The Richmond Community Garden came together to re-establish the pre-earthquake vegetable garden next to Avebury house. However, with a dedicated group of volunteers the garden quickly became established and we set our sites on 2 acres of red-zone land. LINZ have given us a 2 year lease on this Red Zone land to provide a community space for people to enjoy and learn about gardening and nature. We want to show how this space can become a permanent and important part of the Richmond community, we intend to grow enough food to share, set up workshops on gardening and food preservation for people to attend and learn and we will create a natural playground to compliment the paddling pool and existing playground for families to hang out and socialise.