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AGM 2020

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Northern Community Gardens will be holding it's AGM on Tuesday 4th August 2020, 8 pm at Newlands Community Centre.If you would like to nominate someone as a committee member or Office holder please email info@ncg.org.nz with the nomination.We would love to see you there.Northern Community Gardens Committee

*UPDATE* 13/05/20 The working bee …

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🌻🌼🌸🌺💐 In order to comply with the social distancing rules at level 2, the amount of volunteers who gather at our usual Sunday 2-4pm working bee will be limited to current members only. WCC has advised us that: People undertaking activities must be regular members of the group – no invitations to new

Please ask first ….

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Please ask before taking produce from the gardens. We can be contacted at: info@ncg.org.nz Some plants are specifically being grown to collect seeds for the next planting season. Sadly, our only two caiguas (see photo below) and a yellow chili which still wasn’t ripe, have prematurely been picked. Hopefully, whoever took them have

Volunteer Activities

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Sadly all volunteer activities on Wellington City Council land has to be put on hold at present. Unfortunately, ceasing all volunteering includes: watering, weeding, gardening or any site maintenance at our community garden and nursery. This is disappointing but understandable at a time when we have to put the health and wellbeing

Spring Planting Day 2017

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Our Annual Spring Planting Day, Sunday November 5th 2017 2pm to 4pm. What a great sunny day for our annual event, although there was a bit of wind! Thank you to everyone that came along and helped! Check out some of the photos from the event, there are some more on our Facebook

Spring Planting Day 2017- Sunday 5 November 2pm to 4pm

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  Jay Street Community Garden is having its annual spring planting day and would like to invite you to come along and check out the garden. Come and wander around, plant a seedling and join us for a chat. When: Sunday the 5th of November from 2-4 pm Where: Jay Street Community Garden (up

Neighbours Day Event – Sunday 26 March 2017 2pm to 4pm

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Jay Street Community Garden and Nursery would like to invite you to come along and check out the garden. We love meeting new people and it doesn't matter about the level of your gardening knowledge, whether you are an interested novice or an experienced gardener. Everyone is welcome to come along!

Spring Planting Day 2016 – Sunday 6 November 2pm to 4pm

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***Niote this event has been proposed from 30 October due to rain and will now be on the 6 November*** Jay Street Community Garden is having its annual spring planting day and would like to invite you to come along and check out the garden. Come and wander through the garden, plant

Neighbours Day and Local Food Week Event

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We have a very lovely Neighbours Day and Local Food Week Event at Jay St Garden on Sunday 20th March 2016 (2pm to 4pm). We had about 30 people come along! Great to meet some new people and show them our lovely garden.   All our welcome to our regular workings bees,

Working Bee – Sunday 2pm to 4pm

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Our regular working bees are currently on  Sunday from 2pm to 4pm. If it is raining the working bee will be cancelled. During Summer we normally also meet at the garden on Wednesdays 6.30pm to 8pm. Everyone is welcome to come along and join in. It is a pretty relaxed afternoon/evening

Spring Planting Day

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Our Annual Spring Planting Day, Sunday November 1st 2015 2pm to 4pm. What a great sunny day for our annual event, wonderful to have over 40 people from our community come along and help out! Check out some of the photos from the event, there are some more on our Facebook

Spring Planting Day – Sunday 1st November 2pm to 4pm

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Jay Street Community Garden is having its annual spring planting day and would like to invite you to come along and check out the garden. Come and wander through the garden, plant a seedling and join us for a chat. We look forward to seeing you at the garden.  When : Sunday the 1st

Wellington Airport Regional Community Awards 2015 Finalist

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We are honored to be a finalist in the Wellington Airport Regional Community Awards! The awards recognise the valuable contribution of volunteers to community groups across the Wellington Region. Thank you to all our volunteers for your hard work at the garden and also for the wonderful support of our

Neighbours Day – Sunday 29th March 2pm to 4pm

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As part of Neighbours Day  Northern Community Gardens is having a Garden Open Day as part of our working bees this Sunday 2pm to 4pm. Come along to the Jay St Garden any time between 2pm and 4pm  and see how the garden has been growing, chat to other gardeners and

Spring Planting Day!

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Spring Planting Day Jay Street Community Garden is having a spring planting day and would like to invite you to come along and check out the garden. Come and wander through the garden, plant a seedling and join us for cup of tea. All welcome! When : Sunday November the 2nd from 2 -4

Neighbours Day – Sunday 30th March 2pm to 4pm

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As part of Neighbours Day and Local Food Week Northern Community Gardens is having a Garden Open Day as part of our working bees this Sunday 2pm to 4pm. Come along to the Jay St Garden any time between 2pm and 4pm  and see how the garden has been growing, chat

Visitors at the Garden

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We had a lovely afternoon today at the Jay St Garden. We had some children from the Enviro club at Paparangi school come along and help set up our worm farm! We looking forward to having you visit again soon! Plus Andy visited us from Hawea Flats Domain Food Forest and gave

Kiwi Community Assistance

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Kiwi Community Assistance (KCA) is a registered charity  that provides and assists in the provision of household goods, clothing and food to families in need in our local area (Newlands, Johnsonville, Tawa, Porirua, Titahi Bay). We have recently had a few good harvest at Jay St garden and have been able to

Garden Celebration

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Here are a few photos from our first anniversary celebration on Sunday 9th December 2012. It was a great afternoon in the Sun. Thanks to everyone who has helped with the garden in the last year. Check out our facebook page for more photos.

One Year Anniversary

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On December the 10th it will be one year since our first working bee! It is amazing to think the garden has been around for almost a year, and that before the garden, there was a large grass field with lots of dock growing in it! There is still some dock

The garden in growing!

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We have just added some more photos to our facebook page. Here are a few of the photos and check out facebook for the rest. (You should be able to have a look at the page even if you are not on facebook)

Fruit Trees at Lyndfield Lane Park

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On Sunday 17th June we helped plant fruit trees at Lyndfield Lane Park. Six large feijoa were planted in between the olive tress that were planted last year.  Five walnut trees were planted on the bank and we mulched around all the trees. It was great to get the fruits trees

Water!

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On Sunday 22 April we had some of the team from SKM install mains water onsite. Thank you for your help to get our water installed. It is so great to have running water for the garden! There are three taps now for the garden, but you will need the key

Working bees Tuesday nights

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We are having a regular working bee every Tuesday night from 6.30 to 8.00pm. Come along to help with planting, weeding and to meet others involved in the project. Due to daylight savings end soon our last working bee will be on Tuesday 27th March. We will have weekend working bees over

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