Building engagement and empowerment
Tara recently presented her Masters Project on Reindigenising Regeneration. This is a project that focuses on building Mana Motuhake in the community to lead their own regeneration. With additional funding from her fellowship, Atlantic Fellows for Social Equity - AFSE, she will be leading our ongoing design sessions to plan out how we move the …
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Food Scraps is an Auckland Council Waste Management System that is rolling out throughout Auckland. We are supporting this rollout in three ways: Community Engagement - Sharing knowledge using the Kumara Vine concept Creating a kumara vine of champions throughout our communities that engage and teach our whānau how to grow their knowledge and skills …
I was met by Bashir as Tabbusum was at study. He was lovely and said he would relay everything to Tabussum. When we first visited Tabussum she had shown me the front door area which was about 4 sq metres. It was the south side and with a higher hedge, looked like it gets no …
I had fun and games in the morning. With just one cat cage that would only fit 2 hens in, I had prepped a cardboard box for the second pair, but after struggling for 20 mins plus to get one into the box, and then the second one, without one or both escaping, I woke …
With Covid and the wet weather, all gardens are delayed now till mid August. Nothing much grows through these mid winter wet months so growing time is not really lost. This week I visited Tewai who is in an amazingly large beautiful section across the road from the reserve and water. It is very tidy …
I had just three pre visits today with the afternoon bookings being postponed. Tabbusam is from India and is lovely. She first showed me a tiny 1 x 3m space at her front door on the damp and shady side. I didn't feel it was a great space for chickens, so she then took me …
Today I visited Shannon first who is very easy to work with. She has gardened before by just digging up some of her lawn, but never had any tools, a raised garden or really good soil. Her dog had been a pain pooing wherever she gardened, so we are exploring options to keep him out. …
My first visit of the day was Rose's planting. Her garden was set up a few weeks ago but with whanau commitments and covid out of the way I could finally come in to plant. She had a 9 and 10 year old there whom she had whangaied when they were babies and she is …
Seven visits planned for today but already had one postponed first thing. First up *Ailana and *Makamae, who came through Kesi and live almost opposite each other. Both have quite a bit growing wild and untended, which is a great way to garden in my opinion. At this point mostly taro and kūmara, from which …
My first call is Rose who is just lovely and very keen to learn as much as I can show her. They have a huge section and have been there almost 60 years! Lots of invasive weed issues from neighbouring properties. I was able to identify most of these and we talked about handling ones like …
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