"What we are talking about is unleashing community ingenuity"
Mark Cabaj, Tamarack Institute, Canada

12 November 2009 NZ Herald: Project helps homeless find their roots

By Simon Collins

A group of Auckland's homeless have become part-time gardeners, thanks to a collaboration involving Ngati Whatua and the city's young business leaders.

Ngati Whatua has given up part of its "whenua rangatira", the land of its chiefs around Orakei Marae at Bastion Point, for homeless people to start a vegetable garden to supply the Auckland City Mission's foodbank...

Read the full story at the New Zealand Herald website