Kai Resilience: NZ's National Directory for Local Food Projects

Local food projects often stay invisible beyond their own patch. Kai Resilience is Vector Group Charitable Trust's national directory for crop swaps, food forests, community gardens, pātaka kai, nurseries, workshops and kai projects — every region, not only Te Puke.

The directory is built so growers and communities can find each other. Roots are in Te Puke and the Bay of Plenty, where the programme is deepest, but listings are open from Northland to Southland. Browse the map and categories at kairesilience.food, or start with the national guide.

For Bay of Plenty growers, the regional network hub groups nearby projects. Te Puke's local cluster sits at Kai Resilience Te Puke, alongside Troppo, Grow Te Puke and the wider Western Bay map.

Listing is free: add your crop swap, garden or food forest. Free grower tools (orchard planner, companion planting, harvest calendar and more) live at kairesilience.food/tools. Learning paths sit with Food Resilience School NZ.

Kai Resilience is a public programme of Vector Group Charitable Trust (CC45966), built by Te Puke Digital. Programme overview: vectorgroup.org.nz/our-work/kai-resilience.

Te Puke Today will keep mixing daily positive news with intermittent posts about these network projects — so readers who find a story here can step into the tools and directories that do the work.