"We want to create a way of working as a whole community, agencies and us together, that creates hope and optimism"
Georgie Thompson, Ruapotaka Marae, Tamaki
2 May 2010: Community Gardening on Radio NZ

Heard on Radio NZ Sunday Morning (Sunday 2 May), Chris Laidlaw and Jeremy Rose talked about about Britain's greenest town and Wellington's (NZ) newest community gardening project, the Owhiro Bay Community Garden. 

Todmorden - a town of 17,000 in the Pennines in northern England - was recently declared Britain's greenest town. In under two years the Incredible Edible Todmorden project has seen help-yourself-gardens popping up throughout the town, one-third more residents growing their own food, 10 times as many people buying locally and 15 times as many people keeping chickens.

On 2 May Chris Laidlaw talked to one of the founders of the Incredible Edible Todmorden project, Pam Warhurst. Although the community garden movement is alive and well in New Zealand, to date there's nothing on the scale of Todmorden. But when it comes to transforming both landscapes and people's lives it would be hard to beat Wellington's newest community garden project, the Owhiro Bay Community Garden. Jeremy Rose visits the garden and talks to some of those involved.

The Radio NZ website, Sunday Morning page has the programme.