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Commenced:	01/01/1987
Submitted:	03/08/2011
Last updated:	07/10/2015
Location:	96 Kotare Road, Wairoa, Hawkes Bay, NZ
Phone:	+64 6 8386269
Website:	www.koanga.org.nz
Climate zone:	Mediterranean

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The Urban Garden Project Crowd-Funder on Indiegogo

Project: PRI New Zealand (Koanga Institute)

Posted by Kat Gawlik almost 10 years ago

Our Urban Garden project's aim is to research how we can best feed our family a nutrient dense diet and be food secure on 200m². We have started a crowd-funding campaign on Indiegogo to help us to develop the garden further and publish our results.

Our 200m² urban garden here at Koanga Institute is over a year old now and we hope once further developed it will become a model to live by in urban areas around the world. It is our goal that a family of four will be able to satisfy their nutritional requirements (Weston Price principles) and even make a small income from 200m² using regenerative permaculture design.

So far in the garden we have 40m2 biointensive gardens, 34 fruit & nut trees, vines and bushes in a forest garden setting, top-bar beehive, rabbits above a worm farm, chickens within a chicken scratch yard where aerobic compost is made, soldier fly farm, biochar burner, temporary wicking beds and a passive solar cloche. Last month in December we harvested over $700 worth of produce from the garden.

But it's not complete! We have plans to add more permanent wicking beds, vertical wicking beds, a council approved composting toilet, chlorine/fluoride water filter to prevent soil microbes from being killed, a passive solar drier, and structures to utilise every nook and cranny for growing. And we need to support an intern to maintain and record results from the garden and publish our techniques for all to learn from.

We cannot fund it alone and need your help to reach our goal of $19,000. Through our crowd-funding campaign on Indiegogo, there are great perks to be had for contributing such as e-booklets, heritage seeds, workshops and even your own garden design. You can contribute from just $5.

We hope you will support this crucial work by making a contribution here:

http://igg.me/at/UrbanFoodSecurity

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