Colloboration of Community Gardens doing a deputation to the CCC Long Term Plan

Hayley Guglietta leads viewers through a heartfelt tour of Canterbury’s community gardening movement in Christchurch. The video opens at the Richmond Community Garden, where she passionately describes how locals came together after the earthquakes to reclaim space, restore soil, and grow food. She emphasizes the garden’s role as a catalyst for reconnection—bringing neighbors together and fostering a sense of purpose and belonging.

She showcases the wide variety of garden features—vegetable plots, fruit trees, native plantings, compost systems, and recycling initiatives—underscoring their environmental benefits. Hayley credits volunteers of all ages for sustaining these efforts and highlights the educational workshops, harvesting events, and seasonal gatherings that enrich the community’s connection to nature and to each other.

Finally, Hayley positions the garden as part of a larger Canterbury-wide network that connects similarly focused groups. She concludes by encouraging councils, funders, and citizens to support community-driven green spaces as vital infrastructure—celebrating how grassroots energy, led by committed local leaders like herself, nurtures ecological restoration, social resilience, and shared wellbeing.