Community Garden Supervisor - Christchurch

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#224007 28-Oct-2017 12:35

Do have passion and experience of community gardens?

Great people and communication skills?

Do you enjoy enabling and supporting people?

Te Whare Taonga O Nga Iwi Katoa / Linwood Resource Centre Trust are looking to employ an overseer for 25 hour per week to facilitate our community gardens.

The ideal person will have:

Qualifications or experience in organic gardening / horticulture
Experience of working with people with a wide variety of abilities and backgrounds
The ability to plan realistically, prioritise tasks and balance competing demands
Understanding of community
Ability to work as part of a team
A current driver’s license.

For a job description and further information please contact Mona Contractor on:

Tel. 0220 620 733 or 03 981 5594

Email. Mona.linwoodresource@accd.org.nz

Download Job Description Here: http://linwood-community-garden.org.nz/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/Community-Gardens-Overseer-JD-Oct-17.pdf

Applicants for this position should have NZ residency or a valid NZ work visa.

A small corner of the gardens.

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#1899344 11-Nov-2017 18:49

Why are these things always full of leafy greens?
How about stuff people want to eat?
Kumara, tomatoes, capsicum, strawberries (which are easy), corn, beans, zucchini, caulis and such.

maybe some fruit - passionfruit, grapes, and so on.

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#1899352 11-Nov-2017 19:19

Is that Strickland St?

nunz

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#1899932 13-Nov-2017 07:57

tdgeek:

Is that Strickland St?

No - linwood ave

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#1899936 13-Nov-2017 08:01

pctek:

Why are these things always full of leafy greens?
How about stuff people want to eat?
Kumara, tomatoes, capsicum, strawberries (which are easy), corn, beans, zucchini, caulis and such.

maybe some fruit - passionfruit, grapes, and so on.

We have grapes, lemons, several varieties of heritage apples, several varieties of peaches, olives, pears, strawberries

also kale - 3 types

silverbeet - 4 types

caulis, broccoli, beans (3-5 types) , carrots, pumpkins, tomatos - various varieties, herb gardens, succulnets, bushes, flowers, etc etc etc. Corn in season.

this place has a huge range - one photo doesnt make a garden survey :)

A lot of it comes down to what the individual wants.

If you want to sponsor us a hot house we will happily tackle capsicum , chilli, coffee and other warm requiring varities. Passionfuit - not ure how that goes in chch.

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#1899940 13-Nov-2017 08:16

Is the produce for sale or do community members have their own patch they garden for themselves? I thought the former, but if you are employing someone, its the latter?

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#1899943 13-Nov-2017 08:22

tdgeek:

Is the produce for sale or do community members have their own patch they garden for themselves? I thought the former, but if you are employing someone, its the latter?

We provide plots for free - the plot 'owners' can do what they want - except we do expect them to turn up once per week to maintain their plot. Nothing worse than stuff sitting useless.

The other plots are community. We all work in them, when stuff is grown then the produce is shared. We don't sell produce.

The community house has a Maori name, Te Whare Taonga O Nga Iwi Katoa - The house of treasures / resources, for the local people. Its all about community and helping the locals.

I get paid from funds raised through charities such as Tyndal foundation.