The Every bite team is looking for any excess tomatoes you might have for their workshop on the 11th of February.
Please reply only by email if you can help and we will pass on your details.
Nga mihi
Community activities
Kaitaia
community garden
Plants & Produce
Community Service
February 04, 2025
Spring is coming and we would love to see our plant stand brimming over with any spare seedlings or plants.
We get lots of new or weekend gardeners looking for start ups and advice and help so having seedlings to share and encourage more people to grow their own veggies fits great with the Trusts kaupapa of caring for everyone and everything.
If you do drop any plants of at the centre, please do leave you name so we can ensure you get your time credits.
Thank you
Garden
Community Service
Plants & Produce
supplies
August 20, 2024
Has anyone got little self seeded Camelia plants under their established bushes? Ideally pink or red ones? I'd love to come by and dig some up for transplanting to our place. I have plenty of the white camelia sinensis (tea plant) but would love to add some color. Many thanks!
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kaitaia
Wanted
gardening
Garden
Plants & Produce
July 30, 2024
Need help planting manuka in retired paddock. We've got another 150ish we need help getting in the ground.
Maunu near the golf course.
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Plants & Produce
Gardening
Whangārei
July 12, 2024
Kia ora Timebankers!
Our community garden is not a community garden without a community.
Are you interested in sharing your knowledge and experience, and learning from others in a garden context?
Are you interested to learn how to grow your own (organic) food?
Are you keen to just help out for a couple of hours in the garden on a Tuesday or Thursday morning, and take fresh organic food home?
Do you just want to come along to chat about gardening and maybe bring some questions?
Our garden is open to all.
If you have any questions or want to express interest in joining us, please message us by replying to this request!
The garden is behind Kaitaia Community House at 12 Puckey Ave, and open sessions for volunteers are Tuesday and Thursday mornings from 8-10AM (summer hours) or 9am - 11am (Winter hours). If that time doesn't work for you but you're still keen to come down, send us a message, and we'll see what we can do!
Health & Wellbeing
Health & Wellbeing
Help at Home
Diet & Nutrition
Garden
Plants & Produce
June 26, 2024
I love roasted sweet chestnuts, does anyone have a tree producing now or in the next few weeks? Happy to come and pick them up. Thanks :)
Other
Plants & Produce
food
kaitaia
Wanted
April 03, 2024
Help weeding, general garden cleanup
Nice river and big waterhole to cool off after 🥰
Help at Home
gardening
Plants & Produce
kaeo
January 22, 2024
Kia ora,
This is an ongoing, longer request for support establishing part of a wildlife corridor between the Pukenui and Otaika forests. We are regenerating bush on our property in Maunu, situated between the two reserves. Our priority is converting ~4 hectares of kikuyu-infested paddock into native bush. We've started planting ourselves, but we are going to need help.
The long-term plan is to get the property protected in perpetuity as a QEII trust to preserve as wildlife and native bush preserve. The first step is replacing the grass with native plantings.
What we are looking for to help make this happen:
*Plants - Particularly
pioneer species like manuka, kanuka, large harakeke, cabbage trees, Pittosporum crassifolium/karo, whau, red mapou, makomako, lacebark, mahoe, five finger, etc. Do you have a flat of manuka or kanuka seedlings? That can help! Splitting or removing a native? Send it our way! We also have shady marshy areas of paddock which need reforesting.
*Mulch - We'll need heaps of mulch to protect our new plantings. Do you know where to get some? Will you have some? Can you dump some here? Unfortunately we don't have a truck for pickup.
*Planting - Assuming we can get the requisite plants and mulch, we'll need help getting them in the ground. This is primarily a wintertime activity.
*Money? - We've reached out to lots of departments and organizations about grants and funds to get any plants or mulch. Almost everyone is tapped out, or waiting until they get new guidelines for funding next year. We've signed up for notifications for a lot. We've also put in inquiries with private companies that share costs. Another option is crowd-funding through the community, but we're not currently pursuing that until we've run through the other choices.
Thank you,
J & E
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Community Activities
Help at Home
Fundraising
Garden
Plants & Produce
August 07, 2023
I'd love to have
freshly picked, seasonal flowers
to dry and enjoy in my home. If you have some to spare and would like to earn timebank credits for them then please message me. I am happy to collect from Whangarei area.
Other
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Free Stuff
Plants & Produce
April 26, 2023