An edible community food forest will soon start taking shape in an Alexandra park.
The Manuherikia Food Forest Group is developing soil in part of Centennial Park and plans to plant the first new trees this autumn.
Last June the Central Otago District Council granted the group permission to use the area for three years to create a food forest.
The first plantings would probably be apple trees and berry bushes, which will add to the fruit trees already existing on the site from previous owners of the section, including apricots, hazelnuts and wild plums as well as kiwifruit vines.
Group member Anna Robinson said the idea was for it to be run by, and to benefit, the community, using land otherwise going to waste.
