Waitati Edible Gardens

For membership and events, contact: Lucy Jack 4821773 or waitati.edible.gardeners@gmail.com

Mission statement
The Waitati Edible Gardeners are a group dedicated to addressing the challenges of post peak oil and climate change by strengthening our community in the immediate future through food production, with emphasis on domestic-scale growing.

Aim
We aim to empower local people from the grass roots up to establish local food sovereignty or semi-autonomous food production.

Tool box
We use:
 * community networking
 * local knowledge
 * hands on learning
 * local/free natural resources
 * volunteered time and labour.

We provide:

 * workshops
 * garden tours
 * market site for local barter and trade
 * support for the school kitchen garden
 * a network of local growers as a knowledge base/source who can be put in touch with people who need help
 * information updates, question and answers and planting calendar in the Blueskin News.