Building engagement and empowerment
Today I visited Shannon first who is very easy to work with. She has gardened before by just digging up some of her lawn, but never had any tools, a raised garden or really good soil. Her dog had been a pain pooing wherever she gardened, so we are exploring options to keep him out. …
My first visit of the day was Rose's planting. Her garden was set up a few weeks ago but with whanau commitments and covid out of the way I could finally come in to plant. She had a 9 and 10 year old there whom she had whangaied when they were babies and she is …
Seven visits planned for today but already had one postponed first thing. First up *Ailana and *Makamae, who came through Kesi and live almost opposite each other. Both have quite a bit growing wild and untended, which is a great way to garden in my opinion. At this point mostly taro and kūmara, from which …
My first call is Rose who is just lovely and very keen to learn as much as I can show her. They have a huge section and have been there almost 60 years! Lots of invasive weed issues from neighbouring properties. I was able to identify most of these and we talked about handling ones like …
As we move from the Aōtearoa Kai Journey project to our new Kai Sovereignty project we are excited to be able to provide more gardens and chickens to whānau in need in the local community. Together, partnering with Whenua Warrior, who supply the garden beds and soil, along with The Patchwork Gardens, with hands on …
Love Food Hate Waste is a series of workshops we will be running to teach others how to change habits around food waste and upskill with our budgeting, preparing kai and how to make food last further on a budget. Some topics we hope to cover in these workshops are: meal planning and kai that …
It all started with The Kai Collective Project which was a collective of community groups and leaders that came together to respond to the COVID-19 crisis, creating a Food Hub that provided local groups and community leaders with food that they then distributed directly to whānau in need in our community. From here we learned …
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