Growing Pop Up Gardens

Pop Up Gardens has been developing, building and

maintaining 'pop up' edible community gardens in Christchurch to help bring some colour and life to the vacant spaces left behind after the demolition of earthquake damaged buildings. Thus far this has all been achieved on a volunteer basis and with funding assistance from the Christchurch City Council

and support from other community groups. The seed has been sown and now Pop Up Gardens wants to grow and flourish, to do this Pop Up Gardens needs

your gracious support. As of February 2016 there are two community "pop up" gardens in situ to manage and a third in the build process.

The major issue that makes the community

work more difficult is the lack of a dedicated vehicle. This has meant to date the amount of work that can be carried out has been hindered. We could achieve so much more with a work vehicle!

Any donations received will go towards the purchase of a Ute or van approximately

$2000-3000,

more plants and materials, $500

developing community involvement programs $1000

and extending the community garden in Peterborough street. $500

Pop Up Gardens has been set up as an unincorporated group and has a purpose of developing community pop up gardens in urban

Christchurch funding them through grants, donations and volunteers. It is run as a non profit social enterprise.

As a signatory to the Edible Canterbury Charter Pop

Up Gardens shares the values and principles outlined in the charter and is

proud to be a member of the wider food resilience network in Canterbury.