COMMUNITY GARDEN GROWING
The Free Food Club is always looking for ways to equip our fellow friends (students) with new skills, friendly faces and free food! If you like to learn new skills, have dirty hands, or love free food, we welcome you to our Community Garden plan. FFC and friends, thanks to the funding and efforts from the WSU team, have initiated a new ‘Community Garden’. This is an opportunity for you to hone your gardening skills (or gain some), meet some like-minded people, play a small part in fighting climate change, or just enjoy some of the free food that will be provided on the day!
Our friends at the WSU have shouted at us some staunch garden beds, which you will find next to the Cow Shed (out the back of the WSU), sourced by who we like to call the “Master Gardener” of Waikato University – Mark Thompson.
The community garden shall grow food that students can feel free to harvest as they need it and later this year, the FFC plans on hosting a ‘Soup Kitchen’ event, making soup out of the vegetables that we grow (provided our gardening skills are sufficient enough), and then turning each soup into a bit of a pot-luck for the cooks to enjoy.
Massive thanks go out to the team behind the scenes for making all of this possible, the ‘Master Gardener’, the WSU team, and to the other clubs involved, such as Te Tini o Hakuturi and other Te Kaahuinga Tumuaki ( T.K.T.) affiliates for providing their expertise and support!
We are looking for volunteers to help set these gardens up, so if this sounds like a bit of you, or if you have big muscles or think you can handle a shovel, wheelbarrow, or even a spatula for the BBQ, then register your interest at the link below where you can also find the registration form for the Free Food Club in case you want to be informed of any future free food events.
