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Miramar Prison Garden

Growing food and history for over 130 years

Located at the top of

Mātai Moana / Mt Crawford, on

Te Motu Kairangi / Miramar Peninsula, in Wellington, New Zealand.

Visitors and new members welcome

Miramar Prison Garden Beehive

Mataimoana Trailhead map.jpg

Explore

Grab a trail map and explore the lands beyond the garden.

Contact

1 Main Road, Maupuia, Wellington 6022, New Zealand

miramarprisongarden@gmail.com

Miramar Prison Garden historic greenhouse

Garden grub: Kate's cauliflower & carrot soup

Garden grub: Kate's cauliflower & carrot soup

On the last Sunday of every month we have a working bee where volunteers gather at the garden to take care of important maintenance or...

Water resilience for a thriving community

Water resilience for a thriving community

This past summer has really shown us here at the garden the importance of improving how we use and manage the precious resource that is...

A kēreru-eye view of the gardens

A kēreru-eye view of the gardens

Local drone-ographer Matt Poynton took some amazing footage of the garden, showing just how expansive and diverse the site is.

Latest from the Garden Diary

Sunlight through the storm in the puriri garden.

Children's garden plot

Habitat for Life by local artists Manju Tomar and Ruth Robertson Taylor

Inside the greenhouse

Dog in a playhouse.

Alison and team feeding visitors with flower petals and honey from the garden's resident bees.

Making seed bombs

Delicious coconut jellies with edible flowers.

Kate welcomes visitors to the Nature Play Day

Making seed bombs

What could be sweeter than petals with honey?

Natural paints

Joakim Liman sharing his knowledge of the biodiversity of Matiamoana.

Feeding the masses.

What the peninsula probably looked like before human settlement.

Henri and one of her cows.

Visitors

Our resident bees, dressed up for the occasion.

Making seed bombs

Cows

Child in bee suit holding a bee

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