Workshops & Farm Tours

At KoruKai Herb Farm we offer workshops that reconnect you to your primal being and teach you how to grow your own, organic produce, filled with nutrition and love. We help you to create wholesome, nourishing food and bring back health and wellbeing to the home garden and kitchen where it belongs. 


"Let food be your medicine and medicine be your food." Hippocrates

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Organic Gardening with the...
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Organic Gardening with the Soil Food Web 23/24...

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Price $395.00
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Fully Booked! To go onto the waiting list or be informed about future workshops please sign up below.


A deep dive into biological/regenerative farming and gardening for soil health, human health and environmental health.
Over two days we cover the soil food web, nutrient cycling, plant and soil microbiome, making hot compost, managing a worm farm and liquid extracts.

Dates: 23rd and 24th March 2024
Time: 9:30am - 4:30pm on both days
Location: KoruKai Herb Farm, Pigeon Bay, Banks Peninsula

This workshop includes a comprehensive workshop book to take home and a nourishing lunch.


Please find Terms & Conditions as well as our Cancellation Policy here. When signing up for this workshop you automatically agree to them. Please make sure to read them.

ONLINE CLASS: Fermentation,...
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ONLINE CLASS: Fermentation, Microbiome and Gut...

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Price $0.00
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UNAVAILABLE AT THE MOMENT AS WE ARE REWORKING ITS CONTENT. Sign up below to get an email once it is available again.

We are excited to bring our very popular fermentation workshop to your home!

Classes consist of videos, online lectures, step-by-step instructions, recipes and tips and tricks. We will also answer all your questions and help you along the way. You can join anytime and watch the content at your own pace. You get 6 months to view the contents and ask questions in the forum.

Hot Compost Making Workshop...
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Hot Compost Making Workshop 24th March

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Price $129.00
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This is an action packed morning learning how to make a proper hot compost heap. You will be introduced to composting and will learn why things are done a certain way. To deepen this knowledge we will be building a hot compost heap right on the day.

This is part of a 2-day Soil Health Weekend. If you are interested in the full weekend workshop please see more info here.


Date: Sunday, 24th March 2024
Time: 9:30am-1pm
Location: KoruKai Herb Farm, Pigeon Bay, Banks Peninsula


We will provide morning tea and hot herbal tea in the morning.


Please find Terms & Conditions as well as our cancellation policy here. When signing up for this workshop you automatically agree to the Terms & Conditions. Please make sure to read them.

Fermentation, Microbiome and Gut Health...

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Price $149.00
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This is an informative workshop for anyone interested in healthy food. No cooking skills are required. You will walk away with some easy recipes that you can implement in your own kitchen using basic equipment.

Date: Sunday, 21st July 2024
Time: 10am-2:30pm
Location: KoruKai Herb Farm, Pigeon Bay, Banks Peninsula
1 hour from Halswell, Carpooling from Chch is usually possible.


Wholesome lunch included!


Please find Terms & Conditions as well as our cancellation policy here. When signing up for this workshop you automatically agree to the Terms & Conditions. Please make sure to read them.

Online Compost Making Workshop
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Online Compost Making Workshop

Price $145.00
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This amazing class brings together what we have learnt, observed and experienced over the last 10 years of making compost, both on small and medium scale.

We will teach you the classic hot composting method as well as our very own no-turn hot compost, which we developed and refined over the last 10 years.
You will also learn about compost extract with your very own compost.

We have experience in compost making on a 500m2 section in the city as well as on a rural farm, so we can guide you along based on our experience.

Sourdough Bread Baking...
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Sourdough Bread Baking Workshop 14th April

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Price $149.00
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FULLY BOOKED. To go onto the waiting list please sign up below.

Learn how to make artisan sourdough bread successfully at home.
Please note that this workshop uses our rye sourdough starter and wheat, spelt and rye flours in the finished products.
For our gluten-free sourdough workshop please go here.

Date: Sunday, 14th April 2024

Time: 10am - 3pm

Lunch and some afternoon tea is included!

We started our sourdough bread baking journey 13 years ago and now bake a large variety of breads and sweet treats for our family and friends.

You will walk away with a recipe booklet and a free rye sourdough starter (valued at $19.90).

Natural Cheese Making Workshop 23rd November

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Price $159.00
Availability: 4 In Stock

In this workshop you will learn about the art of natural cheese making and will get a good understanding of the philosophies behind it. You will walk away with basic skills to start your own journey of natural cheese making.

Date: Saturday, 23rd November 2024
Time: 10am - 3/3:30pm
Location: KoruKai Herb Farm, Pigeon Bay, Banks Peninsula
1 hour from Halswell, Carpooling from Chch is usually possible.

Accommodation options in Pigeon Bay, surrounding bays and Akaroa

Lunch included!


This workshop if very popular and always sells out. So book early to avoid disappointment. Limited to 8 people.


Please find Terms & Conditions as well as our cancellation policy here. When signing up for this workshop you automatically agree to the Terms & Conditions. Please make sure to read them.

Regenerative Management of a Lifestyle Block...

Price $395.00
Availability: 12 In Stock

You will learn about the foundation of soil health, holistic management and holistic planned grazing, plant diversity, fodder trees, ecological principles, pest and disease management and lots more (see more topics below).


Date: 2nd and 3rd November 2024
Time: 9:30am - 4:30pm on both days
Location: KoruKai Herb Farm, Pigeon Bay, Banks Peninsula

Discount available for a couple living at the same place. Please email [email protected] to sign up.

This workshop includes a comprehensive workshop booklet to take home and a nourishing lunch on both days.

PAYMENT PLANS AVAILABLE. Send us an email and we will work something out together.

Gluten-free Sourdough Bread...
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Gluten-free Sourdough Bread Baking Workshop 3rd...

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Price $149.00
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Fully booked! To go onto the waiting list or be informed for future workshops please sign up below.


Learn how to make gluten-free sourdough bread as well as gluten-free pizza dough and focaccia successfully at home.
To book our regular sourdough workshop please go here.

Date: Saturday, 3rd August 2024

Time: 10am - 3pm

Gluten-free lunch included!

You will walk away with a comprehensive recipe booklet and a free gluten-free sourdough starter.

Please find Terms & Conditions as well as our cancellation policy here. When signing up for this workshop you automatically agree to the Terms & Conditions. Please make sure to read them.

Worm Farming eGuide

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Price $29.90
Availability: 54 In Stock

This amazing guide brings together what we have learnt, observed and experienced over the last 12 years of managing several worm farms to get amazing worm castings for our farm and vegetable gardens.

In this eguide, with well over 65 pages, you will learn how to turn food scraps and farm waste into rich compost and fertiliser to regenerate soil and bring back life force to the below ground livestock - the microbes. This turns on nutrient cycling, grows resilient and healthy plants and increases the water holding capacity of soil - a necessity with droughts and flooding that go hand in hand nowadays.

Healthy soil is the backbone of health - be it environmental, animal, plant or human health. It's our foundation and the solution to a lot of our problems.

Using Medicinal Herbs for...
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Using Medicinal Herbs for Winter Wellbeing

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Price $149.00
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In this workshop you will learn about a range of wild and cultivated medicinal herbs with antiviral and antimicrobial properties to boost immunity for the coming winter months. You will also create a unique herbal winter tea, a foot soak and an inhalation blend.

Because we are overseas this autumn, we are not able to offer this workshop. Will be offered again in autumn 2025.
Time: 10pm - 2:30pm

Location: KoruKai Herb Farm, Pigeon Bay, Banks Peninsula

Please find Terms & Conditions as well as our cancellation policy here. When signing up for this workshop you automatically agree to the Terms & Conditions. Please make sure to read them.

Foraging Tour
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Foraging Tour: Wild Edible and Medicinal Plants

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Price $149.00
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We are restructuring this workshop at the moment and will offer it again in 2024. Sign up below to get updates.


Price includes a delicious, healthy and nourishing lunch, an informative booklet and a healing salve.

Date to be announced.
Time: 10am - 3pm

Location: Pigeon Bay waterfront and KoruKai Herb Farm, Banks Peninsula
1 hour 20 minutes from Halswell, Carpooling from Chch is usually possible.
Accommodation options in Pigeon Bay, surrounding bays and Akaroa


Please find Terms & Conditions as well as our cancellation policy here. When signing up for this workshop you automatically agree to the Terms & Conditions. Please make sure to read them.

Guided Farm Tour
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Farm and Garden Tour

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Price $29.00
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Next Date: to be confirmed
Time: 1-4pm
Place: KoruKai Herb Farm, Pigeon Bay

Children under 12 years can attend for free with adult supervision.
Please let us know if you are bringing children under 12 years.

A guided tour will give you an insight into the work we do here at KoruKai Herb Farm.

It covers aspects of:
Self-sufficiency
Growing nutrient dense food and potent herbs
Permaculture design and forest gardens
Biological/regenerative horticulture
Grazing management to foster soil and plant health

Farm Tour
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Private Farm Tour

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Price $250.00
Availability: Out of stock

Due to time restrictions we are not offering guided farm tours this summer. Tours will be back in December 2024.

Guided farm tour for individuals, couples and groups of up to 20 people. Price is the same for 1 person and for 20 people.

Duration: 1.5 - 2.5 hours.
Either 9:30 - 12pm or 1pm - 3:30pm
Place: KoruKai Herb Farm, Pigeon Bay
Dates: Send a message to [email protected] to arrange a suitable date before making a booking.

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