Many of you will be aware of the Food Bill that is due to be passed through Parliament shortly after the summer holidays. This Bill directly effects Ooooby and its members.

'In a nutshell, if the new Food Bill is passed then 'unexempted' trading of homegrown food could be treated as a criminal offence attracting fines of up to $100,000 and 5 years imprisonment.  That means, if a person or corporation has motivation to prevent you from sharing food between neighbours and friends, they could use this law (along with a well argued accusation and fistfuls of money), to send in privately contracted indemnified Food Safety Officers' to search and stop operations at your premises without a warrant and also to gain a warrant to search your private home on grounds of suspicion of related documents…

Next session: Thursday 1st December 7.00pm - 8.30pm. 

Topic: Getting 'Gifty' with the Garden 

Grey Lynn Community Centre.

510 Richmond Road, Grey Lynn, Auckland.

Cost: Koha (recommend $5-$10)

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Let's get Creative for Christmas. This will be a fun get together to learn how to make some nice gifts from and for the garden. 

We wil make 'seedbombs' which can be fun and educational gifts, and are fun for kids too.

If you have any gifty garden…