Author: Colin
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Perfect Weather for our Aug Orchard Working Bee
Another lovely day in early August saw around 12 hardy souls enjoying the sunshine and braving the chilly breeze to complete a number of jobs that have been on the waiting list for a while…
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Great Turnout for our June Orchard Working Bee
The sun was shining, it was not raining (for a change) and there was no wind! Perfect weather for a working bee!…
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The 3 R’s on show at our 10th Repair Café
Repair Cafes are all about recycling, repairing and reducing waste with 53 fewer items headed to landfill…
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Māngere Bridge – It’s a Hive of Wastewise Activity!
Friends of the Farm members have been busy bees this month, buzzing around, running 3 different working bees. An orchard working bee, a mangrove working bee and a sewing bee!
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Village Lights Festival 2025
Two massive light installations transformed Bill and Naomi Kirk Park in Māngere Bridge village into a magical looking place…
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Tonnes of eWaste Collected at Ecofest – Māngere Bridge eWaste Day 2025
Over six tonnes of e-waste was collected at our very own Ecofest eWaste recycling day…
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Māngere Bridge Repair Café #9 was so fine!
A jacket turned into a sleeveless vest, a 13 year old favourite suitcase repaired, a 65-year-old Kenwood mixer running again and more at our 9th Repair Café…
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Kiwi Esplanade and Mangroves- Update for Residents 2025
An update for residents on mangrove management in our Māngere Bridge area…
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Community Orchard Budding Workshop
This literally takes a bud from a plant that you want to reproduce, and attaches it to a host plant. If you’re successful, it grows a branch of the original bud plant on the host. Amazing!
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Preserves Workshop
We are always looking for ways in which we can bring people together, with a common interest, to learn new skills, and how we can utilise the resources we have, as in knowledge and in this case feijoas.