Offers Education

Garden tutoring

Qualified Horticultural tutor , can help you with ideas to demystify your backyards. Plant suggestions, how to improve soil , set up composting, worm farms. water effectively , what to plant for shelter, set up vege gardens . Don't do garden maintenance , body a bit broken for that but brain is still full of useful information backed with decades of experience So if you looked out the back door and went , Where do we start? Is this a good idea? I have no idea what I'm doing? what should I plant where? Where should I put the compost heap, chooks, pond, strawberries etc Can i grow vege in pots? Get in touch for some easy tips tricks I don't believe gardening needs to be hard

Garden Garden Education garden waste Food / Drink design

Eco and Permaculture Design - urban, rural, school, community groups, bio regional scale

Site assessment visits, 1 - 2 hours with you discussing your ideas, reading the landscape and your situation   Simple concept sketches to more complex designs, your project stages, budgets etc   Garden design focusing on edible landscapes, annual gardens, orchard and food forest areas, small animal systems Far North tree recommendations; timber, fruit, nut, shelter, natives, flowering hedgerows, best species, varietys, propagation info  Fruit tree pruning for natural form and high yield Native environments, stream care Weed action, strategies; organic and large scale options Perennial edible plant material available Bioregional whole landscape scale, landcare Kaitiakitanga in action   Building and renovation ideas - simple, practical Far North living, solar design, earth building methods, eco design   Hosting interested people at our place for an hours tour through to live-in working experience    Permaculture whole property design - low-maintenance and energy saving, smart access layout, driveways, water, energy, building sites, budgets Learnscaping environmental school projects - practical collaborative student, teacher and community design and implementation    I am passionate about creating harmonious and productive spaces to enjoy living and working in. I have over 30 years practical experience and offer Eco and Permaculture Design for small urban sections to large land areas. Give me a ring to discuss your project.

Consulting Education Help at Home Community Activities Tutoring / Mentoring Group Projects

Make a donation to the Community Fund

If you'd like to make a donation to the Community Fund for participating in one of our social events, or donate surplus timecredits please use this Offer to record your exchange. The Community Fund is used to pay timecredits to members for giving service in the community where there isn't a timebank organisation or individual to pay the credits. These are usually one off events like beach/street clean-ups etc. If you are involved with regular community work such as volunteering for a group, organisation etc have a chat with your local coordinator about the possibilities of getting your group/organisation signed up as an organisational member of Tai Tokerau Timebank.

Community activities Community Activities Education Community Service Work For Social Change

Community advisor

I have been living in an eco-village for 25years and a running a community in Greece for 6years and I have read widely on the tools and ways of setting up community. I understand the importance of non-violent communication and have trained in this, I have also trained in the decision making tool sociocracy.  I feel strongly that now is the time to live closer together and support each other.

Consulting Community Activities Education Community Service Special Projects Classes / Workshops

Event/workshop space Dargaville.

Have you got a small event or workshop in mind (around 30 people or less)? Come and use our space! We have a decent front lawn and indoor area with toilet and tea and coffee facilities.  Space is located at 15 Onslow Street Dargaville.  ***The time and event you have in mind will have to not clash with our classes or workday hours (mostly Mon-Fri, 9-5), as the space is normally an office for two employees. A board member or employee will have to be available and present, as our space has a lot of circus props in it.  

Community activities Recreation Education Classes / Workshops

Kaitāia - computer help

You made it to see this offer -- it can't be that bad :) For all other nuisances, I should be able to give you a hand, or at least help you figure out what the exact problem is. I'm currently using Windows, Mac, and Linux.

Admin and Tech help Education Business Services Technology Tech Support

Kaitaia - lessons on how to build/set up worm farms or bokashi bins

Hi, I love my garden and am passionate about passing on knowledge on resilience and self sustainability and hence am offering to help others learn how to build/set up worm farms or bokashi bins. Please ring me for further information.

Lessons Garden permaculture Education resilience

Kaitaia - lessons on how to make EM1 - bokashi starter

I make my own and am willing to teach others how to make your own starter from rice water and milk. Phone me for more information.

Lessons Education permaculture Garden

Need Tech Help? I Can Happily Advise About Problems, New Purchases, and Upgrades

Tech has always been my passion and I enjoy many projects involving it. From building my PC, to upgrading my laptops, converting old hardware into new useable objects, and more. I can happily help you figure out the difference between options for any tech-related purchases that you may be looking into. Just get in touch and I will do my best to help. Even if it is new to me I can quite easily get up to speed. I also use a wide range of software to do multiple things so can advise on such things as well.

Admin and Tech help Education Business Services Technology Tech Support Specialised Software Skills

New Plymouth: Whole food cooking - can teach with dairy-free, grain-free, refined sugar-free, vegan, raw, garden to plate

I like to create, cook and experiment with real food, whilst making things simple and achievable for people to do in their own homes. My style is whole food, plant based, seasonal garden to plate. I can help those with allergies, health conditions or just folk who like tasty nutritious food!  

Food / Drink Help at Home Health & Wellbeing Education Cooking / Baking Diet & Nutrition Tutoring / Mentoring

Kaitaia & surrounding areas: Upcycling/Fabric Craft Workshops
Group offer

We can host a creative upcycling/mending/making workshops for your group, class, community organisation, or bunch of friends. If there's a crafty skill you'd like to learn, just let us know & we can work towards providing a workshop to meet that need. You can come to Anō Anō and use the space with big cutting table, sewing machines, overlockers, and lounge area Our workshops are relaxed and fun, mistakes are part of the learning and creativity is encouraged!

Lessons Education Arts / Crafts / Music Classes / Workshops Classes & Tuition Upcycling

Japanese Lesson for beginner

I completed a Level 5 course on how to teach languages at a polytechnic in New Zealand. If anyone is keen to learn Japanese with me, let's study together! My class is for beginners. The lesson plan will include greetings, how to introduce yourself, how to order food in a restaurant, how to ask for directions, and more, all in Japanese. The first four lessons will be especially useful for traveling in Japan. I will speak Japanese as much as possible in my class, but I can also speak English.    

Lessons Education Classes / Workshops Japanese Learning Japanese

Hāwera - Breastfeeding Support: Phone Text or 1 to 1 support in person

I have completed a course in breastfeeding peer support, and have been breastfeeding all 4 of my own children. Happy to chat to you and support you in any way. If anything is above my knowledge and training, I have contacts with further knowledge whom I can talk to or get to visit you all free of $.

Health & Wellbeing Advocacy Child Care Help at Home Education Food

Climate Action Now - a community gathering for a just future
Group offer

Have you always wanted to be part of the solution, to build a just future for all, and realise that you can’t do it alone? If the answers are yes, then join us at our wānanga aimed to mobilise the community and grow climate action collectively. Climate Action Now will be a free, all day event with speakers and workshops focusing on some of the issues and solutions identified in Toitū Taranaki 2030. Our keynote speakers will be Prof Bronwyn Hayward, University of Canterbury, and iwi leader Mike Smith of Ngāpuhi and Ngāti Kahu. There will be three interactive workshops on: 1) energy and transport, 2) agriculture, food resilience and reforestation, 3) political and social transformation, education and mobilisation. More details are available on Climate Justice Taranaki website.

Other Kai Resilience Community Activities Education Community Projects science climate change economics energy Transport reforestation

Proofreading!

I'm one of those weird people who gets a buzz from language and correcting spelling, sentence construction and grammar.  If you have an assignment or an important document you want help with, give me a text.

Lessons Education Business Services

Kerikeri - Whangaroa "Strategies for Stress & Anxiety" Workshop for TTT members

This workshop can also be run across Northland upon request and depending on number of participants. Workshop participants will learn 5 proven and effective strategies to shift from un-resourceful emotional state(s) to calmer and more balanced feelings. If you have a group of people, can host us or are otherwise interested in such workshop (or other workshops from the programme "The Art of Living Well" do contact me (Barbara) Let's make 2024 the year of 'connecting' and PEACE "World Peace is an inside job"

Health & Wellbeing Education Business Services resilience whangaroa kaitaia Kerikeri hokianga

New Plymouth - Any help and anything related to education and support.

• Any help (garden, dog walk, house shifting, or need a hand) in and around Frankliegh Park. • Happy to help kids in Intermediate and secondary school level in subjects like Mathematics, Science and NCEA level subject selection • Also, involved in Adult Literacy programs and happy to offer any help (as a mentor)

Lessons Education ,Community Activities Tutoring / Mentoring Help at Home

Hawera; Apps, Facebook, Tech support

While I’m not super techie I know my way around smartphones, tablets, apps, Facebook, Marketplace, Trademe etc   I’m very patient especially with elderly…..I taught my 79yr old mum to use Facebook & she loves it :-D Would be happy to help you out with setup, what’s avail, how to use and anything you get stuck on. 

Companionship Companionship Education Business Services Computers / Technology Computer Support

Samsung smart phone tuition

I have recently learned to use a smartphone. I can give you patient tuition if you are a beginner with smart phones or want to upgrade your skills.

Lessons Education Technology

Help create a dairy free vegetarian kitchen including recipes

I can assist you making the transition to gluten free, dairy free and vegetarian/vegan cooking by suggesting what to stock in your kitchen. Will include recipes for scones, lemon curd, veggie loaf and more.

Health & Wellbeing Health & Wellbeing Education Help at Home Diet & Nutrition Classes / Workshops Food / Drink

Spanish conversation or tutoring

Hi there, I'd like to offer Spanish conversation and/or tutoring to the community. I'm not a native speaker but have a high level of written and spoken Spanish. I also have several years of teaching English as a second language experience to draw from. Happy to meet at my place in Takahue or around Kaitaia or video chat. Oscar is a native speaker and happy to help also.          

Lessons Education Arts / Crafts / Music Languages / Translation Tutoring / Mentoring Classes & Tuition

Health coaching, specialising in Diabetes T1 & T2 Fatigue & autoimmune disorders

If you have a chronic health condition I use a highly successful model for managing your journey to healing and wellness. I've lived with multiple chronic illnesses over the years and have lived the practices which I teach. The Integral model offers the broadest possible view of illness/wellness which means tapping into both inner and external resources, multiple healing modalities, support systems in the community and offered through various systems and can be used to address any illness. The potential for wellness is huge. It is all pretty simple and can be done according to each person's capacity. I work using the Zoom platform so no travel needed. 

Health & Wellbeing Health & Wellbeing Education Counselling Diet & Nutrition Tutoring / Mentoring

Project Support

Available to facilitate goal achievement via mentoring, coaching or simply sounding boarding.

Health & Wellbeing Health & Wellbeing Education Counselling Tutoring / Mentoring

Mentoring

Do you need someone to talk things over with? I'm available to provide a listening ear.

Health & Wellbeing Health & Wellbeing Education Tutoring / Mentoring Life coaching Counselling

Sauerkraut making

I can show you how to make this  delicious healthfood from cabbage Come and make it, or watch. It's fun to work together. Allow 1 1/2 to 2 hours. Bring a cabbage, about 1 kg or more, pink salt, chopping board, knife, wooden spoon, 1 litre jar and lid.

Help at Home Help at Home Health & Wellbeing Education Food / Drink Diet & Nutrition Classes / Workshops