Grow Together - a new food growing and sharing resource

Some of the gardeners at the Smith St community garden in Linwood, Christchurch, which is run by the Te Whare Roimata Trust

I was in Auckland at the Green Living Show last weekend, and there I met Katherine Smith of the Community Food Network. According to its website, Grow Together:

The Community Food Network was started in November 2011 with the aim of inspiring New Zealanders to take on the challenge of helping to provide nutritious food for themselves and other New Zealanders in need. The aim is for this website to act as a link between people who are hungry and those who want to help alleviate this growing social problem.

The Community Food Network is about empowering people to take responsibility for growing some food for themselves, their families, and to share surplus produce with friends, neighbours and community groups.

I think this is a very timely and important initiative, and already the website has lots of links to food growing groups, and sources of food growing information. I will be doing what I can to help Katherine build this great community resource. Meanwhile I have made a link to it so that you can check it out for yourself, and perhaps contribute to it as well.

A family harvests food for dinner at Kelmarna Gardens, Herne Bay, Auckland