Your Community Garden In Wānaka
Grow Wānaka was established in 2020 by passionate like-minded locals wanting to create a common space for people to connect, learn, share and grow.
Grow Wānaka is a community garden, composting centre, and education hub. Our project works to enhance community resilience, food security, minimise waste through organics recycling, and expand knowledge and skills through educational opportunities.
Grow Wānaka operates on a circular model by accepting food waste from our urban centre and converting it into biologically active compost. The compost is used to grow organic produce in the garden, which is then shared among our volunteer team with weekly surplus distributed to our local Food Bank and Upper Clutha Produce Pantries. Education is also a huge part of what we do.
We run weekly working bees, monthly workshops and events, and collaborate with many community organisations to provide a wide range of opportunities for everyone to get involved.
Challenging The Food Production & Waste Cycle
Connect, Learn, & Grow
We're a charitable trust was set up to support the project and with a couple of generous community donations the garden was set in motion.
Volunteer With Us
Grow Wānaka runs Bee & Tea Working Bee sessions every Saturday morning year round. Everyone is welcome to join - whether you're a Wanaka local or visitor.
How You Can Help
We're working to help our community reduce organics to landfill through our drop off hub at the garden where households can deliver their food scraps to repurpose.
Donate
Grow Wānaka is a Charitable Trust Organisation, which relies on donations of time, energy, materials and funding to achieve our community resilience and waste minimization goals and deliver on our community outreach and education programmes.
If you would like to support our work and project with a donation please get in touch with us.
We accept one-off monetary donations or join 'Friends of Grow Wānaka' as a regular donor. Donations over $5 are tax deductible.