Over 60 locals gathered recently to celebrate the end of another year of working together to make Mangere Bridge a caring, connected, wastewise community.  

Battery and blister pack collections are growing steadily each month as more of our community become aware of the service at the library. Be sure to tell your friends and family…

The Mangere Bridge Library Knitting Group was formed 12 months ago and has grown since to include a variety of handwork, such as crochet, cross stitch, and felting. It’s more accurately known as the ‘Craft Group’…

These days, libraries are vibrant places that are the centre of communities. In addition to books and magazines, they offer activities to suit every age group, from babies and preschoolers’ music sessions to school holiday programmes to computer assistance for older adults…

Recently Mangere Bridge Library held a special event to celebrate the first Papua New Guinea (PNG) Pidgin Language week.  PNG is the most linguistically diverse country in the world and Pidgin is a commonly used dialect.    

Socks, shirts, bottles, cans, food wrappers, pizza boxes and, surprisingly, lots of lollipop sticks. Caring locals getting stuck in to clean up our foreshore…

Repairs, lambs, yummy treats and community spirit abounded at our 8th Repair Café…

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…

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.

Thanks to the variety of local community events and workshops, many new connections are made. Here are only a few…

One Māngere Bridge family has caught the Recycling Bug and has already saved over 4000kg of metal from the landfill! This is their story…

Nearly five and a half tonnes of e-waste was collected on Sat 6 April at Friends of the Farm’s latest recycling initiative…

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…

Helping change behaviour in our ‘hood, Friends of the Farm now have keep cups with their logo on them.

Here is a handy video about what you can and cannot put in your recycle bin.

As well as practical repairs Repair Cafés bring together our local community and here’s a great story about a budding electrician. 

Friends of the Farm were busy at the recent Ambury Riding Centre event and collected 51kgs of rubbish…

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!

Sunshine, outdoors, a working bee, tree planting, sausage sizzle wastewise education. Locals caring for Māngere Bridge.

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!

It was a busy Saturday morning at Māngere Bridge Library recently when local group Friends of the Farm (FOF) ran another Repair Café

Check out videos explaining the Food Scraps program – created by Auckland Council

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.

What a beautiful afternoon we enjoyed, an enthusiastic group, gathered under the shade of the feijoa trees.

Presenting our fifth issue of It’s All About Māngere Bridge, our Friends of the Farm community newsletter.

We always knew Ambury Regional Park was outstanding. Now it’s official!

Reminding Māngere Bridge local cat owners how we can help support the marvelous shorebird and wildlife sanctuary at our doorstep…

Robyn tell us how things have changed for the better with respect to dealing with seedling pots & plastic trays.

Local Māngere Bridge resident Robyn Martin shares her story of discovering – and joining – Friends of the Farm

Te Iti Kahurangi Kāhui Ako is a community of ten schools who came together on a sunny Wednesday…

An intriguing history of multiple crossings between Onehunga and Māngere Bridge penned by local scribe Robyn

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.

Friends of the Farm visits this innovative business making great strides in e-waste recycling. FoF scribe Robyn summarises…

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!