Julia Milne

Ten years ago, Julia Milne started teaching children at a Hutt Valley primary school how to grow their own kai. That project has become Common Unity - a community hub that feeds 2,000 schoolchildren… Video, Audio, Gallery

A micro-farming movement in the Hutt Valley is helping to feed hundreds of local people. Urban Kai set up by The Common Unity Project involves keen gardeners, state house tenants and inmates at… Video, Audio

State house tenants north of Wellington are turning their backyards into small farms to help feed hundreds of needy people with the help of a local charity.

It's part of the Common Unity Project's… Video, Audio

Deep in the Hutt Valley in the Wellington region, you'll find a community of volunteers beavering away together, keeping bees, sewing, loaning out bikes, growing vegetables together, making food… Audio

The Sew Good Cooperative is making some very cool bin liners from rescued advertising banners, which would otherwise be bound for the tip. It's one of 21 creative ideas rolling out of the workrooms at… Audio, Gallery

Vandals have destroyed most of a Syrian refugee's market garden in the Hutt Valley in what a local charity says appears to be a deliberate, targeted act. Video, Audio

It's a long way from US narco-ganglands to growing organic food in NZ, but Adán Tijerina has made it. The community-minded Wellington entrepreneur shares his story with Lynda Chanwai-Earle. Audio, Gallery

Kathryn Ryan talks to Julia Milne about the Beeple Honey Collective. Based in the Hutt Valley, a group of local dads are making hives from recycled wood that customers can rent or buy to have in their… Audio, Gallery

More than 100 young farmers are growing tasty food on a disused football pitch at Epuni Primary School. With project co-ordinator Julia Milne of the Common Unity Project Aotearoa, schoolchildren and… Audio