Mangaroa Farms in Upper Hutt are turning there publicly accessible walking track to a foraging zone with mixed fruit , nuts, fungi, medicnal herbs and root crops for Joe Blogs to access for free.

The farm loop track is 3 km and the planting will include two more dense areas.

The funding platform is unique, donations are matched by the funders (in this case, Mangaroa Farms parent trust is one) smaller donations are more powerful than larger ones, as its the number of donations that unlock the matches. It is a new way for grass roots projects to get funding. What that means is $1 means the world.

As part of this, there will be free workshops , where people can learn to graft and propagate, one is coming up later this month.

There will be a community planting day this year with some larger grade trees going in, and then more planting next year from all the trees we grow this year.

Please check out the link and share/donate if you can.
https://maearth.com/mangaroa-farms/fruit-and-forage

A “thank you” to Mangaroa Farms for sending this article to The Upper Hutt Connection.

06/07/26