Taste Nature owners Clinton Chambers and Rodney McDonald welcomed people into their garden for an intimate foraging and cooking experience as a part of the Wild Dunedin New Zealand Festival of Nature.
Visitors had the opportunity to go foraging with experienced New Zealand forager Peter Langlands and plant-based chef Tracey Bennett.
Mr Chambers said one of the main themes for Taste Nature was food provenance which included raising awareness and educating people about where their food comes from and where they could possibly grow their own.
The pair began planting vegetables at their Mt Cargill property about 15 years ago.
Over the years, they had converted gorse-covered land into a bountiful garden that supplied produce for their organic supermarket and cafe.
He said Mr Langlands was showing the visitors some practical skills on how to forage sharing knowledge about how versatile plants were.
Having a backyard garden was possible for most people, even those who lived in urban properties.
"A lot of the plants that we have, many urban properties have them in their backyard.
"While we're on quite a large scale there are pieces of what we do that people would definitely apply to their own homes and to their own backyard garden.
"I think it's very accessible and doable. It just takes effort and time."
