Waiheke Resources Trust
  • Home
  • About WRT
    • Our People
    • Contact Us
  • Get Involved
    • Volunteering
    • Internships
    • Jobs
    • Newsletter
    • Living Sustainably
  • Projects
    • Beach Ambassadors
    • Composting
      • Compost Co. Customers
    • Kai Conscious
      • Kai Gardens
      • Waiheke Food Map
    • Love Our Wetlands
    • Marine Education Initiative
    • Waiheke Waterways
    • Zero Waste
      • Wine Cap Drop Offs
  • Events
    • ECOFEST 2023
    • Neighbours Day
    • Plastic Free July
  • Sustainability Centre
    • Centre Venue Hire
    • Bike Box
    • Ecostore Refillery
  • Home
  • About WRT
    • Our People
    • Contact Us
  • Get Involved
    • Volunteering
    • Internships
    • Jobs
    • Newsletter
    • Living Sustainably
  • Projects
    • Beach Ambassadors
    • Composting
      • Compost Co. Customers
    • Kai Conscious
      • Kai Gardens
      • Waiheke Food Map
    • Love Our Wetlands
    • Marine Education Initiative
    • Waiheke Waterways
    • Zero Waste
      • Wine Cap Drop Offs
  • Events
    • ECOFEST 2023
    • Neighbours Day
    • Plastic Free July
  • Sustainability Centre
    • Centre Venue Hire
    • Bike Box
    • Ecostore Refillery

All Posts

07/09/2017  |  By Mike In All Posts, Events, Kai Conscious

Updates from the Kai Conscious Cafe

A huge ka pai and a message for island businesses.

The Kai Cafe has now been up and running since April: in that time we have made hundreds  and hundreds of meals for our community with the help of local businesses who donate food stuffs at or just past their sell by date, goods that have damaged packaging, bruised or misshapen fruit and veggies, excess crops, dented canned veggies and milk products and more. We have also been given frozen bread from Francos bakery, rice and lentils from The Island Grocer and Gulf Foods, many items from Countdown and products from Sophia’s Choice. Extra food has arrived from vineyard restaurants and lots of local gardeners have popped in to give us their extra crops. Those leaving on holiday have donated the leftovers from their fridges and our diners have added the odd coin to buy extra oils, and basics.

All this rescued food has gone into humans not landfill and any scraps left over have fed our bokashi, compost and worm farms.

We never know what we will get on a Friday but so far our meals have fed on average around 40 people a week: our guests and cooks come from everywhere, some with babes in arms and  toddlers, teens, our wonderful international woofers, workers and holiday makers plus many retirees and passerbys. Everyone helps and chats to others, everyone gets a good meal made with love and kindness.

We talk, mingle, learn, share, eat and make music. Some of our dishes have been scintillating and tasty to the extreme while others have been slightly sabotaged by our less than reliable oven – all have been invented on the spot and mostly we are proud and happy to have saved this food and helped gift it back to our people.

A wonderful Cafe flag has been made by local artist Nora West (which we can’t get down, due to a knotty problem – any coconut or flagpole climbers welcome to assist us in this problem) and we are really enjoying meeting our island community. It’s also an educational thing: we learn loads of stuff each week by trying out new ideas and recipes.

We need you to feed you!

We think we are on to a good thing but we know it’s really just the tip of the food waste iceberg on our lovely island so please you have something you would like to donate, give us a text on 021 2421549 or ring us at the office 2915, pm us via fb at Kai Conscious or The Waiheke Sustainability Centre. Ask for Carys or Kathy to come take your foodie bits and bobs: a lot of people will be happy to be fed up with it!\

For reasons of health and safety we can not take raw or cooked meat products but everything else is covered under the Samaritan Act with no liability to those who donate foodstuffs.

 

Previous StoryThanks a Million! Wetlands get $43,000 boost
Next StoryKai Conscious Festive Dinner

Related Articles

  • Food Rescue Will Continue Over the Holidays 
  • KCC relaunch
    Kai Conscious Café delighted to spring back into action on September 23rd

Latest Posts

  • Food Rescue Will Continue Over the Holidays  Thursday, 15, Dec
  • KCC relaunch
    Kai Conscious Café delighted to spring back into action on September 23rd Monday, 5, Sep
  • Keeping Your Worms Happy and Healthy Monday, 24, Jan
  • It’s Just Rubbish Really Monday, 24, Jan
  • Wicked Science Wednesday Monday, 24, Jan

Categories

Tags

board games community planting day composting workshop kai conscious cafe septic tank workshop

Archives

  • December 2022
  • September 2022
  • January 2022
  • December 2021
  • November 2021
  • May 2021
  • February 2021
  • January 2021
  • December 2020
  • November 2020
  • October 2020
  • September 2020
  • August 2020
  • July 2020
  • June 2020
  • March 2019
  • June 2018
  • May 2018
  • February 2018
  • December 2017
  • September 2017
  • August 2017
  • June 2017
  • May 2017
  • February 2017
  • January 2017
  • November 2016

Who we are

  • About Us
  • Newsletter
  • Contact the Team

What we do

  • Get involved
  • Events
  • WRT Blog

About us

The Waiheke Resources Trust works to celebrate and protect all the resources we have already, and build capacity and knowledge in the community towards the creation of a resource-full future for all.

Find us elsewhere

Facebook
Facebook
fb-share-icon
Share
Instagram

Copyright ©2019 WRT. All rights reserved.

Do you have a minute?

Please fill out our quick survey about your website experience.

​​Ngā mihi nui

WRT Team