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Feeding the future with fruit trees for schools, community groups and public spaces in Canterbury. It’s no accident that New Zealand has been internationally recognised as the best place to survive a global societal collapse. Along with our geographical benefits, we’re a society of growers and planters. We are keeping that alive and well, having…
I had the pleasure of meeting Michelle for the first time at the Food Resilience Network and Action Bicycle Club collaborative event back in October last year. We cycled to multiple food resilience spots across the city and heard volunteers tell the story of each place…it was a super cool event. That day had I…
Richmond Community Garden is such an inspiring project in our city. There is a dedicated team of volunteers to provide leadership and direction..and the multi-facted approach they are taking is really aspirational for other community led projects. Here are just some of the aspects of the project…drawn from the Richmond Community Garden Annual Report 🙂…
What is ‘Eat Local July’? The journey so far… By Simone Bensdorp ‘Eat Local July’ is a challenge I have set myself to eat only locally grown/produced food for the month of July. Wherever you are in the world you’re welcome to join in, whether it’s for a meal, a day, a week or…
At our Food Talks gathering on April 18th we were lucky enough to be hosted by Antoinette and Jordan @ Happen Films. Antoinette and Jordan create amazing digital content telling the stories of inspirational people around New Zealand and Australia that are striving to make a difference in our world. Happen Films create “Documentary films…
On March 18th Food Talks hosted Severine Von Tscharner Fleming and Wendy McWilliam to share their experience, knowledge and thoughts about how we can hold a relationship with our whenua that invites wellbeing at an ecosystem level, and what change that might invite into our lives. Wendy McWilliam is a landscape ecologist, landscape architect and…