05/05/2026
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Want to learn how to grow food? 🤔WITT has 10 scholarships available…😃
Shari Corbett-Dwyer is passionate about creating community gardens so that more people have access to fresh produce grown in their neighbourhood 🥦🫛🥕🍅🍋🫑
A scholarship funded by the Bishop’s Action Foundation to do the New Zealand Certificate in Organic Primary Production (Level 4) last year helped her achieve her dream 🌟
A professional hair stylist, jewellery maker and all-round creative with her own businesses and studio – discovered her green fingered inclination a few years ago. During the COVID lockdown in 2020 she decided it was time to tackle her neglected garden. Talk of food shortages added to her motivation 👩🌾
She set up a communal garden at a property near her Welbourn home after she completed a Level 3 horticulture course.
“I wanted to do it for people who didn’t have space for a garden or didn’t know how to garden.”
The scholarship to do the Level 4 programme at WITT gave her the confidence to pursue her communal garden vision on a bigger scale and she launched GROWMEEZ – with the support of Sustainable Taranaki.
She’s now coordinating five communal garden groups with three more waiting to join the scheme. Her role involves running workshops on seed saving, composting and other topics. “My goal now is for every neighbourhood to have a communal garden,” Shari says. “It’s a no-brainer.” 🫶
Read more: https://www.witt.ac.nz/news/scholarships-sprout-innovation-in-organic-growing/
If you’re interested in learning about organic methods, there are 10 scholarships available (worth $1500 each) for the July intake of the Level 4 programme. Applications close May 31.
Programme and scholarship info here: https://www.witt.ac.nz/study/primary-industries/food-and-fibre-production/new-zealand-certificate-in-organic-primary-production-level-4/
