Building engagement and empowerment
Our Love Food Hate Waste 2024 project consisted of four workshops with a group of local Home Educated whānau. The workshops were inclusive for all ages and interactive so as to have the participants actively learning alongside each other. Each workshop consisted of sharing tips and tricks on how to save money, eat better and …
Today was a seed raising workshop at Faith Family Church hall, we had 13 adults and 5 children attend and it all went very well. I had a list of things I wanted to get through in this workshop but as always like to be guided by the participants' questions and interests. Thrown in today …
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Today's workshop was a little bit different, we had a group of our beautiful whānau come together that have been on our garden and chicken mentoring programmes. We shared challenges and aspirations, problem solved together and celebrated our achievements so far on this journey. These whānau have now completed their mentoring time and will continue on …
Another busy day. I visited Roxy for a seedlings install and let her know I'd heard from a good source that she was a smooth mover at a dance party! She laughed and said she'd had a good time. We got her seedlings in and she said hubby was very interested to see this development. …
Big day today so we started out early with Lorenzo waiting for me and the fenced area was mostly made from old pallets as we had discussed. Some he had sideways (which are shorter) and some end on end (which are taller). I explained the shorter ones will need replacing/turning as it's a little too …
First up today I went to *Tanya. Her garden is looking great but she said the silverbeet just doesn't stop!!! We talked about sharing the harvest and at worst pulling off older eaten leaves and laying them down as mulch. I explained a couple of ways to use it up, like quiche and she shared …
Warning - contains a detailed description of an injured chicken. Wet day but I was lucky enough to have the rain easing each time I visited a whanau. I visited Max & Candace who have chickens. Candace had texted me as they have had a problem with 'Chrissie' the chicken who has had a 'weeping …
Continue reading "Overcoming challenges and learning along the way."
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