Category: Community Orchard
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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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That’s just peachy!
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.
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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.
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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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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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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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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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Grafting progress for heritage tree project
An update from our Community Garden with great successes in grafting.
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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.