"Taking down the fences between sectors has benefited all parties and increased the chance of sustainable results through community ownership and collaboration"
Philanthropy NZ 2009 conference participant

Community Gardeners' website live

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Community gardeners in Waitakere have a one stop website that provides a lot of useful information, including:

  • guidelines to start a community garden
  • a list of community gardens in the Auckland Region
  • different garden models that can be used
  • a large collection of resources, from books to local workshops

"The pages have been designed as a user friendly, first point of call for community gardeners in Waitakere City, but we hope that they will also be used by gardeners outside of Waitakere as a lot of the information is transferrable." says Brooke Walker, Ecomatters Environment Trust's Community Gardens Facilitator.

Check out the site at www.ecomatters.org.nz

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