Community gardens in the Manawatū
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Food waste management resources
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Edible Garden is a fruit tree specialist nursery based in Ashhurst.
Edible Backyard offers consultations and workshops plus lots of great educational information via her blog and montlhly seasonal gardening newsletters.
Awapuni nurseries sell a huge variety of edibles and ornamentals wrapped in newspaper and offer excellent gardening advice on their website.
Kahuterawa Homegrown do regular Facebook posts about what’s happening in the garden with useful tips and tricks.
Paranui Organics for locally made soil mixes, mulches and everything you need for the soil/getting started.
Spoilt Soil A new local permaculture based venture there to help you create and maintain a garden that feeds you and works with the unique ecosystem and set of circumstances that you live in
Para Kore are zero waste education programme designed specifically for marae, community organisations and schools. Para Kore regularly post videos on their Facebook page with zero waste ideas in the kitchen.