New Brighton Community Gardens is a community garden at 136 Shaw Avenue in New Brighton, Christchurch, with a Google rating of 4.6 from 75 reviews. Visitors mention the volunteering, the community space, the weaving and the bees, and say the gardens are peaceful and full of ideas.
The website describes a community garden at Rāwhiti Domain, run since 2005, where volunteers work in the garden in exchange for fresh organic vegetables and company. Education programmes for schools and preschools cover gardening, garden art and cooking with food from the gardens. Courses are held in the garden's centre, a large room with a kitchen and toilets, and the site is also used for adapted sport and exercise sessions.
Its Rāwhiti Domain site makes it a peaceful place to volunteer and learn about growing food in New Brighton, Christchurch.