POG is Paekākāriki’s Community Gardening group. We are working together to make Paekākāriki a place of abundant organic food production – in home gardens, on berms, at the school – and, in the longer term, to establish a substantial community orchard and garden. We run a community orchard and garden – and your are welcome to join us for gardening bees.
You can adopt a fruit tree to look after by contacting us here as part of our Paekākariki Orchard tree guardianship scheme,.
Or find out more and join our Pae Cycle community recycling scheme here. Sue Pegler updated us on the success of the initiative one year later – read that here.
For a history of our group and orchard and gardens and how it has developed with lots of photos read The Paekākāriki Green Dream.
You’ll find our developing site at the northern end of QE Park by the Tilley Road entrance (to the left of the weaving whare).
There is a much wider vision for the use of this land, and we urge anyone with enthusiasm and ideas to get in touch with us. We hold regular workshops (a chance to learn skills such as seed saving, pruning etc) and irregular meetings. We also harvest and cook a shared kai for the whole community. If any of this sounds like you, get in touch! Read more about us here.
Invitation to care for a fruit tree
As part of KCDC’s 2018 No8Wire week the site was transformed into a nature playground for two days, welcoming hundreds of visitors in creative exploration.
The site is also now home to an urban hut by Kemi Niko & Co as part of the 2020 NZ Festival of the Arts. The public are encouraged to add to the cladding.