Category: Friends of the Farm
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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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We Love Libraries!
These days, libraries are vibrant places that are the centre of communities. In addition to books and magazines, they offer activities to suit every age group, from babies and preschoolers’ music sessions to school holiday programmes to computer assistance for older adults…
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It’s a Stitch-Up!
The Mangere Bridge Library Knitting Group was formed 12 months ago and has grown since to include a variety of handwork, such as crochet, cross stitch, and felting. It’s more accurately known as the ‘Craft Group’…
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Cleaning Our Foreshore
Socks, shirts, bottles, cans, food wrappers, pizza boxes and, surprisingly, lots of lollipop sticks. Caring locals getting stuck in to clean up our foreshore…
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Our 8th Repair Café
Repairs, lambs, yummy treats and community spirit abounded at our 8th Repair Café…
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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!