Category: COMMUNITY
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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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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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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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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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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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From MOMA New York to Māngere Bridge
At our recent Friends of the Farm hosted Sewing Bee, we were amused to see how most of us brought along the the same sewing machine. And we learnt a bit of history about that machine…
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Keep Cups by Friends of the Farm
Helping change behaviour in our ‘hood, Friends of the Farm now have keep cups with their logo on them.
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The Repair Café Movement Continues
Our 5th Repair Café in Māngere Bridge Library saw pleanty of locals visit with items for repair. The usual foot traffic in the Library was increased by 200 people!
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Repair Cafés do more than fix things!
As well as practical repairs Repair Cafés bring together our local community and here’s a great story about a budding electrician.