Community Orchard Archives - About Māngere Bridge

Māngere Bridge – A Busy and Rewarding October

Friends of the Farm hosted 3 exciting events in October, all were focused on reducing waste, stretching resources, saving expenses and celebrating community cooperation & environmental care…

October 23, 2025

Compost Winter Workshop 2025

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…

September 10, 2025

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…

August 26, 2025

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!…

August 5, 2025

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!

May 15, 2025

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!

April 7, 2025

What do you do when you have masses of ripe peaches? Put the word out to see who wants some! A Heritage peach tree in Mangere Bridge had a bumper crop this year so the tree owner asked who wanted some.

February 26, 2025

2024 Volunteer Celebration and Thank You

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

December 16, 2024