Community Gardens
Saint Columba – Community Garden
St Columba Anglican Church and community Centre in Grey Lynn shares its beautiful facilities and grounds with the community. Since June 2017, St Columba has provided a hot lunch every Friday for people from the local community. Food is donated, supported by volunteers. The free meals are supplemented by Food rescue sources such as Kiwi…
Read MoreWilton Street Community Garden – March 2015
The joy of the end of summer is the abundant crop of figs that the Wilton St. Community Garden has provided. Fat from earlier rains and sweet from the later sunshine, both birds and gardeners have shared in the crop. Likewise the tomatoes benefited from the conditions, added to which our rich nitrate compost…
Read MoreWilton St Community Garden: End of an Era
A very special era has come to an end with the closure of Wilton Street Community Garden. Sarah Guppy who took over coordinating the garden from founder Mandy McMillan writes about why the time has come to close the garden down. For over five years the Wilton Street Community garden transformed a piece of land…
Read MoreCommunity Gardens News 2013
As Ponsonby News hits our mailboxes in July the Matariki star cluster is high in the sky and we are half way through a month-long celebration marking the beginning of the new year in Maori culture. Also known as Pleiades or The Seven Sisters, Matariki coincides with the winter solstice in the southern hemisphere.…
Read MoreGrey Lynn Community Garden
Grey Lynn Community Gardens are hidden in the grounds of St Columba Church behind the community centre. We are a small, co-operative group of dedicated gardeners with an emphasis on edibles. The gardens are wholly organic with no artificial sprays or fertilisers used. We compost, have worm farms and seed save from season to season. Excess produce is given to the…
Read MoreWilton Street Community Garden – Come Garden!
Our devoted team of gardens, who meet most Sundays are looking for new willing people to join in the community spirit of working, planting, planning and eating the goodness from this wonderful small garden in central Grey Lynn. If you are interested please join us next Sunday, or email goldensguppy@gmail.com
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