More people growing their food resilience in the central city and suburbs.
Creative, fun and interactive events and interventions to enhance our food security.
Everything’s happening in your lunch break.
Come and learn new skills at a workshop, dig in during a working bee, nominate a local grower to celebrate, get some pots for your balcony, ask questions and walk away with veggie seedlings that will grow in Wellington’s climate.
Our Project In Five Parts:
Bicycle Garden
A garden on a bike trailer! This multi-tiered creation will be cruising the streets every week all planted up with veggies, herbs and flowers for people to enjoy, taste, smell and learn from. It will double as a seedling cart you can come and get seedlings for a koha, and an information station all about what’s happening around the city’s urban farms, community gardens and how you can get amongst it.
Lunchtime Workshops
If you’re hungry for the practical knowledge needed to take food resilience into your own hands, come along to an incredible workshop on your lunch break! From worm farming to potato buckets, microgreens to balcony forests, hot topics will be covered and resources shared. Come and gather skills from Wellington’s best growers.
Celebrating Local Growers
Once a month we will be sharing a short interview with someone from the community who is passionate about growing organic food! Wellington is full of amazing people doing wonderful things like setting up home grown fruit and veggie exchange shelves on their front fences, organising seed swaps, transforming their apartment rooftops, or running compost hubs. If you know someone to nominate, please lettuce ;) know.
Demonstration Gardens
The Bond street planter boxes are there for the central city community. You’re invited to join monthly working bees between 11:30am-1:30pm on the first Wednesday of each month. Come and care for them, meet some other keen beans, learn by doing, get bragging rights, and enjoy a break from the office. Stay for as little or as long as you’re able. We will have some sponsored giveaways up for grabs too!
Popup Nurseries
Come and ask questions at our educational nursery event and get some organic seedlings! Hosted four times throughout the year at the Bond Street shipping container. You don’t have to miss out on growing things if you live super centrally. Vegetable, herb and edible flower seedlings will be ready to plant into your pots and plots.
