Kaicycle Urban Farm & Community Compost - Newtown
About Kaicycle Urban Farm & Community Compost
Our story
In 2015, Wellington City Council supported ‘workerBe Oasis Incorporated Society’ with the lease of the public park site, 5 Hospital Road. ‘workerBe Oasis’ created an Urban Farm at 5 Hospital Road, which, through the profit of produce sales to cafes and restaurants, donated more than 50% of its total produce to community groups in need. The produce was distributed predominantly through a partnership with Kaibosh, a food rescue organisation.
Around the same time, ‘Kaicycle’ (formerly a separate community-composting initiative based in Aro Valley) was looking for new management and a site to expand to. In 2016, Kaicycle (composting), while maintaining a separate business model, came under the umbrella of ‘workerBe Oasis Incorporated Society’, and moved to 5 Hospital Road. Several of our current and former members participated in WCC’s Low Carbon Challenge accelerator programme in 2016 to grow this composting initiative. In 2018 ‘workerBe oasis Incorporated Society’ changed its name to ‘Kaicycle Incorporated Society’, and continued to operate both the composting and the urban farm alongside each other, but as two distinct parts of the project.
In 2020, Kaicycle Urban Farm began a Community Supported Agriculture (CSA) model, signalling a shift from the farm’s previous produce distribution models of donations and wholesale sales to hospitality. The CSA model has enabled Kaicycle Urban Farm to hire a larger farm team that increases our capacity to invest more in community engagement, workshops, education, and volunteers. These have always been essential components of the Urban Farm since its inception as ‘workerBe Oasis’.
Contact Kaicycle Urban Farm & Community Compost
| Address : | Kaicycle Urban Farm & Community Compost 5 Hospital Road, Newtown, Wellington 6021, New Zealand |
| Postal code : | 6021 |
| Website : | http://kaicycle.org.nz/ |
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