Last year we ran some really excellent and successful workshops. One of these events was our Free Waste Educator training day, which ran on the 10th of November for anyone who wanted to learn more about volunteering at the Zero Waste Ostend Market and other Zero Waste events around the island. Our goal was to […]
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New Year, new season of Kai Gardens!
A new year calls for a new season of kai gardens! As we approach February, we are preparing to start sowing new seeds and we need your help! We are currently on the lookout for supplies and awesome volunteers that can help get stuck into planting and watering. Our gardens run on the mahi and […]
A Big Kai Gardens Thank You
We are wrapping up our first season of the Kai Gardens project as the summer grows ever hotter – there’s certainly no need for a greenhouse now! We still have a few more seedlings that need to find new homes, but it has been a fantastic pilot, and there are some thanks due before we […]
The Compost Co. Profiled by Baz Caitcheon
Waiheke local Baz Caitcheon of Bazzacam recently visited The Compost Co.’s site at Te Motu to see the team in action! Have a look at the fantastic video that he created, and hear from Prashanti and Kayleigh about how compostables and food scraps are being processed. The Compost Co. collects back-of-house food scraps and […]
Summer Seedlings Doing Well!
It’s only getting hotter, and as we head full swing into the heights of summer, it’s time to plant your tomatoes! Our Kai Gardens volunteers have been hard at work, and we now have a lovely range of heirloom toms, cucumber, cabbage, sorrel, celery, spinach, kale, kamo kamo and tomatillo ready to plant! We also […]
New Location for our Community Fridge!
Free food for all now available 24/7 We’ve just moved our community fridge outside to allow for round-the-clock access! Our fridge has proven extremely popular over the past year since we were able to install it thanks to Waiheke Local Board funding. Great news for those who are currently using it AND for those who […]
Seedlings for Sale!
Our Kai Gardens volunteers have been doing some amazing mahi this past month, and the greenhouse is doing wonders for our seedlings! Plenty of seedlings are ready to go out into people’s gardens – kale, pak choy, lettuce, broccoli, spinach, sorrel, cabbage – with more varieties like fennel, coriander and tomatillos soon to come! The […]
Seed Transplanting with Eddie Welsh
Here’s the follow-up to Eddie’s seed sowing tutorial – what to do with your seedlings once they’ve sprouted! This is the time to be growing your seedlings and sowing them for the summer months. Eddie demonstrates a couple of ways to transplant your seedlings, and explains how it works on a commercial level for those […]
Virtual Seed Sowing Tutorial with Eddie Welsh
Eddie Welsh is generously sharing his knowledge and experience to mentor our Kai Gardens volunteers. Here, he’s demonstrating a few ways to sow seeds, which is what we’ll be doing once we’re out of Alert Level 3. If you, too, are feeling that spring-time urge to germinate some seeds and get planting but need a […]
Plastic Free July 2020 aka Craft-fest
Mending, making, cooking and music! Our workshops turned up a great crowd of excited participants who were eager to learn some new tricks. We had heaps of interest from the community with pretty much all our events being filled up on the day- a sign that people were really keen to connect after our time […]