Sustainable Taranaki and Waitara Food Bank are excited to offer two practical workshops for building community-scale food security. Please get in touch to book as space is limited.

We will also host another workshop focusing on Organisations on Tuesday 12 March (9am - 4:30pm) at the Waitara Lions Trust Hall. Get in touch with us if you would like to attend.

Contact: Joe Turton, info@sustainabletaranaki.org.nz, Ph 027 360 7781, www.sustainabletaranaki.org.nz

Date: Saturday 9th March, 9am-4:30pm: 

Location: Education Room, Resource Recovery Facility, Colson Rd, Glen Avon (the big building behind the Junction Reuse Shop)

Open to: Everyone (especially those interested in community gardens)

Topics: Starting and sustaining a successful Community Garden,  Growing for Climate Change, Ensuring seed security, Creating a local wild harvest Seasonal Calendar, Strengthening our local food economy. 

Lunch: Pot luck - bring food to share

Cost: Free

Workshop Facilitator: Robina McCurdy - Earthcare Education Aotearoa (NZ)

Robina has been engaged in community development, organic growing, permaculture design and tutoring on a global scale for the past 30 years. She is the founder of the Institute of Earthcare Education Aotearoa, co-founder of Tui Land Trust & Community in Golden Bay, NZ and pioneer of the S.E.E.D (Schools Environmental Education & Development) programme in South Africa and Brazil. She has developed a range of environmental education resources and participatory processes for collective decision-making and action – most notably ‘Grounding Vision, Empowering Culture’, a community facilitation manual, and ‘Grow It!’, a Home Garden coaching series. Robina has taught & applied her powerful community-building methods with households, neighborhoods, schools, farms, ecovillages & bioregions, in Aotearoa/New Zealand and many countries overseas.

Over the past few years she worked as the designer & co-ordinator of the Victory Community Health Gardens in Nelson and a permaculture educator with Project Lyttelton’s ‘Harbour Basin Food Resilience’ project in Christchurch. Since spring 2012, she has spent most of her time in a voluntary capacity, creating, directing and managing Earthcare’s ‘Localising Food’ project.

Possible thanks to the support of NPDC and the TOI Foundation.