Our vision is for neighbourhoods to have collective wellness through access to healthy food, social connection and sustainable economic activity.
Grow Space works to improve local food resilience and social equity by contributing to hyper-local, circular, regenerative systems in The Fringe Neighbourhood, Tāmaki Makaurau, Aotearoa. To achieve our vision and mission, we run two initiatives in the grounds of Eden Park. Each initiative is designed around our three Pillars of Change:
· EARN: Run hyper-local, circular, regenerative enterprises t
o improve local food resilience
· LEARN: Grow capability to improve social equity and support regenerative food systems
· SHIFT: Influence attitudes and build community to deliver systems change so that we have an impact
Morningside Urban Market Garden (MUMG)
MUMG builds the skills of women (with a focus on migrant and refugee background women) to supply produce to local businesses and residents. Located on part of the carpark at Eden Park, our teaching garden is home to our Ako Ako programme which trains women to grow food for sale. Our Earn programme is based at both the teaching garden, and MUMG On Walters site. It provides spray free, hyper-local food to local cafes, restaurants and retail outlets and has created paid work for four people. A key aim is to scale the garden, so it generates profits to invest back into both Ako Ako and Grow Space overall. Morningside Urban Compost Kitchen (MUCK)
MUCK is a neighbourhood scale compost hub to process waste as close to its source as possible and create a local living compost. Located alongside MUMG on Walters at Eden Park, MUCK offers a neighbourhood composting service to local businesses and residents, runs composting workshops and supplies the MUMG gardens with compost. Muck contributes to the MUMG Ako Ako programme and locals can also buy compost from MUCK. A key aim is to create a locally based, circular solution to processing our neighbourhood organic materials, and contribute to the development of regenerative neighbourhood food systems.
23/12/2024
While we haven’t been as active on social media this year, we’ve been doing the mahi of re-imagining our space with neighbours 💚
From co-designing what's possible, to refreshing our garden rhythm, collaborating together, and learning as we go, we have been working towards creating a place to share ideas about gardening, eat wonderful kai, and get to know neighbour's.
A huge thank you to all our incredible volunteers, partners, and neighbors for your continued enthusiasm and support. We hope your Summer will be filled with laughter, good company, and delicious kai, Meri Kirihimete !
05/07/2024
So, this is pretty awesome, how about it Tāmaki Makaurau !
26/05/2024
Awesome final day at the at Eden Park making pollinator hotels with the team from The ReCreators !
27/03/2024
Some awesome energy and ideas at the co-design on Sunday ! Thanks to all those that made it along. Watch this space !
21/03/2024
We are looking forward to hosting neighbour's in the garden on Sunday ! Join us at 2.30pm with your energy and idea's, and be a part of co-designing whats next !
Light refreshments will be provided, please RSVP through the link in our bio for catering purposes.
07/03/2024
We’re reimagining the community garden at Eden Park, and you’re invited !
Join the Grow Space team to share your thoughts and ideas for the space, and join in with making it happen.
There's some great infrastructure already established, and lots of possibilities !
21/02/2024
The Kūmara Awards are a celebration of projects that have made a positive difference to life in public places. Anyone can make a nomination for a Kūmara Award!
It’s a great way to celebrate the amazing projects, big or small, that make our places healthier… little libraries, community gardens, stream restoration, street art, playgrounds, community events and more!
Nominations are open until February 29th in Auckland, Wellington and Christchurch.
Avoid decision paralysis and just get that surplus produce into a pot (or oven, or food processor).
10/01/2024
If you have surplus Summer kai in the garden or seedlings available to share, check out the Magic Beans app. The more people that join locally, the easier it is to share spare produce with neighbours.
Join Magic Beans, an online community connecting home food growers in your neighborhood and throughout New Zealand. Get inspired, share ideas, and swap homegrown produce with like-minded individuals.
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Located across several sites in the neighbourhood Morningside Urban Market Garden (MUMG) is focused on extending the urban market gardening and business skills of migrant and refugee background women as they learn to supply hyper-local produce to local cafes and businesses.
A teaching and producing garden MUMG has since November 2018 been prototyping infrastructure, systems and curriculum using regenerative growing practices. Raised beds in upcycled apple crates, a tunnel house, propagation, watering and composting systems are being established as migrant and refugee background women are supported to learn about the business of urban market gardening.
MUMG is running a two year programme of learning and mentoring. The intention is for the first cohort of women (currently engaged) to learn for a full calendar year. They will then mentor a second cohort before taking their skills into their own enterprises. The second cohort will mentor the third, and so on.
The women are encouraged to start their own enterprises before they leave the programme and produce from these gardens can be sold into the market MUMG has secured.
Our key aims are to:
Create an opportunity to grow business and market gardening skills among migrant and refugee background women
Supply hyper-local organic produce to local cafes and businesses
Generate profits that will shared equitably with the growers
Support the development of purposeful social connections among the women involved, tutors and customers
Contribute to innovative development of local public spaces
You are welcome to visit and enjoy MUMG respectfully at any time. Growers will be there several times each week. Best times to talk with you are on Monday mornings.
You can be part of MUMG by helping in the garden, offering donations of expertise, goods or cash and eating our food at Crave and Kind cafes. Other suggestions for contributing are most welcome!
Morningside Urban Market Garden is a not-for-profit project of Grow Space a collaboration of Catalyse Network, Crave Cafe, Kind Cafe, NZ Red Cross, Positive Women Inc, Kai Collective and Belong Aotearoa
