Building engagement and empowerment
Weather on the motorway was terrible with gale force winds and heavy rain and I debated the sense of leaving home. Got soaked doing Phillipa's chicken delivery but the boys were super excited and Hugo especially petted them inside their cage and couldn't wait to cuddle them. He snuggled the second one close and she …
Good day Tuesday starting with delivery of chickens to *Sengxay. A chat revealed they own a Thai restaurant in Papakura and have had a tough time through covid. Family of ten live there, including Mum who is about 60. He was pretty excited and said his sister was especially excited to be getting hens and …
I decided to shout Haare and myself to some nail therapy. Been about 4 years since I did this but she talks about stuff like this all the time and with a wedding for me tomorrow... and she's going to a parent/child christian camp this weekend it was a spur of the moment idea that …
The Love Food Hate Waste second chance kai sessions were held at Court Cres, Panmure at the Tamaki Community Church with a lovely group of 14 participants to most sessions. We started each session with an interesting fact to get us thinking from a waste perspective, acknowledging and learning a better way. Facts included a …
The day started at Sirikit's 'Kai korero'. They did an amazing job with several work stations going making things like fruit pies, hummus, pesto, omelettes, risotto and much more! I spoke about my fertiliser workshop next week. First home visit was Nicola who is super lovely, used lots of reo which was awesome. Second visit …
I collected Haare this am, as our first stop was right around the corner from where she lived. We delivered two chickens to Teresa. She was over the moon excited. Her husband is 80, a retired builder, and built the run from scrap materials found. Chickens will be very happy and safe in here and …
First stop was Carla's chickens which are doing great and she's excited to be receiving the veg beds now. Showed me her bokashi bin which is working perfectly and she's singing its praises. I had a second one to give her but had forgotten lids, duh....so I am dropping it off next week. Then *Naida. …
Weather was beautiful and Haare met me at our first stop, Maxine, for a garden pre visit. Haare knew Max from somewhere else and they chatted easily. She has a huge back lawn with a massive feijoa tree. She talked about getting a few more fruit trees in. She had missed the compost collective meeting …
Haare and I met at Debora's. She'd opted for tubs which was sensible as her road frontage is very steep and it would have been a mission to get a wheelbarrow down there. She also had a bokashi bin, but had never used it so I took mine away and I will follow up with …
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 …
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