An urban vegetable garden next to the Compassion Soup Kitchen in Haining Street, Wellington, was opened and blessed on Tuesday. The ceremony took place at 7am on a cool Wellington morning and was attended by about 100 people. The space for te māra (the garden) was gifted to guests of the Soup Kitchen by the Sisters of Read more
NZ Gardener Magazine Awards has named Sister Rosemary Revell as “Best Vege Gardener” for 2012. She is now one of 10 finalists for the overall prize of New Zealand’s top gardener. This is decided by public vote. “As far as I am concerned any prizes would go to the garden and to help others start their Read more
A glass house for the Compassion Centre Soup Kitchen is the latest addition to the Owhiro Bay Community Garden. Guests of the soup kitchen can now raise seedlings for their garden plot, with the help of staff members Sr Christina Williams and Lorraine Irwin. Guests were last year introduced to the garden by its coordinator, Read more