New Zealand Woman’s Weekly

Napier’s Garden of Eden ‘We Nourish Our Neighbours’

Julie McLean watches from a window of her Napier bungalow as a young boy on his way to school nips inside her front gate, pops an apple and an orange in each pocket, pulls a blueberry from the bush and then cycles away.

This is not daylight robbery – it’s a dream come true for Julie, 60, who together with her husband Chris, 69, and friend Chris Wells, 66, set up Lancaster Street Community Garden in the

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