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2024 Winter Repair Café – Records Broken
We wondered, why do skilled locals volunteer their Saturday mornings to diagnose faults and mend household items? Repair Cafes are a worldwide movement, gaining in popularity each year as people try to reduce waste being sent to landfill and repair damaged household items.
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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…
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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.
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Making Community Connections
Thanks to the variety of local community events and workshops, many new connections are made. Here are only a few…
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Family Fun as 100’s enjoy our Matariki Lantern Walk 2024
Friends of the Farm hosted another very successful Matariki lantern walk over the weekend. More than 250 people enjoyed bangers, lantern building, an adventure walk under a starry night and hot chocolate!
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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…
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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!
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Kiwi Esplanade Mangrove Update from Friends of the Farm
Information on mangrove management in our Māngere Bridge area…
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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…
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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.