All Articles
Here is a list of all our articles in order of date published. To see a list of all the categories, click here.
A Lovely Autumn Day for Tree Planting
Sunshine, outdoors, a working bee, tree planting, sausage sizzle wastewise education. Locals caring for Māngere Bridge.
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“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…
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Food Scraps Collection in Video
Check out videos explaining the Food Scraps program – created by Auckland Council
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One of the largest food scraps collections roll-outs in Australasia begins
Auckland Council’s food scraps collection service is about to roll out to about 500,000 households over the coming months
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Autumn Orchard Working Bee – Mulching, Weeding and Feeding
Pruning, collecting & harvesting, thinning, weeding, digging, filling, sharing, enjoying and eating.
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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…
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Easter Clean-up Pop-up Event 2023
Always an enjoyable event for families, collecting litter and exploring the shorelines – some of our little helpers get side tracked by the crabs, but this is all part of what makes it fun
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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.
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Our 3rd Repair Café – locals helping locals
Another successful day with locals helping locals keep items from the landfill by repairing them. Genius
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Moth Plant Pod Competition 2023
Help your community and te taiao and win up to $500 in prize money!
Registrations open 9 March 2023 and close midnight 6 April 2023.
Repair Café Nov ’22 – 68 Items Saved from Landfill
Our Repair Cafes are proving popular as locals thronged to have items repaired at the Māngere Bridge Library. 91 items were examined and 68 were saved from landfill.
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Restoring the mauri of our Maunga
Pūriri, nīkau, kōwhai, kāramuramu (coprosma) and wharariki (mountain flax) are just some of the native species planted on Te Pane o Mataoho during this year’s planting season.
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Christmas donations welcome
Māngere Bridge Neighbourhood Support are doing their Christmas present drop off with Police again and would like to make it really special by delivering hampers also.
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Friends of the Farm turns 10!
Ten years of making a difference in Māngere Bridge, a reflection on achievements and looking ahead.
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Māngere Bridge Residents & Ratepayers
An update on the services and objectives of this important community asociation.
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Our People – Rasheed Ahmed
Meet Rasheed, a longtime local working in the Māngere Bridge Hammer Hardware.
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Summer planting tips from Whenua Warrior
January, February and March are our true summer months when the garden flourishes. Kelly from Whenua Warrior
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Newsletter Issue 5 – December 2022
Presenting our fifth issue of It’s All About Māngere Bridge, our Friends of the Farm community newsletter.
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Ambury wins Outstanding Park Award
We always knew Ambury Regional Park was outstanding. Now it’s official!
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Māngere Pony Club Show Cross Event
Riders from all over the Auckland region converged on the club with floats, horses and supporters for a big day out – all wonderfully Wastewise.
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World Clean Up Day 2022 at Māngere Bridge
World Clean Up Day was celebrated in Māngere Bridge with a “pop up clean up” organised by Friends of the Farm
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Newsletter Issue 4 – September 2022
Welcome to the fourth issue of our Friends of the Farm community newsletter.
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Māngere Bridge: a sanctuary for shorebirds
Māngere Bridge is located on the shores of the aptly named Manukau Harbour. In te reo Māori, ‘Manukau’ translates to ‘settling birds’. With its shallow tidal flats, the harbour is
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Our People – Maioha Walker
Kia ora, I’m Maioha. I’m a local resident and student volunteer for the Māngere Te Ara-rata Stream Team. My dad, Clint, also volunteers and serves on the Stream Team committee.
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Local website a new way to stay in the know
Friends of the Farm have developed a website called ‘It’s all about Māngere Bridge’
DetailsSpring planting tips from Whenua Warrior
Kelly from Whenua Warrior says, “It’s time to prepare your garden beds for spring planting!”
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Recycling Right – an update
Friends of the Farm has recently upgraded the recycling station at Māngere Bridge Library.
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Māngere Bridge Village Update
New park benches, a permanently installed ‘Whale Tail’ sculpture, and a CCTV upgrade are three of the latest projects completed in the Māngere Bridge Village
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Māngere Bridge Business Directory
We have created an online Business Directory to help Māngere Bridge locals keep it local.
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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
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A New Addition to Naomi & Bill Kirk Park
Naomi & Bill Kirk Park now has a new artwork – a piece of the old Māngere Bridge.
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Ngā Hau Māngere- the new Māngere Bridge
Late 2022 saw the opening of Ngā Hau Māngere, the new Māngere Bridge
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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…
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Events Calendar
We have developed an events calendar for Māngere Bridge, where locals can add local events, hui (meetings), classes, important dates, sports club registrations – any event you would like the
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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.
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FoF Community Orchard Working Bee April 2022
New fruit trees, a food forest, yummy home baking. Just some of the great things happening at our local Community Orchard.
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Throw Away? No way! Repair Café!
Repair Cafés are free events where local people bring in their broken or damaged items and local volunteers do their best to repair them.
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Our People – Garry “Hawkeye” Hawks
If you have enjoyed Bridge Park Bowling Club in the past 8 years, chances are you have met Garry “Hawkeye” Hawks
DetailsGetting to Zero Newsletter April 2022
Next time you visit the Library look inside the door on the right hand side
and you’ll see a set of stylish recycling collection boxes.
Māngere Kayak Day 2022 a success!
We had an awesome turn out of 97 people that we took exploring the Manukau Harbour via kayak…
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Make it a Wastewise Christmas this year
We help you reduce Christmas waste and recycle as much as you can with some ideas that you may find useful.
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Grafting progress for heritage tree project
An update from our Community Garden with great successes in grafting.
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Manukau Report Summary: Māngere Bridge
For the first time, all the State of the Environment monitoring programmes in the Manukau Harbour and its catchment have been brought together in one Auckland Council report.
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Carol from Kindy- retiring after 29 years
After 29 years at Māngere Bridge Kindergarten, we asked Carol to reflect on her journey…
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Te Puea Memorial Marae
Chair Hurimoana Nui Dennis gives us a brief history of this Local Treasure
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Our local CAB: here to help
The Citizens Advice Bureau (CAB) offers free, friendly, confidential, independent information and advice to anyone.
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RECYCLING RIGHT
We help you be a tidy Kiwi by listing places close to us in Māngere Bridge where you can take items for recycling, upcycling and repurposing.
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Neighbourhood Support & Community Cam
Tips on bringing neighbourhoods closer and keeping our community safer via Neighbourhood Support & Community Cam…
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Newsletter Issue 3 – October 2021
Welcome to the third issue of our Friends of the Farm community newsletter.
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Shops & Services in Māngere Bridge
Check out our list of shops and services available in Māngere Bridge. Support local!
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We help you be a tidy Kiwi by listing places close to us in Māngere Bridge where you can take items for recycling, upcycling and repurposing. (updated Sep. 2022)
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Caroline and Jane: Everyday Māngere Bridge heroes
Wastewise heroes who find time in their busy lives to make a meaningful contribution to our Community.
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Many Hands Make Light Work – Tree Planting at Ambury Farm
More than 100 locals gathered to volunteer their time & energy to help out at Ambury Regional Park.
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Māngere Mountain upgrades under way
Work has begun on major upgrades and enhancements to the track network at Te Pane o Mataoho/ Te Ara Pueru/ Māngere Mountain.
DetailsMoth Plant- What a Pest!
Friends of the Farm (FoF) partnered with the Māngere-Ōtāhuhu Local Board to run a competition to see who could collect the most Moth Plant pods.
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Reducing Plastic – one family at a time
Robyn tells us of the wastewise fun that was had at a Friends of the Farm beeswax wrap workshop…
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St James Church: Celebrating Life & Death
Māngere Bridge is a community with a story. A special chapter is the story of St James church.
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In Māngere Bridge various housing developments are underway or planned. Will we be able to retain our village feel?
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Our People – Sapati Apa-Fepulea’i
We meet Sapati Apa-Fepulea’i, a singer and music/ song writer who grew up in Māngere Bridge.
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See a new side of your mountain
The Māngere Mountain Education Centre sits within beautiful gardens on the side of Te Pane ō Mataoho on Coronation Road.
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Newsletter Issue 2 – May 2021
Welcome to the second issue of our Friends of the Farm community newsletter.
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The Central Interceptor
The Central Interceptor is New Zealand’s largest ever Wastewater Project. When completed in 2025 there will be a 14.7km long tunnel.
DetailsRachel: Everyday Māngere Bridge hero making a difference.
Finding creative ways to care for our environment, Rachel and her family walk their talk.
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Newsletter Issue 1 – Nov 2020
Welcome to the first edition of It’s all about Māngere Bridge, brought to you by Friends of the Farm.
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Living Locally Meeting #3
A summary of our final Popular Living Locally Meetings by Robyn Martin, FoF Storyteller
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Living Locally Meeting #2
Another great session at the Living Local evenings, read all about it here:…
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Community & Watercare
The Watercare Community Liaison Group now meets quarterly as a requirement of the company’s resource consent. Here are some recent updates.
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Welcome leadership from FreshChoice
We meet Shane and Marcella who are leading the great team at our local Supermarket.
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Tararata Stream
Did you know that, as Mangere Bridge locals, we live very close to a fish that’s rarer than a kiwi?
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Our People – Emily Muli
Meet Emily Muli, a talented entertainer who grew up in Māngere Bridge and attended Waterlea Primary…
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Living Local #1 – our first
On a warm spring evening 42 Māngere Bridge residents gathered keen to learn more about their community.
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Robyn’s Waste Journey
Our regular contributor and Friend of the Farm Robyn shares her wastewise story.
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Locals enjoy Manukau Harbour in kayaks
More than 50 people, mainly locals, enjoyed a kayak around our harbour…
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Old Mangere Bridge Timelapse
Check out this cool timelapse video of the beginning of the end for the old Mangere Bridge…
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Community volunteers looking after our patch
A bumper crop of mangrove seedlings led Friends of the Farm in Mangere Bridge to host a pop-up mangrove seedling pull.
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Birds of Māngere Bridge – the Dotterel
The endangered New Zealand dotterel is a regular around Māngere Bridge, particularly on the white shell islands of the Watercare Coastal Walkway
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Birds of Māngere Bridge
We celebrate the vast array of avian friends that visit our region with this section dedicated to the Bird of Māngere Bridge
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Friends of the Farm
Tēnā koutou, Malo e lelei, Talofa lava. Māngere Bridge is a great place to live, surrounded by natural taonga, maunga, harbour, farm, historic places and people. Our website is a
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