Category: EVENTS
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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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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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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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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.
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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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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.
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Ambury Riding Centre Car Boot Sale and Family Fun Event
Friends of the Farm were busy at the recent Ambury Riding Centre event and collected 51kgs of rubbish…
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Celebrating Matariki – the Moonlight Lantern Walk
Families gathered at Ambury Farm Park during Matariki weekend to make lanterns & enjoy a moonlit walk to the Mānukau foreshore.