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Thursday <strong>February</strong> <strong>25</strong> <strong>2021</strong> 3<br />
Pupils prepare gardens for festival<br />
PLANTS, FLOWERS and<br />
vegetables are sprouting at<br />
schools across the city as they<br />
finalise their designs for the<br />
Grow Ōtautahi garden festival<br />
next month.<br />
Banks Avenue School and<br />
five others will be taking part<br />
in the Rātā Foundation School<br />
Gardens exhibitions at the<br />
three-day festival.<br />
It comes after the event was<br />
cancelled last year due to the<br />
Covid-19 pandemic.<br />
Pupils have been sharing<br />
unique stories of their communities<br />
by creating special<br />
gardens.<br />
The Rātā Foundation School<br />
Gardens celebrate the best of<br />
the local environment, with<br />
a view to sustainability and<br />
education.<br />
Festival director Sandi<br />
MacRae said she was impressed<br />
at the work and detail in the<br />
school gardens.<br />
“What I’m seeing in the<br />
lead-up to the event is really<br />
blowing me away. The schools<br />
are not only creating wonderful<br />
reflections of their local communities,<br />
they’re also weaving<br />
the work into their learning<br />
with a focus on community,<br />
sustainability, creativity and<br />
celebrating our environment,”<br />
she said.<br />
SPROUTING: Pupils across the city, including at Banks Avenue School, have been<br />
preparing to show off their unique gardens at the Grow Ōtautahi festival next<br />
month.<br />
“The plants are growing well<br />
and I can’t wait to see them<br />
on-site in the Christchurch<br />
Botanic Gardens.<br />
“The commitment of the<br />
teachers, children and local<br />
communities involved is inspirational,<br />
and I know visitors<br />
to the festival will be delighted<br />
with what they have created.”<br />
Rātā Foundation chief<br />
executive Leighton Evans said<br />
the festival provided a unique<br />
opportunity to celebrate the<br />
Garden City while increasing<br />
environmental awareness.<br />
It also supported educating<br />
children about sustainable<br />
growing practices.<br />
“The Rātā Foundation School<br />
Gardens provide a pathway for<br />
building the next generation of<br />
gardeners and eco-warriors,”<br />
said Evans.<br />
The Grow Ōtautahi Christchurch<br />
Garden Festival Trust is<br />
closely monitoring the national<br />
Covid-19 situation, following<br />
all advice from the Government<br />
and will respond “swiftly”<br />
to any changing circumstances.<br />
Said MacRae: “We are all<br />
focused on the task at hand and<br />
gearing-up to welcome people<br />
to the first-ever Grow Ōtautahi.<br />
This has always included a<br />
sharp focus on public safety<br />
and we’ll have appropriate<br />
hygiene and health-related<br />
processes in place.”<br />
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The plant processes food and green<br />
waste collected through the city’s<br />
kerbside collection, which is then<br />
turned into compost.<br />
The city council will invest<br />
about $22 million to upgrade the<br />
technology and construct a second<br />
processing building ensuring all parts<br />
of the composting process occurred<br />
indoors.<br />
Beaumont said the organisation<br />
was committed to completing the<br />
re-development of the plant as soon<br />
as possible.<br />
“We have engaged a contractor to<br />
assist us in completing this work as<br />
quickly and efficiently as possible and<br />
intend to bring a procurement plan<br />
to elected members in March for final<br />
approval,” she said.<br />
“We have already let the market<br />
know that we will soon be seeking<br />
tenders for this project and will formally<br />
call for expressions of interest<br />
this month.”<br />
Once a contractor was chosen, the<br />
city council will be able to determine<br />
firm timelines for the project, but<br />
“work will begin this year.”<br />
“The speed of implementation will<br />
be a criteria that we consider when<br />
assessing the tenders as we know this<br />
work needs to be done quickly,’’ said<br />
Beaumont.<br />
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