Project Strategy
The project philosophy is essentially one of recycling social and environmental resources. The strategy is to build on resources and space available, expand by developing required space into a community garden and learning facility supported by the Waitaki District Council (making required land available).

Objective
To renovate and equip an existing premises and allocate land to accommodate mentors and students/youth in order that they can practice skills that they have gained/learnt.

The blessing of the site/land.
On Monday the 15th of September 2008 Sis Dodd (Nga Tahu iwi, Te Runanga of Waihao) blessed the proposed site.

The Mara read as follows:

GATEWAY

E te whanu(family) we enter this gateway in the name of our creator/lord, earth (paptuanuku).

We have been entrusted with this good and fertile land, grant that we may so respect and use so that others may than us for what we give/leave to them, a community garden. Help us to share this goodness that surrounds us for poor and rich alike and bring  trust and friendship to all our different races.

Inspire our people with the most gentle rule of love and peace as they become involved with this important project. It is our desire to work together in peace and harmony with the land assigned to the Trust from the hearts and minds of those in authority, the Waitaki District Council.

O God of Earth and Sky, visit this land and bless it, enrich it, water it and bless its growth with your goodness.

May this place be like a safe haven in which people working the soil and planting the seed support and care for each other, share love and laughter, form new relationships, failures forgiven and strength renewed, gain support with patience when our work seems hard.

Kororia, Homore Hareruia ki a Ihoa nga mano, te kanhui Ariki, Te Arepa, Te Omeka, Piriwiritua, Hamuera tatu mai kit te kai arahi ke te Mangai, te tautoko mai I tenei mara mo enei iwi katoa I runga I te Ingoa o te Matua, Tama, Wairua Tapu me nga Anahera Pono, ko koutou nei hoki te timatanga me te whakaotinga mai of matou, Mangai hei tautoko mai Aianei akenei Amine.

Ka ruria e tatou tenei whenua, hei horoi atu I nga mea poke, a te rerewa a te tangata ranei, I runga I te Ingoa o te Matua, o te Tama, o te Wairua Tapu, Aianei ake nei Amine.

Glory to the Father and to the Son, and to the Holy Spirit, as it was in the beginning, is now, and shall be for ever, Amine.