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Love Your Maunga ki Te Pane o Mataoho / Te Ara Pueru / Māngere Mountain
Let’s come together to celebrate and protect our cherished Tūpuna Maunga. Bring your whānau and friends for a day of connection, learning, and fun!
Community Orchard Working Bee – Sat 7 Dec, 2-4pm
Interested in joining a keen local bunch of gardening enthusiasts? Come and join Friends of the Farm’s next orchard working bee on Sat 7 Dec 2-4pm.
Cleaning Our Foreshore
Socks, shirts, bottles, cans, food wrappers, pizza boxes and, surprisingly, lots of lollipop sticks. Caring locals getting stuck in to clean up our foreshore…
Our 8th Repair Café
Repairs, lambs, yummy treats and community spirit abounded at our 8th Repair Café…
Bee Supermarket at Ambury Farm Park?!
Our lovely local farm, Ambury Park was chosen by Woolworths as the best site for a pop-up supermarket for bees. Throngs of people have been calling in…
Māngere Bridge Seedling & Seed Swap Day
A first for FoF, this event was a huge success. More than just a seedling swap, there was lots of activities and goodies for green fingered locals.
Making Community Connections
Thanks to the variety of local community events and workshops, many new connections are made. Here are only a few…
The Recycling Bug is Generational
One Māngere Bridge family has caught the Recycling Bug and has already saved over 4000kg of metal from the landfill! This is their story…
Tonnes of eWaste Collected – Māngere Bridge eWaste Day 2024
Nearly five and a half tonnes of e-waste was collected on Sat 6 April at Friends of the Farm’s latest recycling initiative…
From MOMA New York to Māngere Bridge
At our recent Friends of the Farm hosted Sewing Bee, we were amused to see how most of us brought along the the same sewing machine. And we learnt a bit of history about that machine…
Keep Cups by Friends of the Farm
Helping change behaviour in our ‘hood, Friends of the Farm now have keep cups with their logo on them.
How do you treat your recycling bin?
Here is a handy video about what you can and cannot put in your recycle bin.
Repair Cafés do more than fix things!
As well as practical repairs Repair Cafés bring together our local community and here’s a great story about a budding electrician.
Ambury Riding Centre Car Boot Sale and Family Fun Event
Friends of the Farm were busy at the recent Ambury Riding Centre event and collected 51kgs of rubbish…
The Repair Café Movement Continues
Our 5th Repair Café in Māngere Bridge Library saw pleanty of locals visit with items for repair. The usual foot traffic in the Library was increased by 200 people!
A Lovely Autumn Day for Tree Planting
Sunshine, outdoors, a working bee, tree planting, sausage sizzle wastewise education. Locals caring for Māngere Bridge.
Waste, Recycling and Rehoming Directory
Want to get rid of your clutter in the most eco-friendly way? Use our handy online tool to find the best place for it!
Māngere Bridge Repair Café winter 2023
It was a busy Saturday morning at Māngere Bridge Library recently when local group Friends of the Farm (FOF) ran another Repair Café
Food Scraps Collection in Video
Check out videos explaining the Food Scraps program – created by Auckland Council
Māngere Bridge Community Orchard Working Bees 2023
Next: Sat 2 Dec 2-4pm – come visit our Orchard and growing Food Forest to enjoy the fruits of our labour (literally) and some give the trees some TLC.
Locals learn grafting & cutting at community orchard workshop
What a beautiful afternoon we enjoyed, an enthusiastic group, gathered under the shade of the feijoa trees.
Newsletter Issue 5 – December 2022
Presenting our fifth issue of It’s All About Māngere Bridge, our Friends of the Farm community newsletter.
Ambury wins Outstanding Park Award
We always knew Ambury Regional Park was outstanding. Now it’s official!
Important information for cat owners around Ambury Regional Park
Reminding Māngere Bridge local cat owners how we can help support the marvelous shorebird and wildlife sanctuary at our doorstep…
Recycling Plastic Plant Pots is easy now!
Robyn tell us how things have changed for the better with respect to dealing with seedling pots & plastic trays.
Ambury Regional Park planting day – 10 schools together!
Te Iti Kahurangi Kāhui Ako is a community of ten schools who came together on a sunny Wednesday…
The First Crossing – A history of the Māngere Bridge
An intriguing history of multiple crossings between Onehunga and Māngere Bridge penned by local scribe Robyn
Fixing to fix, repair with care – Māngere Bridge Repair Café
Bikes, lamps, clothing, pillowcases, books, soft toys, heaters, timers, scissors, knives, loppers, tablets and fans were among the items brought back to life at our Repair Café.
“Anything with a Plug” – Computer Recycling
Friends of the Farm visits this innovative business making great strides in e-waste recycling. FoF scribe Robyn summarises…
Best Bangers in the ‘Bridge – Rewarding Our Volunteers
It’s official. The sausages were sensational at the Ambury planting days last year. And the word from this year’s volunteers is that they are STILL sensational!
CARING
- family fun events
- foreshore, mountain and farm clean ups
- fun for older residents
CONNECTED
- community picnics and conversations
- community orchard & food forest
- storytelling & workshops
WASTEWISE
- supporting zero waste events
- food scraps education
- reducing household and Māngere Bridge village waste
COMMUNITY
- encouraging a feeling of belonging
- making a difference to our fellow beings
- supporting each other