5 common mistakes you might be making with your compost!

You can easily grow your own veggies in Taranaki! Here are 10 tips from our expert!

Grow your understanding of sustainable food production, harvesting and preserving through tours, workshops and events!

Crooked Vege Ōtaki is launching a market garden with a simple but radical kaupapa. Their mission is to improve access to locally grown, sustainable kai using regenerative growing techniques.

Stuff met with Alice, our South Taranaki Community Garden Coordinator! Learn more about her great mahi in Hāwera!

One year old! Earlier this month the St Mary’s Community Garden celebrated its 1st year… Read about this success story!

Marfell Community School students show leadership in closing the loop, making their in-school lunches zero waste.

The Marfell Community Garden is taking shape with the support of people who believe in food sovereignty and growing genuine human relationships.

Change starts in your own backyard! From 28 Oct to 6 Nov come and learn about sustainable backyards!

Bena Denton-Woolley shares with us some areas to focus on to ensure you have a pumping and healthy veggie garden…

A series of events saw Tawhiti School and Hāwera High School students prepare the land for raised planter gardens. Pupils also had the opportunity to contribute their ideas for the garden plan…

Lillian Hall is as resourceful as it gets – even her chicken feed sacks don’t go to waste…

Waitara High School has been leading the way with sustainable practices and initiatives and the students are benefiting from the collective energies of a number of school staff…

Bayly Terraces is a work in progress! Situated alongside a community orchard, this garden is a haven for bees, birds, and people…

Since its first hui in November, the Marfell Community Garden has made considerable progress and has brought together neighbors near and far to help develop the space. With 24 fully planted rows of vegetables, a kumara patch, corn clusters, teepees of runner beans and sunflowers as well as a perimeter of native trees…

How can we come together to address food security?

This was the main question that guided our actions in organising and promoting our Food Resilience Talks event on Thursday, 3rd of December. Given the importance of this topic and its growing relevance in the post-Covid context across Taranaki and Aotearoa, Sustainable Taranaki is now involved in the facilitation process to co-create a food secure communities plan for our region.

What is food resilience and how can we address the challenges that it implies? The conversation around food resilience in Taranaki is getting more relevant every time, as more and more actors, those who wish to enact positive change, start to engage in ways to secure our access to healthy, nutritious and affordable kai.

During this period of uncertainty, people are starting to wonder where their food comes from, along with how to support their whānau. A very high percentage of the fresh fruit and vegetables available in the supermarkets come from overseas and can be at risk of undersupply. So how can we as a community remain resilient in these challenging and unpredictable times?

Food event specialist, market gardener and garden-to-table cook, Maria Lempriere has used her past experiences as well as her passion for food and sustainability to develop an inspiring business model.

Darlene Gibson lives in Lepperton. In 2016 she and her family purchased 1.7 acres of fence-free land and a self-care house with shrubbery gardens. Thank you, Darlene for sharing your story with us!