Building a Resilient, Sustainable, and Thriving Community for the Future
This week we have 3 sessions:
Priority tasks:
This week we have 5 sessions to choose from. They’re all fun but don’t miss the Sunday 12.30- 2 Greenhouse celebration, seedling sale and shared kai pizza oven.
Last week we had an amazing treat from the Whenua Warrior Wahine, Kelly, Holly and Ayla who ran the Maramataka workshop supported by Auckland Council Waste Minimisation Fund. It was fantastic to host them at the garden where they shared their knowledge of gardening via the moon which I’m sure will benefit the garden and everyone who came alone.
Other events coming up:
We have 3 sessions this week and a couple of fun events to put in your October calendar.
This week we have composting to do, do a weeding blitz, prepare the potato bed, put up tomato support frames, harvest lettuce, swedes, purple sprouting broccoli and the last of the wong bok.
And coming up:
We are really excited to introduce the first of our seasonal workshops run by Kelly Francis/ Whenua Warrior:
Saturday October 17th (election day) 10.30-12.30pm.
Come early for a welcome cuppa before we start.
“Maramataka, Gardening Via the Moon”, Koha for non garden members.
Sunday 25th October (Labour weekend) 10.30- 12.30.
Monthly working bee. Followed by 12.30- 2pm glass house celebration with shared kai.
This week we offer four sessions:
Here our links on Facebook and Growing Point.
This is the whakatauki on the garden’s welcome wall.
Nāu te rourou, nāku te rourou, ka ora ai te iwi- With your food basket and my food basket the people will thrive.
This week we have 3 sessions with booking essential.
We still need to limit numbers to 10, so you need to book in for these, some are nearly full so email us back to confirm if there is space:
If you have booked in to come on site you need to sign in with the covid tracker app and wear a mask. We won’t be sharing food together yet until the level drops.
Mā te wā
Spring means the garden is bursting into life with new growth and blossoms everywhere.
We now have a covid tracker ap poster by the seed house, pls scan in when you arrive.
We have 3 sessions this week, if you’d like to come along you need to book in as we’re limited to 10 people per session.
Auckland Transport (AT) plans to make it safer and more accessible for people to walk and ride a bike along Point Chevalier Road, Meola Road and part of Garnet Road as well as improve public transport connections. Please see the latest update to the Point Chevalier improvements project here.
Here is the July events calendar so you can put things in your diary, very excited that on Sunday 26th we’ll fire up the pizza oven again for a winter lunch share kai 1-2 (weather dependent) after we’ve done some mahi at our monthly working bee 11-1pm.
Learning opportunities
If you haven’t already, check out the Growing Point You Tube Channel and pls subscribe, we need 100 subscribers to get better channel options.
