25 Sep 2023

Kai Cycle: Growing Kai in urban spaces

From Nine To Noon, 11:35 am on 25 September 2023

A group of Wellingtonians are striving to save food from landfill.

The composting initiative, Kaicycle, takes compostable scraps from homes and offices and recycles them into living compost. The collection method? Bicycles.

The team is also managing an urban farm on Newtown's Hospital Rd and is expanding its operation to door to door compost distribution service.

Kate Walmsley, Kaicycle's composting manager and Sylvia Lauris, urban farm manager join Kathryn in the Wellington studio. 

A woman deposits her food waste on to a composting pile.

Kaicycle gather food scraps from 200 households in Wellington city. Photo: