In a bid to grow employment within Whanganui's Castlecliff community, a tunnel house has been erected in the Matipo St community garden.
For the past few years the community garden has been a learning pit for Land Based Training horticulture students - now it's expanded.
Matipo Community Development Charitable Trust chair Rosemary Rippon said basically the trust wanted to provide the students with the opportunity to move into the workforce.
"The idea of having this tunnel house is that we can grow plants, in greater quantity, for various community projects," Ms Rippon said.
She said the trust planned to work with Horizons District Council, the Whanganui District Council, Progress Castlecliff and other community initiative groups in a bid to gain contracting work for the locals.