Ōtākaro Orchard Community Food Forest Garden
Is a central hub fo promoting the Food Resilience Network.
It's demonstrates a close connection between community and the natural environmen, where you can find peace, food, and learning in the city centre.
See the website for more info
Below is a series of photo's jumping through the design process leading up to the daily running and working bee's and teaching held onsite by kaitiaki, Roz Rolls (left in the picture).
Serval different strand lead each of the design team, Jane Ash, Gordyn Hamlyn, Steffan Kraberger & Lillee Star, to come together. Christchurch Food Forest Collective was the starting for most of us and a conversation with many groups and individuals in 2012, which led to the Food Resilience Network being formed. A great overview detailing outcomes the FRN workshops of the design process for Ōtākaro Orchard in this article Permaculture Input in Canterbury on the PiNZ website.
2015
 The site is nothing but rubble back fill. |  Shaping out the main design componants |  Refining grwing space through pathway access around the site |
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 All ready to go for the canopy tree locations |  Defining the growing zones |  Allocating placement of the top canopy trees, to allow space for grwoth, havest, paths and other guild plantings. |
 Describe your image |  The site is looking great and is ready to have the trees locations mark for the digger to make |  First viewing of the site after landscaping contractors put in the hard fill |
2021
 Plant guild |  Roz showing the PDC group around |  Going into detail about the plants and their benefical relationship to each other |
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2022
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