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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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Māngere Bridge – It’s a Hive of Wastewise Activity!
Friends of the Farm members have been busy bees this month, buzzing around, running 3 different working bees. An orchard working bee, a mangrove working bee and a sewing bee!
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Village Lights Festival 2025
Two massive light installations transformed Bill and Naomi Kirk Park in Māngere Bridge village into a magical looking place…
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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…
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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…
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Kiwi Esplanade and Mangroves- Update for Residents 2025
An update for residents on mangrove management in our Māngere Bridge area…
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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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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.
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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…
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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.