New Zealand: Urban farm in Auckland’s heart connecting locals with their food
A farm in the centre of our largest city is helping feed a community — and fostering connections between chefs and diners at the same time.
Source: Seven Sharp
1News
June 7 2023
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On a sloped, rocky section of land loaned from the City Rail Link, the ‘earth workers’ at OMG Urban Farm are up every morning tending to their forest of food.
“We do have crops. We’ve got carrots, we’ve got some leafy greens, we’ve got these leeks but we have got lots of lovely weeds coming through,” farm manger Jake Clarke told Seven Sharp.
The urban farm, located on Symonds St, is a For the Love of Bees initiative. After five years, they’re now growing thousands of kilos of food in the middle of the city.
“There’s kind of an understanding that farming goes on out there and city things go on in here,” assistant Tom Scott said.
“If you can have one of these every few kilometres and feed everyone in your local spot you don’t all of the carbon for transport, you don’t need to worry about as much packaging.”
