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Ōtākaro Orchard Urban Farm This is a project by Edible Canterbury & Canterbury Permaculture Institute -Food, Education & Ecology

It was high time for some major w**ding today. Spring has certainly sprung and it’s a mission keeping on top of everythi...
07/11/2022

It was high time for some major w**ding today. Spring has certainly sprung and it’s a mission keeping on top of everything.
Our pollinators were also out in force, just as busy as us.
🐝 ☀️ 🌹

With this wonderful sun also came those strong, warm winds. A quick visit to the site to pick something up turned into h...
04/11/2022

With this wonderful sun also came those strong, warm winds. A quick visit to the site to pick something up turned into half an hour of tidying up w**d mats. 😅
Things are now back to normal... until the next wind 💨
(Before/After tidy up)

We had a very informative talk with the wonderful Robina from Tui community. Thank you Robina for informing us and bring...
04/11/2022

We had a very informative talk with the wonderful Robina from Tui community. Thank you Robina for informing us and bringing us together over food resilience 🌟 🌱 🍓

*Presentation tonight*A reminder for tonight’s presentation with Robina McCurdy or food resilience.6-8pm Tauranga CBD Li...
02/11/2022

*Presentation tonight*
A reminder for tonight’s presentation with Robina McCurdy or food resilience.
6-8pm Tauranga CBD Library

A fantastic workshop on Tuesday evening with Roz from Otakaro Orchard on the importance of seed saving with Canterbury H...
02/11/2022

A fantastic workshop on Tuesday evening with Roz from Otakaro Orchard on the importance of seed saving with Canterbury Horticultural Society 🌱
A fantastic skill to learn. Thank you to all who attended, what stunning weather we had ☀️

Brassicas planted out thanks to our amazing volunteers. Thank you Corina, Roz, and Becky 🌳 ☀️ 🌈 🌧 🌷
30/10/2022

Brassicas planted out thanks to our amazing volunteers. Thank you Corina, Roz, and Becky
🌳 ☀️ 🌈 🌧 🌷

We have been adding colour to the gardens 💐 These flowers are as bright as the sun ☀️ Enough to brighten up even the gre...
27/10/2022

We have been adding colour to the gardens 💐
These flowers are as bright as the sun ☀️
Enough to brighten up even the grey days 💧

Perfectly situated outside the tea shed ☕️
Come and enjoy the flowers and the tea on our next working bee Tuesday 1st Nov 10-12

A massive shout out to our wonderful volunteer Hagen! 🤩This week he’s been battling the twitch as the space is cleared f...
26/10/2022

A massive shout out to our wonderful volunteer Hagen! 🤩
This week he’s been battling the twitch as the space is cleared for upcoming workshops.
Thank you so much!! ❤️🌱🌷
As a bonus, Hagen also found some rogue strawberry plants which have now been planted out 😋🍓

A couple of permaculture events coming up. Join us for a presentation evening at the CBD Library and/or an edible landsc...
25/10/2022

A couple of permaculture events coming up. Join us for a presentation evening at the CBD Library and/or an edible landscape design workshop with Robina McCurdy!

23/10/2022

Join us for a working session to clear the ground where 2 seed lines from Southern Seed Exchange New Zealand will be planted out for the next 2 years... Canterbury Horticultural Society will be hosting this workshop event ... learn about seed saving and plant out the carrots and beetroot on Nov 1st 🐝🥕🫶

After an evening of prepping a new bed, more plants are in and irrigation set up 🌱 💧
22/10/2022

After an evening of prepping a new bed, more plants are in and irrigation set up 🌱 💧

Another great week getting into another section of the garden thanks Corina, Hagen, Bexie and Carrrie for the twitch and...
21/10/2022

Another great week getting into another section of the garden thanks Corina, Hagen, Bexie and Carrrie for the twitch and thistle w**ding... Bexie, Carrrie and I got carried away with that we planting in the dark to get the 1st section done. Big thanks to Rudy for bring refreshments to keep us going! You will have to wait till another post in the daylight to see the plants 🤣

End of the week tidy up ... office rearranged, resources all stacked, new sink fixed to an old table, tea shed sorted, n...
16/10/2022

End of the week tidy up ... office rearranged, resources all stacked, new sink fixed to an old table, tea shed sorted, new potting area defined, and container put into order...phew deffinetly ready for the weekend. Thanks Bexie and Thomas couldn't do it with out you!

Teamwork (nice to have you back Alex) getting all the twitch piles covered to slow heat up the soil to the growth, and s...
16/10/2022

Teamwork (nice to have you back Alex) getting all the twitch piles covered to slow heat up the soil to the growth, and stop any compaction if rain comes... soon we will work through sieving out the soil to get any roots … thinking of creating a large frame that could fit 2-3 wheel barrows under, watch this space.

Getting into the twitch at he top end of the site...what a huge job! Thanks to Bexie, Dave and Alex for a fun day of her...
16/10/2022

Getting into the twitch at he top end of the site...what a huge job! Thanks to Bexie, Dave and Alex for a fun day of here there and everywhere conversations that kept us all entertained

Wooo what day!! So much has been done I can't quite believe. Huge thanks to Simon from Maiden Group for the clearing and...
16/10/2022

Wooo what day!! So much has been done I can't quite believe. Huge thanks to Simon from Maiden Group for the clearing and sorting of the big piles on site and the removal of the twitch grass (to be sieved through later) half a day that has saved us months of work! And to Thomas, Bexie and Lillee for getting stuck in around the polytunnel to go deeper to get the remaining twitch and start the mulching for the walkways around the site. Exhausted & Exhilarated to made such big moves

What a fun filled wkd of compost, propagation and no-dig-bed building...Thans to Lily White, Roz Rolls & Lillee Star for...
16/10/2022

What a fun filled wkd of compost, propagation and no-dig-bed building...Thans to Lily White, Roz Rolls & Lillee Star for hosting this wkd at the farm. We got so much done with abundance of laughter and food from the 22/23 Permaculture Design Certificate students ... what a crew! Thanks for your hands, hearts and minds that gave us a fantastic time and outcome.

Great to see the polytunnel filling up with seedlings Thanks Roz, and the crew fromt the weekend. Also a big thanks to C...
16/10/2022

Great to see the polytunnel filling up with seedlings Thanks Roz, and the crew fromt the weekend. Also a big thanks to Canterbury Community Gardens Association for their 3 crates of silverbeet, beetroot and rainbow chard from Oderings Garden Centres. Can't wait to get these in the ground!

Getting set for our 1st wkd site visit from Canterbury Permaculture Institute's 22/23 PDC Students. ... . collecting pal...
16/10/2022

Getting set for our 1st wkd site visit from Canterbury Permaculture Institute's 22/23 PDC Students. ... . collecting palettes, hay, horse poo, cardboard (thanks Viv) and soil (thank you Trees For Canterbury)

Another layer done on the large polytunnel... Cleaning the the plastic and big work getting out the twitch and thistles
16/10/2022

Another layer done on the large polytunnel... Cleaning the the plastic and big work getting out the twitch and thistles

Thank you Simon for a great job in clearing space, also to Rhianna for sourcing and helping in the planting ... Our 1st ...
16/10/2022

Thank you Simon for a great job in clearing space, also to Rhianna for sourcing and helping in the planting ... Our 1st set of crops are in Whataroa potatotes from morton-smith dawe and agria potatoes & celery from untamed earth

Getting our cleaning station systems up and runnning for our 1st order of Leeks, salad (from Seven Oaks Community) and f...
12/10/2022

Getting our cleaning station systems up and runnning for our 1st order of Leeks, salad (from Seven Oaks Community) and flowers for the Food Resilience AGM 30th September. Great day of stepping into our new patterns and vision for the next 2-years with the Food Resilience Network and the expansion of the Edible Canterbary Charter.

Thanks to Roz and Lillee for getting the last of the tunnel cleared and Clean, and for Taiana getting the shelves back i...
12/10/2022

Thanks to Roz and Lillee for getting the last of the tunnel cleared and Clean, and for Taiana getting the shelves back in and irrigation ready for the seedlings.

Big thanks to the volunteer crew from Otakaro Orchard for helping us get started on clearing the out the polytunnels
11/10/2022

Big thanks to the volunteer crew from Otakaro Orchard for helping us get started on clearing the out the polytunnels

The beginning of September we got a good dusting on-site … didn’t stop us getting a bunch of stuff done... Thanks Bexie ...
11/10/2022

The beginning of September we got a good dusting on-site … didn’t stop us getting a bunch of stuff done... Thanks Bexie and Simon for joining this project and getting stuck in to clearing, tidying and making plans for the direction and vision of this space

Big Thanks to to The University of Canterbury and Chloe from the Sustainability Office, the moving crew (with there grea...
10/10/2022

Big Thanks to to The University of Canterbury and Chloe from the Sustainability Office, the moving crew (with there great sense of humour) for the free furniture, and Murray James for the vehicles and heavy lifting and drops off to the Urban Farm, Otakaro Orchard and, Seven Oaks Community

Halted by the July down-pour
10/10/2022

Halted by the July down-pour

Contracts were finalise at the end of June and in July we started making moves on clearing the space...
10/10/2022

Contracts were finalise at the end of June and in July we started making moves on clearing the space...

In March this year Cultivate Christchurch had their closing down sell, and during this process Lillee from Canterbury Pe...
10/10/2022

In March this year Cultivate Christchurch had their closing down sell, and during this process Lillee from Canterbury Permaculture Institute made a bold move to put a 1st hold on the main infrastructure on the Peterborough Str site, in hopes of taking on the site to continue the urban farm aspects of the operations.

1 week later will had the big thumbs up!

BIG THANKS to ...
Elisha from Life in Vacant Spaces for bringing this opportunity to us,
Food Resilence Network supporting this site to be the 2nd Edible Canterbury project site
Brigett from Piko Wholefoods Co-Operative and Murray from Maiden Group for the financial donation to enable us to purchase the infrastructure and get us started on this new adventure!

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333 Manchester Street

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http://www.otakaroorchard.org.nz/

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