Local delegates highlight the role of indigenous foods in enhancing climate resilience. Learn how you can incorporate these practices into your daily life.
Dedicated to helping Te Puke residents become more self-sufficient by sharing our knowledge, skills, seeds, and seedlings so you can grow your own food, one backyard at a time.
Kai resilience is the capacity of a food system to withstand and recover from shocks and stresses, ensuring a stable and secure food supply for a community.
www.TROPPO.nz
Troppo is a tropical urban food forest in Te Puke, New Zealand, which serves as a living example of how to grow diverse and resilient food systems in a community setting.
Crop Swap Te Puke
A monthly gathering where community members exchange homegrown produce and homemade goods fostering local food resilience and connection.
www.FoodForest.Tours
Provides information and booking options for guided tours, offering educational experience with permaculture, regenerative gardening, and local plant diversity.
The Grow Te Puke initiative had a highly visible and successful weekend at the Gardens on Wheels 2025 event, where our efforts to promote local, community-driven horticulture truly shone. Jubilee Park was alive with creativity,...
Planting the Seeds of National Resilience
Grow Te Puke has always been about the "how-to" of local growing. We’ve spent years getting our hands in the soil right here in the kiwifruit capital, but now, as...