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Join the team at North East Valley for their inaugural crop swap!

Summary Report of Musselburgh Heart and Soil Community Garden by the Food Growing Support Group.

The latest edition of The Dunedin Vegetable Growers Club newsletter out now!

Startup Dunedin has been busy in 2024 crafting an easy guide to help you get started in Market Gardening. Check out their informative website or reach out to the Startup Dunedin team to get your hands on your own guide to creating a Market Garden!

Check out the inspiring story of Waewae Permaculture in this video below. More inspirational video’s can be found here.

Free Online Course from Every Bite aimed to educate community members on reducing food waste and costs of food in the home! Take this amazing opportunity to learn and challenge yourself to change your approach to food.

Check out these resources about our important pollinators!

This resource was inspired by the Ōtepoti Food Futures Hui held in November 2024. OFN is proud to support all outcomes and actions from the well attended hui. Want to know more? Email Our Food Network today!

Do you know the nine planetary boundaries? Read this informative article and see how it relates to food resilience.

A huge thank you to our funders for 2024, with your support we have been able to successfully host a series of community hui, continue to support the Community Fruit Harvest and maintain a presence in the work toward greater resilience in Ōtepoti's Food System.

Thank you!

Want to learn how to host a Crop Swap in your neighbourhood?

Check out these handy tips from Crop Swap Aotearoa!

Kia ora,
It’s been another busy month, and as we approach the festive season, it’s the perfect time to express our heartfelt thanks and gratitude to all our contacts and connections for your support and encouragement throughout the year. We wish you all the best for the summer season ahead, with fruitful crops and continued mahi!. Check out our full newsletter here

Blog 4 of the Food Waste Summit

The Ōtepoti Food Futures Hui by Our Food Network was held on the 16th November at the Dunningham Suite, Dunedin Public Library. If you missed the hui, you can read the summary here!

Support Group Formed!

At our recent hui, participants were encouraged to identify an action that they would like to start/lead.

Check out this newly formed garden support group. First meeting Wednesday 27th November, 3 30 - 4 30pm, at the Tomahawk Community Garden in Ocean Grove (by 30 Oregon St. - use the short access walkway to the garden on the Recreation Reserve)

Check out Blog 3 of Food Waste Wednesday here!

Please help with this important survey!

Impact Consulting who is working on a feasibility study for a local grower's cooperative: "We are currently investigating the potential for a Local Food Co-op in Dunedin (on behalf of Village Agrarians) and are interested in perspectives from anyone involved in the Otago Food Sector".

https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/DunedinFood

Blog 2 of Food Waste Wednesday - a review of the Food Waste Summit by Robyn Zink

Check out this article in The Star highlighting our upcoming hui!

Unity needed for ‘food resilient future’ | Otago Daily Times Online News

Our chairperson, Robyn Zink, recently attended the Food Waste Summit organised by WasteMinz and NZ Food Waste Champions 12.3.

To summarise the proceedings, we are going to do a series of blogs that give some more detail about the material covered and where you can find out more!