Bee Awesome is a free educational programme for schools and community groups. Learn about Bees from building a hive, rearing a queen, to harvesting honey. We’re a social enterprise passionate about bees and the environment. We want to teach the tamariki of Waitaha about the importance of biodiversity/ He rerenga rauropi, food security/ He kai…
We are a collaborative force in Christchurch and Nelson with a passion for permaculture design, edible landscape and community based learning. We are publishing The Germinate Workbook – a growing guide for beginner gardeners and facilitators. Available after the launch, 4th of March 2022. Check back here for a link to the book! The founders,…
The Christchurch City Council is developing Christchurch’s former residential red zones and encouraging people to visit and use these special areas. Their projects include the Ōtākaro Avon River Corridor; the largest red-zone regeneration zone, which encourages rest, play, exploration, and learning.
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…
School Gardening Hui’s are so much fun 🙂 There is no better place to come together than at New Brighton Community Garden!! On Tuesday 26th March we invited preschool, primary and secondary school educators and people from within the food resilience space to come together to share time, kai and knowledge. We had held a…
Here at The Addington Farm we are all about three things: produce, place and people. Produce: At our farm we grow veges. Nutrient rich and locally grown produce is the key to a healthy city. Not only are locally grown vegetables tasty and nutritious, they’re also friendlier to our environment than imported or long hauled…
We are a community centre with an established community garden, a Menz shed, a community shed and a community house. The gardens are looked after by a co-ordinator and a diverse group of volunteers of all ages and abilities. The gardens have fruit trees, herb gardens and shared communal vegetable beds and individual allotment gardens…
In February we gathered again, this time for our first official Food Talks event, around the idea of Permaculture. We were lucky enough to have Hamish Duff (Educator, Futurist and Food Resilience Network Committee member) join us to tell us the story of the continuing journey to create a permaculture system on the land that…
We sell healthy food! Organic, local, bulk fill your own… we do what we can to provide the best options available! Always striving to support small suppliers, and our customers too. We are a low profit charitable trust and we make donations to community ventures. Buying your groceries at Piko has a wider impact!
We deliver weekly fresh, local and organic food boxes to your door, or workplace and pay fair prices to small-scale farmers. Our mission is to put local small-scale sustainable farming back at the heart of the food system we all depend on. Buying food from our local growers and communities encourages a healthy, seasonal diet,…