Manawatū Food Action Network (MFAN), is a collective of community groups who work together to help communities grow their own food, make healthy food more accessible, reduce food waste, and provide free or affordable food to people.
Our shared vision with our network groups:
We are regrowing intergenerational food cultures, and doing so in ways that care for our planet's soil, water, and climate. We are conserving heritage varieties and respecting indigenous biodiversity and pollinator habitat.
We are learning together. We are partnering with other individuals and groups who wish to make home-grown, community-grown, and locally-farmed food more accessible to local people across the region.
What we do
Our activities include advocacy and education for food resiliency, food localisation, community-food initiatives, skills transfer and waste minimisation in the Manawatū.
Our scope of interest includes (but is not limited to) food security, food sovereignty, food banks and sharing sites, food waste capture, harvest capture, food resiliency, localising food, community gardens, community food education, crop swaps, seed banks, composting and more.
We work together to help close gaps, encourage better collaboration and awareness of services and activities of the members to the benefit of the local community.
