The GreenplanetFM Podcast with Tim Lynch

Now Auckland with 100 gardens in all - 75 as a result of Richard and his small team and 25 other independent community gardens - we ask - what does this effort portend for a healthy ecological Auckland? With the original intention to combat, diabetes 2, obesity and heart disease - this initiative has over 2,000 participants and growing. There are hundreds of others involved that are now taking these learned skills back to their backyard at home. NZ a Nation of interlinked Community Gardens? We ask, can Auckland be the template for the whole of NZ, becoming interlinked in a vast network of community gardens nationwide? Imagine if this could be championed by someone - so that no child would go to bed hungry, when it has been ascertained that when the new Government took power in NZ, 18 months ago there was said to be 295,000 children living under the 60% income poverty line in New Zealand. That being 28% of all children. That today 155,000 children are living in material hardship in New Zealand. That is 14% of