Ōtākaro Orchard is a centre for food resilience and environmental awareness.

 A living learning hub for us and our children, and a precious public asset for the coming centuries; demonstrating a close connection between community and the natural environment with its generous abundance.

We strive to promote co operation and collaboration, (Whanaungatanga and Kotahitanga), towards the care of our land, (Kaitiakitanga), and understanding of the interconnections between Land Health, Water Health, Plant Health and our Health (emotional and physical).


We are all parts of a whole system woven together in the web of life.

What we do to the web we do to ourselves.