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

2026-08-11 at SKGF Hub koha market.

40 stakes Bamboo stakes - free / koha optional. Useful for simple tomato or cucumber supports.

24 seedlings Coriander (slow bolt) - free / koha optional. Best planted in a cooler spot or partial shade.

36 seedlings Lettuce (mixed green) - free / koha optional. Good for quick salad beds and pots.

18 seedlings Parsley (flat leaf) - free / koha optional. Slow but useful herb; plant near the kitchen.

Open my garden hub

Learning sessions

Public gardens and training

Monday 10:00: Commercial Road Teaching Garden with Gemma Demo.

Tuesday 13:30: Mill Road Homegrown Beds.

Friday 09:30: FarmSource Bee Corridor.

See public sessions