flagship Sea Gardening Experience
Indigenous Sea Gardens produced bountiful seafood for centuries by focussing on reciprocity and the common good.
See more at www.seagardens.net
Our guided 3 day land based workshop includes the introductory Sea Gardening tour, in depth Power Point presentation, reef module practical skill development and construction, plus all equipment and materials needed, and an evening educational program.
Some choose to stay on a couple more days at the Wharf Hub as volunteers to help with taking casts out of molds, deployment if weather conditions are suitable, and undertake other marine ecological activites. See our page 'Volunteering' for more information.
The Reef Building' retreat workshop also involves the development of a certain mindset that can be caught through a number of experiences we outline on our Ports of Call pages, and by exploring our 'Blogs'. Any equipment required such as mountain bikes, kayaks, fishing rods are also included in the fee.
The 3 day Reef Building intensive can be booked directly from here or through other web listing that show a availability calendar eg bookretreats.com. It includes accommodation at the Wharf Hub, all meals, snacks, tuition and materials required. Cost $2500 per person.
Overnight accommodation at the Wharf Hub is available and included in your fee. It is a shared facilities experience which some see as an opportunity for meeting other similarly minded folk. But we accept this is not to everyone's taste, so staying locally and attending the workshop during the day is quite acceptable. Accommodation adjustment and alternatives can be made in your free quote.
As a precursory, backgrounding exploration of the local Opotiki Community REAF Trust web site is encouraged. (Free) and its Facebook page 'communityreef'(also free).
A Certificate is later issued, crafted with your photo, module photo and deployed reef GPS location.
Fees for this guided three day voyage, including two nights accommodation at the Wharf Hub, (an adjustment can be made for accommodation elsewhere) two breakfasts, three lunches, two dinners, refreshments (alcohol free) are around $2500 per person.
If you would like to stay on after the retreat workshop for a couple of days and help with further practical reef building, then please convey this to us. Although you will be staying for free as our guest we do rely on you to help with catering, some house keeping and any other task that may require attention. Thank you.