Loyola Galvin - CathNews New Zealand https://cathnews.co.nz Catholic News New Zealand Sun, 10 Apr 2016 22:08:47 +0000 en-NZ hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.7.1 https://cathnews.co.nz/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/cropped-cathnewsfavicon-32x32.jpg Loyola Galvin - CathNews New Zealand https://cathnews.co.nz 32 32 70145804 Well-known nun's popular garden no longer viable https://cathnews.co.nz/2016/04/12/nuns-popular-garden-no-longer-vialbe/ Mon, 11 Apr 2016 16:52:46 +0000 http://cathnews.co.nz/?p=81714 A Wellington nun's vegetable garden has been bulldozed because it was no longer viable to keep it going. Sister Loyola Galvin, 96, and her garden captured the hearts of New Zealanders in a documentary Gardening with Soul. She tended to her garden at the Home of Compassion in Wellington for over 15 years, The garden Read more

Well-known nun's popular garden no longer viable... Read more]]> A Wellington nun's vegetable garden has been bulldozed because it was no longer viable to keep it going.

Sister Loyola Galvin, 96, and her garden captured the hearts of New Zealanders in a documentary Gardening with Soul.

She tended to her garden at the Home of Compassion in Wellington for over 15 years,

The garden provided organic produce to those in need. Continue reading

Well-known nun's popular garden no longer viable]]> 81714 Gardening Sister invested as member of NZ Order of Merit https://cathnews.co.nz/2014/03/25/gardening-sister-invested-member-nz-order-merit/ Mon, 24 Mar 2014 18:06:18 +0000 http://cathnews.co.nz/?p=55891 The gardening sister, Loyola Galvin may have retired but she is still gardening. The nun in her early 90s was invested by Governor-General Sir Jerry Mateparae in a ceremony at Government House last week. She was made a Member of the New Zealand Order of Merit for services to gardening. For more than 15 years Read more

Gardening Sister invested as member of NZ Order of Merit... Read more]]> The gardening sister, Loyola Galvin may have retired but she is still gardening.

The nun in her early 90s was invested by Governor-General Sir Jerry Mateparae in a ceremony at Government House last week. She was made a Member of the New Zealand Order of Merit for services to gardening.

For more than 15 years she tended the gardens at Our Lady's Home of Compassion in Island Bay on Wellington's south coast. Surplus vegetables produced in the garden were donated to a soup kitchen which served a hot meal each evening for 60 to 100 people.

She was New Zealand Gardener magazine's gardener of the year in 2008, and a documentary called Gardening With Soul was made about her.

In recent months she has moved to the sisters' retirement complex in Silverstream. Continue reading

Gardening Sister invested as member of NZ Order of Merit]]> 55891 Documentary about Sister Loyola Galvin https://cathnews.co.nz/2013/07/30/documentary-about-sister-loyola-galvin/ Mon, 29 Jul 2013 19:07:11 +0000 http://cathnews.co.nz/?p=47767 Sister Loyola Galvin, from the Home of Compassion in the Wellington suburb of Island Bay, was named national NZ Gardener of the Year 2008 by NZ Gardener magazine, and interviewed twice by Kim Hill in 2008. Filmmaker Jess Feast was inspired by those interviews to make a documentary film about Sister Loyola, Gardening With Soul, Read more

Documentary about Sister Loyola Galvin... Read more]]> Sister Loyola Galvin, from the Home of Compassion in the Wellington suburb of Island Bay, was named national NZ Gardener of the Year 2008 by NZ Gardener magazine, and interviewed twice by Kim Hill in 2008.

Filmmaker Jess Feast was inspired by those interviews to make a documentary film about Sister Loyola, Gardening With Soul, which receives its world premiere in Wellington on 27 July at the 2013 New Zealand International Film Festival.

Listen to interview with Jess Feast

Watch Trailer for Documentary

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