Food Group Wish List for Vision

The following list is a work in progress. We have been gathering ideas from many sources and welcome more. Next step will be breaking it into small steps and giving the steps deadlines. What do you want to see in Motueka in 2020?

 

FOOD WISH LIST FOR MOTUEKA 2020

 

WHAT

Food security 75-90% of food produced locally

Food miles reduced, “buy local” campaign

Elderly and disabled food needs are cared for

People prepare most of their own meals with fresh foods

Harvesting and preserving commonplace

Seasonal fruit and veggie consumption is the norm

Native and heritage varieties are common

Slow food movement

Herbs/medicinals

Bees and honey

Poultry and eggs

Local abattoir/homekill etc ways to get the meat from the hoof to the freezer

Dairy and cheesemaking

 

WHERE

Private, public, commercial, intstitutional

Open orchards – edible plants on some TDC lands (parks, buildings)

Home gardens

Allotments, community gardens (?are these the same thing?)

Market gardens

Commercial growers (diversified)

Greenbelt (food production area keeps pace with/limits/defines population)

Gardens in schools and at hospital

New developments of a certain size must provide for gardening space and encourage edible landscape in their park/playground area

 

HOW

            Existing/In Process

Compost/mulch widely used

Worm farms

Permaculture courses offered locally

Book/dvds at library

Garden mentoring (e.g., homegrown motueka)

Garden  competitions at schools

Column in paper

Wwoofers

Instant “garden in a box” (square meter wood frame supplies, half meter soil or potting mix, seeds)  “Patch from Scratch”

            Coming Up

Resource list

Web links

Organic methods predominate

Commercial growers Biogrow certified

Biodiversity and succession planting rather than monoculture

Soil Preparation information available

Focal point for garden startup materials that are provided at or close to cost

Matchmaking between those who need/have  garden space/labor

Tool libraries

Garden working bees to help get new gardens established

Garden classes, 4H clubs, workshops

TDC maintenance crew has organic and/or permaculture training

Use of roadside herbicides banned

GE free

Drama at festivals and fairs and markets

 

POST-HARVEST

            Existing/In Process

Seed savers

Heritage seeds collected, traded, sold

Farmers market

Roadside stands

Publicly accessible commercial kitchen

Food preparation or preserving column in the papers

            Coming Up

Storage available locally

Commercial growers sell to local restaurants and cafes, then elsewhere in NZ

Community supported agriculture (e.g., The Box)

Farmer-consumer cooperative

Collect and distribute garden surplus (e.g., neighborhood/street/block boxes, sell at hospice shop, swaps, etc)

Cooking classes

Promoting vegan/vegetarian/less meat in the diet

Preserving classes

Recipe exchange

Value added industries developed for food and secondary products (eg, dried fruit, wool yarn/fabric)

Tourism marketing highlights local foods

Delivery to rural areas