Fruit trees for Auckland
100 Citrus for schools
Sepember 2011
We had a wonderful day on Sunday the 7th of August providing 100 fruit trees to local schools and kindergartens. All 100 fruit trees now have their roots down in their new garden homes in schools and kindergartens all over Auckland.We would like to thank all the teachers and parents for sharing our vision of free and healthy food by taking action and being involved in the ‘Citrus in schools’project.
We have three main goals with this project - to support families with lowering their grocery bills; to encourage local food production; and to teach children how to plant and care for fruit trees. Our commitment for July 2012 is to provide 500-1000 fruit trees to schools and kindergartens. If you want to be part of this project and suggest a site for the planting of a fruit tree please register on our website: www.fruittrees.org.nz. Best wishes, Your fruit tree ladies Judith, Justine, Karen, and Jo
100 fruit trees for schools and kindergartens:
April 2011
The fruit tree group’s latest initiative is to introduce a community funded “Citrus in Schools” tree planting project for Auckland schools. This project has been developed to benefit children by helping them gain a greater understanding of the importance of eating fresh fruit, and locally sourced produce.
The goal is to plant a total of 100 trees in schools and early childhood centres in the wider community by the end of July. Schools and early childhood centres registered on our fruit trees for Auckland website will each receive up to 5 trees as well as an information pack on how to plant and care for the trees using organic methods and the benefits of eating citrus fruit.
Schools and early childhood centres registered on our fruit trees for Auckland website will each receive up to 5 trees as well as an information pack on how to plant and care for the trees using organic methods and the benefits of eating citrus fruit.
Updates: Fruit trees on Maugawhau
November 2010
The fruit trees on Maungawhau are looking great and we have received lots of encouraging feedback for this project. Together with the Friends of Maungawhau we are now planning our next fruit tree planting day on Mt Eden for 2011. This is a great opportunity for our community to get together and plant free fruit for the future. The fruit trees also extend the international heritage value in relation ship to food plants. Fruit trees on Maungawahu not only make the walk on the mountain more enjoyable, they are also a wonderful source of food for bees, birds and humans alike.
Fruit trees for local schools and kindergartens
September 2010
Nearly all of the fruit trees we donated to our local schools at the beginning of September have been planted. Our local playcentre had to postpone the planting due to a major makeover on their grounds and we decided that it would be safer to plant the trees after the renovation work has been completed.
Thank you to all the parents, kids and teachers that have been part of this project, we really enjoyed working with you.
We are pleased to say that we received funding from our local board to plant an additional 45 fruit trees for the schools and kindergartens in our community. So lets keep on planting!
Fruit tree planting on Maungawhau
August 2010
A joint project between the Friends of Maungawhau and the Mount Eden Village People.
What a great turnout for our fruit tree planting day on Mangawhau this Saturday. A rainy day is apparently the best day to plant trees, so this was definitely the perfect day to dig in!
Thank you to everyone involved for taking action in transforming our community into a more sustainable place. This was a team effort to bring free and healthy food into to Mount Eden that will be a nice treat on your walk up Maungawhau.
We would like to see more fruit trees planted in streets and local parks and next to playgrounds to support families to save money on their grocery bill and to educate children on where fruit comes from.
We now have 3 feijoa, 3 lemon, 2 grapefruit and 2 peach trees on our mountain. We also would like to thank Councillor Glenda Fryer from our local community board, who joined us to plant a fruit tree and supports our vision of having these community trees as part of Mount Eden.
We would like to hear your feedback about having community fruit trees in our city.
Please go to: FB: Fruit trees for Auckland or suggest a site on: http://www.fruittrees.org.nz
See the fruit tree planitng video on youtube
Fruit tree planting in parks and reserves
July 2010
The 131 community fruit trees that council planted with the funding from our local board are in the ground. Now all we have to do is wait until they are big trees and produce fruit. We have now a selection of : Walnut, Nectarine, Peach, Apple Monty’s Surprise, Avocado, Feijoa, Plum, Guava, Pear, Mandarin in our parks. We love our new fruit trees and decided to visit them. Tim, who just joined our fruit tree group, went to visit the fruit trees in Watling, Morvern and Potters park and reported back that all trees look really healthy. You can see some picture of our young community fruit trees below.
Planting fruit trees for local communities
July 2008
In 2008 Judith Holtebrinck, from the Mount Eden Village People took the idea of planting fruit trees for local communities to the Eden/Albert Community Board. The Board accepted her proposal and provided funds to plant 131 fruit trees on Council land.
These trees will be planted next to playgrounds, in parks and reserves and streets in the wider community of Mt Eden, Epsom and Mt Albert during June and July 2010.
Our goal is to bring fresh food into our city, to support families to save money on their grocery bill and to educate kids on where fruit comes from. This is a trial project, if successful, more fruit trees can be planted next year with council on council land.
We need your help to bring fruit trees back into our neighbourhoods. If you live in Auckland and would like to have a fruit tree on your verge, in front of your house; or if you know of any Council land suitable for fruit trees, we would like to hear from you!
Please send us details of potential locations for neighbourhood fruit trees by signing up or join us on facebook. All suggestions will be assessed for suitability before locations are chosen.
