Antoinette is a teacher within the landscape and Horticulture departments at Wintec. She has been teaching in this field for 9 years, and practising horticulture and landscape design for about 30 years in varying positions and locations around the world.

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Education and Credentials:

Antoinette studied at Lincoln College gaining a Diploma in Horticulture (1982), then went on the complete a Diploma in Parks and Garden Technology (1987), also from Lincoln.

In 1997 she completed her Degree in Social Science from Canterbury and Waikato University.

Notable Achievements

Antoinette also holds a Permaculture Design Certificate and teaches on the modular permaculture course offered in Hamilton.

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To support her teaching Antoinette has completed the Certificate in Adult and Tertiary Education, and is currently undertaking a course in Maori Language and Tikanga, Te Tauihu.

Antoinette has published a paper on the Indigenous Ecosystems of Hamilton City (Wintec) and written one article for the Friends of the Hamilton Gardens on ‘Where to begin in designing a garden’ (2016)

Antoinette is currently fully engaged in teaching, continually searching out creative methods of teaching, and keeping current with design processes and outcomes. She has travelled to Japan as part of a teaching tour of Japanese Gardens and Culture