South Kaipara Good Food

Kai Grow

Growing kai together across the rohe, from Taupaki to Glorit. Plan your own home beds, learn from the plant library, volunteer at teaching gardens, and help grow kai for local food support.

Nourishing communities, cultivating change.

Register for spring seedlings

Preorder summer garden seedling packs by suggested donation, sponsor a pack for another household, or request a gifted pack.

Open seedling packs

Plan home beds

Describe your beds, choose the kind of garden you want, and get a staged year plan plus this-month jobs.

Build a garden plan

Volunteer safely

Start with public teaching sessions, register your details, then move toward supervised buddy windows when approved.

See public sessions

Learn through Homegrown beds

Find public and learning beds where Homegrown clients can practise skills before taking them back to their own space.

View gardens

Grow a share for food support

Mark a whole bed, half bed, or future surplus in your planner so SKGF can follow up before counting it as supply.

Offer growing space

Follow updates and seed swaps

Read seasonal notes, seedling support updates, seed-swap ideas, and food-bank growing calls.

Read updates

Koha market

Seedlings and garden supplies

Tuesday 11 August

Pickup time TBC

SKGF Hub koha market

Bamboo stakes

free / koha optional

Useful for simple tomato or cucumber supports.

40 stakes

Coriander

slow bolt / free / koha optional

Best planted in a cooler spot or partial shade.

24 seedlings

Lettuce

mixed green / free / koha optional

Good for quick salad beds and pots.

36 seedlings

Parsley

flat leaf / free / koha optional

Slow but useful herb; plant near the kitchen.

18 seedlings

Open my garden hub

Learning sessions

Public gardens and training

Monday

10:00

Commercial Road Teaching Garden

Gemma leads salad bed weeding, watering, and harvest checks.

Tuesday

13:30

Mill Road Homegrown Beds

Seedling transplant practice and bed prep.

Friday

09:30

FarmSource Bee Corridor

Pollinator strip care and light weeding.

See public sessions