Newsletter Issue 5 – December 2022

Welcome to our fifth issue of It’s All About Māngere Bridge, our Friends of the Farm community newsletter.

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Below you will find a list of our online versions of the articles from this issue. Enjoy!

Newsletter Issue 5 (Dec 2022) Article List

Restoring the mauri of our Maunga

December 7, 2022

Pūriri, nīkau, kōwhai, kāramuramu (coprosma) and wharariki (mountain flax) are just some of the native species planted on Te Pane o Mataoho during this year’s planting season.

December 6, 2022

Ten years of making a difference in Māngere Bridge, a reflection on achievements and looking ahead.

December 6, 2022

An update on the services and objectives of this important community asociation.

December 6, 2022

Meet Rasheed, a longtime local working in the Māngere Bridge Hammer Hardware.

December 6, 2022

January, February and March are our true summer months when the garden flourishes. Kelly from Whenua Warrior

November 28, 2022

We always knew Ambury Regional Park was outstanding. Now it’s official!

December 10, 2021

We help you reduce Christmas waste and recycle as much as you can with some ideas that you may find useful.

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.
Tonnes of eWaste Collected at Ecofest – Māngere Bridge eWaste Day 2025

Over six tonnes of e-waste was collected at our very own Ecofest eWaste recycling day…
Māngere Bridge Repair Café #9 was so fine!

A jacket turned into a sleeveless vest, a 13 year old favourite suitcase repaired, a 65-year-old Kenwood mixer running again and more at our 9th Repair Café…
Kiwi Esplanade and Mangroves- Update for Residents 2025

An update for residents on mangrove management in our Māngere Bridge area…
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!
Preserves Workshop

We are always looking for ways in which we can bring people together, with a common interest, to learn new skills, and how we can utilise the resources we have, as in knowledge and in this case feijoas.
Wash Against Waste

Battery and blister pack collections are growing steadily each month as more of our community become aware of the service at the library. Be sure to tell your friends and family…
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.
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.
Got Any Blisters? I mean Blister Packs…

Battery and blister pack collections are growing steadily each month as more of our community become aware of the service at the library. Be sure to tell your friends and family…
Papua New Guinea Pidgin Language Week Celebration

Recently Mangere Bridge Library held a special event to celebrate the first Papua New Guinea (PNG) Pidgin Language week. PNG is the most linguistically diverse country in the world and Pidgin is a commonly used dialect.