Foraging for food in Christchurch's 'red zone' – video
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In New Zealand, where inflation and price increases have sent food prices sky-high, increasing numbers of people are turning to foraging to supplement their pantries. Foraging is popular in Christchurch, the largest city in the South Island, where devastating earthquakes in 2010 and 2011 saw large chunks of the city demolished. A ‘red zone’ was designated too unstable to rebuild upon, and 8,000 houses were demolished or removed. They have left behind a surreal tangle of abandoned cul de sacs, cracking footpaths, expanding meadows and gardens left to go wild