Aunty’s Garden is a source of vegetables, fruit, herbs, and community support which fortunately withstood the recent Cyclone Gabrielle.
Inception
Arohanui Lawrence (Ngāti Kahungunu), known as Hanui or Aunty, has been involved with the Waipatu Marae all her life. She began the community garden in 2003 on her cousin’s land, adjacent to the marae. The 8000m2 property had been a paddock for grazing cows which Hanui originally ploughed and
