Kia Ora
‘Fruit Trees for Auckland’ is run by a group of passionate people who want to see our parks, reserves, schools and grass verges planted with fruit trees so that there is free and healthy food available for everyone in our community.
In 2012, not only do we want to plant 1000 fruit trees on sites easily accessible to the community, we also want to educate people about how to care for fruit trees and how to harvest and use the fruit.
‘Fruit Trees for Auckland’ is part of ‘The Mount Eden Village People‘. We started in 2008 and since then we have been working on projects to plant fruit trees with council on council land, in schools and early childhood centres and on grass verges in front of people’s homes.
If you wish to plant a fruit tree in front of your house or, if you would like to see more fruit trees in your children’s school or kindergarten or in our parks, reserves and next to playgrounds we would love to hear from you. Please contact us with your site suggestions for fruit tree planting in 2012.
Note that the total number of fruit trees available will depend on the amount of funding and donations we receive by the 31st of May 2012. If demand for fruit trees exceeds what we have available then trees will be allocated based on the order in which requests for fruit trees have been received i.e. first come, first served.
We would also love to hear from you if you, or the company you work for, would like to provide financial support to help us deliver on our vision.
Best wishes from your Fruit Tree Ladies;
Judith Holtebrinck, Jo Baikie, Karen Ward, Justine O’Hara-Gregan and Viv Heslop
‘Fruit Trees for Auckland’ is a subgroup of the community group ‘The Mount Eden Village People – Transition Town Mt Eden’.
