Looking for a unique way to support sustainable food sharing and reduce food waste in your community? Get your hands on our beautiful Crop Swap fundraiser tea towel!

Find out where and when are all the local markets in Taranaki! Full list and map in the article.

You can easily grow your own veggies in Taranaki! Here are 10 tips from our expert!

Crooked Vege Ōtaki is launching a market garden with a simple but radical kaupapa. Their mission is to improve access to locally grown, sustainable kai using regenerative growing techniques.

When someone has a kraken as their logo, you look a little closer, wanting to know a little bit more!

On The House is a New Plymouth based food surplus rescue charity. Since early this year, they have a new base at the Community Hall next to the Holy Trinity Church in Henui Street in Strandon, and this is where they welcome community members that have difficulties accessing kai.

Barbara Olsen-Henderson's flair for plant-based kai introduced Taranaki locals to veganism but it was the staff who inspired Barbara to start recycling…

Community gardens are spaces for education, collaboration, building relationships, and healing. Not to mention, they offer a source of fresh produce and seasonally grown veggies that are locally harvested…

While Chere believes in a small town you have to cater to everyone, what she won't budge on are her values that are the heart of her New Plymouth vegan café…

There is a belief that gardens with their fragrant florals and delicious vegetables and fruits require great maintenance and can be a burden, but they do not have to be! Beginners can ease into converting their grass patch at their own pace by breaking it down into seven steps.

Hamāda’s journey started 15 years ago when he first attempted to become vegetarian, but the turning point was in March of 2020 during lockdown when he slowly cut out milk and realised that he no longer felt lethargy and discomfort…

Our community’s interest in learning more about home-grown food was already there, but the Covid-19 lockdown definitely boosted everyone’s motivation to get their hands dirty: we all saw seeds and gardening supplies being in high demand, and how everyone decided that one of the best ways to spend the weeks at home was to get their vege garden set up.

How can we come together to address food security?

This was the main question that guided our actions in organising and promoting our Food Resilience Talks event on Thursday, 3rd of December. Given the importance of this topic and its growing relevance in the post-Covid context across Taranaki and Aotearoa, Sustainable Taranaki is now involved in the facilitation process to co-create a food secure communities plan for our region.

What is food resilience and how can we address the challenges that it implies? The conversation around food resilience in Taranaki is getting more relevant every time, as more and more actors, those who wish to enact positive change, start to engage in ways to secure our access to healthy, nutritious and affordable kai.

Ground Breaking Mushrooms hit the New Plymouth food scene with a spring debut at the Taranaki Farmers Market just a couple of weeks ago.

Waitoriki & Inglewood Crop Swap continues to put a smile on everyone’s faces, as a strong wave of community aroha is felt by regulars and visitors alike who attend to swap their backyard produce, seedlings and excess household products. One of the first Crops Swaps to be established in Zealand, it is still as popular as when it began.

There are 178 other coffee retailers in New Zealand that have also implemented “Borrow A Cup” which are stainless steel, reusable cups that come in two sizes (eventually pint size for the keen festival goer…hint hint WOMAD), and cost $3.

During this period of uncertainty, people are starting to wonder where their food comes from, along with how to support their whānau. A very high percentage of the fresh fruit and vegetables available in the supermarkets come from overseas and can be at risk of undersupply. So how can we as a community remain resilient in these challenging and unpredictable times?

In April this year local inspiration and founder of Crop Swap Aotearoa, Franziska von Hünerbein, travelled to Scotland to participate in the Climate Change and Consciousness 2019 conference. We asked her if she would share some reflections on her experience so that the community can benefit from her journey. Here's what she said.