Community garden founders retire

Mangawhai Community Garden volunteers gathered to honour founders Joan Farrell and Ted Tuffey, who have retired. From left, current coordinators Victoria Wilson and Trish Harvey, Joan and Ted, Marie Fitt and Julie Wintle. (Back, from left) John Lambert, Debbie Wallis, Sue Vos, Trish Lynn-Whyte, Dwyllis Watson, Trish Walwork and Craig Whitehead. (Absent, MCG coordinator Ali Bain) The founders of one of the area’s longest-running volunteer groups have officially handed in their spades and shears, after 17 years of tending a public garden that helps put food on the table of struggling locals. Man...