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Thursday <strong>June</strong> 2 2<strong>02</strong>2<br />
Community gardens’ grateful for compost<br />
• By Emily Moorhouse<br />
TWENTY-TWO tonnes of<br />
“gold” in the form of compost<br />
has been donated to community<br />
gardens following a shortage.<br />
Forty-one community gardens<br />
around the city will benefit from<br />
1200 bags of compost to help<br />
grow produce, donated by Tui<br />
Garden Products.<br />
Canterbury<br />
Community<br />
Gardens Association<br />
capacity<br />
builder Rachel<br />
Vogan said the<br />
donation was<br />
Rachel<br />
Vogan<br />
“crazy” and<br />
has been wellreceived<br />
by all of<br />
the community<br />
gardens around the city.<br />
“It’s literally like gold for the<br />
gardens because we can’t grow<br />
good crops without getting<br />
good nutrition into the ground,”<br />
Vogan said.<br />
Vogan was approached by Tui<br />
after the bags of expired compost,<br />
and strawberry and vegetable<br />
mix were discovered. They<br />
couldn’t be sold so the company<br />
asked if the community gardens<br />
could use it.<br />
Because the compost goes<br />
straight into the ground and the<br />
community gardens follow all<br />
the health and safety procedures<br />
Vogan said the compost would<br />
be fine to use.<br />
“It’s better than getting money,<br />
it’s what we need to help grow<br />
our food, so it’s amazing,” she<br />
said.<br />
She said there is a huge issue<br />
with shortage of compost for<br />
community gardens, especially<br />
with the uncertain future of the<br />
organics processing plant in<br />
Bromley.<br />
That has a big impact on community<br />
gardens because we’re<br />
really short of compost to put in<br />
the ground and without being<br />
able to feed the soil it’s really<br />
hard to keep feeding people,”<br />
Vogan said.<br />
Vogan said it was a “juggling<br />
act” getting the compost to<br />
each community garden as the<br />
association didn’t have access<br />
Left: A Bryndwr Community Garden volunteer<br />
spreads the compost over produce. Innes Ward<br />
councillor Pauline Cotter helped move some of the<br />
bags.<br />
to delivery trucks or a depot to<br />
store the compost.<br />
Luckily, Owens Transport<br />
donated two delivery trucks<br />
and drivers for a couple of<br />
hours to deliver the 26 pallets of<br />
compost to the Wai-ora Trust,<br />
which offered its forklift and<br />
space to store the compost for<br />
other community gardens to<br />
collect.<br />
Each of the 41 community<br />
gardens can take up to 22 bags<br />
of compost, seeing garden members<br />
filling up their cars to the<br />
brim.<br />
Vogan said in spring, a garden<br />
event will be held and the<br />
leftover compost mix will be<br />
used for that.<br />
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