She has written books on landscape planning, seed saving, and plant heritage and teaches courses and workshops on regenerative agriculture and gardening.
[3] Baxter's childhood was spent moving around the South Island, wherever her schoolteacher father could find work.
[4] A few months later, a local gardener informed her that the only New Zealand heritage seeds you could buy were Pukekohe Long Keeper onions and all the rest came from Holland.
[4] Concerned with the future of New Zealand's heritage plant sustainability, she co-founded the Koanga Institute and spent the last the past 30 years dedicated to building a collection of heritage seeds and fruit trees, first in Northland, then on leased land near Wairoa in Hawke's Bay.
[4] Today the Koanga Institute is a farm, forest garden, centre for permaculture education and home to the collection of heritage New Zealand seeds.