Growing Kai

Through onsite, community and backyard gardening

Hosting community gardens
Developing productive gardens at Salvation Army centres and facilities
Encouraging home garden development through planters, tubs and seedlings

Growing your own food makes an important contribution to food security and sovereignty empowering whānau to choose and actively invest in the food they consume or share with others. Gardening provides a cost-effective way to source nutritious food, particularly when grown from seed, and also offers additional benefits in terms of physical activity, emotional wellbeing, social connection, cultural connection, education and more.

Salvation Army centres are helping whānau and communities to grow their own kai by providing materials and workshops to encourage home growing. Initiatives cater for a range of living situations and include garden planter boxes for larger sites and more settled whānau, through to tubs designed for small spaces which are easy to transport to new homes.

Salvation Army centres are incorporating productive fruit trees and gardens wherever possible enabling produce to be grown and harvested for sharing through Foodbank and pātaka kai. In some locations, such as Alexandra, we host gardens that are a vital community food security resource supporting numerous groups with fruit, vegetables, honey, flax and more.

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