Project Gro 2015 – COMMUNITY GARDEN – OPUNAKE HIGH SCHOOL
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Project Gro 2015 – COMMUNITY GARDEN – OPUNAKE HIGH SCHOOL

Thanks to the generous donations of Soil & Health members and supporters, the Project Gro fund has helped organic gardens in schools and communities around New Zealand. Our project is based in Opunake, Taranaki. Project Gro funds have meant we have been able to reinvigorate the community garden on Opunake High School land that was…

Project Gro 2015 – TERRACE END PLAYCENTRE – PALMERSTON NORTH
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Project Gro 2015 – TERRACE END PLAYCENTRE – PALMERSTON NORTH

Below are some photos of our Tamariki (children) and Larina planting our new fruit trees and some peas. We already had a Lemon tree but through Project Gro we have since been able to purchase a dual Apple tree, Grape and Passion Fruit vines, Guava, Loquat and Manderin tree which we all look forward to…

Project Gro 2015 – TEN ORGANIC FOOD GARDENS – TARANAKI
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Project Gro 2015 – TEN ORGANIC FOOD GARDENS – TARANAKI

In the past few years we have been working with whanau in Taranaki to establish Maara Kai at schools, Kohanga reo, marae and community gardens. Working closely with Hive Taranaki a local education provider for sustainability taught us that gardens are only as sustainable as the people working in them. The need for a mentoring…

Project Gro 2015 – BANK STREET COMMUNITY GARDEN, WHANGAREI
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Project Gro 2015 – BANK STREET COMMUNITY GARDEN, WHANGAREI

Soil & Health’s Project Gro funding enabled us to hook up a rainwater collection system to water the garden. We have turned a derelict block into a functioning garden, supplying food for us as well as for insects and the odd pukeko who likes to spread our nicely piled up compost around the garden. We…

Project Gro 2015 – ST JOSEPH’S CATHOLIC SCHOOL IN RANGIORA
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Project Gro 2015 – ST JOSEPH’S CATHOLIC SCHOOL IN RANGIORA

Our project was to erect six raised-bed planter boxes in the school grounds. Students had shown a keen interest in gardening and had a vegetable plot for several years in the backyard of the presbytery next door to the school. This worked well but was not ideal; it was difficult to supervise groups of students…