The Mission of the Motueka Community Gardens

These statements are extracts from the Trust Deed.

The mission of the Trust is to provide a charitable service that provides a community food production garden in Motueka for the sustainable production of organic food through time.

Aims: The trust is established to carry out the following aims:

To promote the concept and benefits of community food production gardens with particular reference to the town of Motueka.
To establish, operate and manage a community food production garden at one or more locations in and around the town of Motueka.
To promote sustainable, organic self-grown food production principles and best practices and encouraged self-sufficiency in local food supplies.
To uplift and enhance community nutrition through increased awareness and consumption of self-grown fresh produce grown in the community gardens.
To promote, encourage and facilitate the involvement of schools and young members of the community in sustainable organic food production and the benefits of enhanced nutrition through the consumption of self-grown fresh produce, and to facilitate their learning of food to gardening techniques from older generations.
To encourage community members with physical and health disabilities to enjoy the therapeutic benefits of being involved in outdoor community gardening activities.
To increase awareness of and skills in sustainable, organic food production best practices through appropriate education and skills enhancement programs.
To encourage research and experimentation in organic food production models, methods and practices for long-term sustainable community food production gardens.
To strive as a community activity for financial, administrative and operational self-sufficiency.
To strive to be a model community food production garden on which other such community gardens in New Zealand may be based.