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Garden Tours etc
hi gardeners. looks like I'm organising the Aro Fair this year, and I hear you would like to have an activity around the Kai o Te Aro gardens as part of the Fair. excellent. we'll be in touch soon about that.
I'm looking at organising a range of fu
Read more…The future of Wellington
Hey team,
Wellington City Council are currently seeking submission for their long term plan. At the last meeting we were talking about what community garden groups might like to see happen.
I thought I'd open this page fopr comments, and then we ca
Read more…Crop Guardians - sharing updates and queries
Hey folks,
This discussion is for anything related to crop guardians: someone who takes on the role of caretaking a particular vegetable or plant, learning about it, keeping an eye on when it should be planted, what it grows well with etc.
Go for
Read more…Aro Valley Fair
Hi everyone,
so the Aro Valley fair is next Saturday 26th.
We have a stall space booked. I intend to be there from 10am - 1pm, but will prob get there at 9.15ish to set up.
As discussed at the last meeting I reckon we go for:
a table (we
Read more…Wonderful weeds
Some food for thought. This list of the value of weeds is taken from the introduction to a book published 60 years ago - Weeds Guardians of the Soil written by Joseph Coconnouer after almost 50 years of teaching conservation & biology, and observatio
Read more…Revolving Fruit Tree Order
Bernandine from Mitre10 Mega Petone has gotten back to us about our fruit tree order. Some of these are unavailable. I have bold-underlined the confirmed ones, underlined the near-confirmed ones and italicised the unavailable ones on our original ord
Read more…Agreed systems and practices - "The Rules"
Here's my first stab at putting together "The Rules". I might have got some of them wrong, and I'm sure I've forgotten some. For example, I know there were a whole lot more conditions around using the Orchard.
Chip in with changes and additions.
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Potluck notes
Kai o Te Aro Potluck -8th July, 2010
Things we covered
Fruit Tree Order
The order will arrive by the end of July. An impromptu working bee may have to be arranged when this comes in. Some of the trees have come in and should be read
Read more…KotA poster
Hi all, here i the first draft of the text that will go on the Kai o te Aro poster,
if you have time, please have a read and give some feedback.
ngā mihi
Charles
Kai o te Aro
Kia ora, Welcome to Kai o te Aro,
We are a group of locals passio
Read more…Next working bee
Hi folks,
I have seen in our email that some (but prob not all) our fruit trees could be ready to pick up in the next few days.
What are people's thoughts on us picking up the some/few that are there this Sunday morning to plant at our working bee
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Summer planting
Hi all. If you have, or are thinking about planting something new in the garden this summer before our first meeting. Please let us know what it is, and where it is going here :)
Read more…RATS!!
Well, after Wayne brought the groups attention to the rats that he has found taking residence in our secret garden's compost bins, we took a couple of actions,
- moved the giant compost pile (from the original weeding!) to the orchard.
- Put a wire
Working Bee May 16
Hi all,
I've got some ideas of what we could do this Sunday May 16.
I spent a gift voucher at the garden shop. Kay talked me into getting some more NZ cranberry plants and a range of herbs, we also have some spare herbs. Make a sort of hedgy garden
Read more…Shady Edible Garden?
If a shady site comes up I might be interested in doing an edible shade garden, mainly because a lot of people in the valley have shady sections, it might be good to demonstrate that there are (some) tasty nutritious plants that will grow in the shad
Read more…Our lovely orchard - trees
Kia ora koutou, lets start planning our orchard. We have two orchard zones - the main area 56m2 - the line of trees around the back of the carpark 18 (lineal) m Lets start listing here what trees (fruit and nut) we would like to have in our orcha
Read more…Public fruit tree petition
Hello Here's an online petition for Wellington City Council to plant more fruit trees. www.wellington.govt.nz/haveyoursay/e-petitions/ep/details/93
Read more…Participatory Mapping Project Update
Hi all, I promised an update of the mapping project In the last workshop we covered. 1. Introduce GIS 2. Explore virtual Aro Valley 3. Discuss map purposes/options 4. Outline border Purposes According to my notes we are interested in maps that:
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