Rose Pruning Workshop

Hayden Foulds (president of the Manawatū Rose Society and recent president of the NZ Rose Society) is visiting Ashhurst to prune the newly installed rose garden in the Ashhurst Triangle (across from the library) and we invite you to pop down with some gardening gloves and a pair of secateurs to learn from a local master.
Hayden is a highly accomplished rosarian, having gotten his start as a student at Ashhurst School!
This is a free workshop, with no registration needed. Saturday June 27th 1pm.

Chooks!

This is a beginner/intermediate level workshop on caring for chickens in a suburban environment.

$10 waged & $5 unwaged/student

You can register HERE

Emergency Preparedness

We have both the Palmerston North City Council and Manawatū District Council Emergency Management Officers joining us to speak on Emergency Preparedness for you and your whānau. This will be tailored to the most likely scenarios for our specific area. With adverse weather events increasing year on year, we really encourage you to make time for this. It is a free seminar, with afternoon tea provided.

Registrations can be made HERE

 

The RECAP Seed Library

We're about to do a big restock of the Seed Library so we thought we'd do up a quick guide. Check in at the Ashhurst Library (where the Seed Library station is located) as we have a whole lot of fresh, locally harvested seeds for your Autumn/Winter gardens.

The RECAP Crop Swap 2026

The RECAP Crop Swap is held on the first Saturday of each month (from February-November) at the Ashhurst Community Library (corner of Bamfield street and Cambride avenue in Ashhurst) from 11am-1pm. 

This is a sharing event where everything is free. 'Swap' is a slight misnomer as you are more than welcome to take without gifting and gift without taking.

Items suitable for the Crop Swap: excess vegetables/fruit from your garden, flowers, seeds, seedlings, plants (both indoor and outdoor), small trees, baking, gardening books or magazines. 

It's also a great spot to talk gardening with others!

All are welcome. 

 

 

Our projects, services and green spaces.

We recently created this info sheet collating our various endevours and it's great to see the community impact our group has.

Volunteers are RECAP and it is an honor to work in and alongside our community to improve the quality of life for both humans and our local environment in our lovely little corner of the world.

Ngā mihi nui to everyone who contributes, in big ways and small. 

 

The Ashhurst Sharing Shelf

The Ashhurst Community Library is home to the Ashhurst Sharing shelf. This is a place to share any excess food or gardening items. We ask that you please refrain from leaving any other items, and do not leave food products that need refridgeration, or that are past their best before dates.

This sharing shelf is attached to the garage in the library garden, just behind the picket fence and sheltered from the weather. This is to the left of the garden gates once you enter.

As part of its ongoing commitment to building resilience and engaging the community, RECAP members have created this facility and will oversee its use.  Please make use of the shelved with these requests in mind:

Share your excess
Reduce waste
Only take what you can use
Clean up rotting produce
Keep it tidy

Waste produce will be composted if not taken.  

Follow The Ashhurst Sharing Shelf on facebook for updates on what's on the shelf.

 

RECAP Seminars and Workshops

TO REGISTER FOR A CURRENT WORKSHOP, PLEASE GO TO THE HOME PAGE AND SCROLL DOWN.

Each year we aim to offer a range of workshops, seminars, talks and films that are grounded in the Permaculture ethics of Earth Care, People Care and Fair Share

Over the last few years we have run workshops on an ever increasing list of subjects. These are open to all, and are either free or well subsidised.

We run three annual workshops: summer pruning, winter pruning and composting.

Some of the workshops, seminars and volunteer opportunities we have offered: solar power, sourdough, seed harvesting & processing, seed sowing, foraging, espalier trees, public clean ups and stream cleaning, drought proofing your garden, natural building, rainwater tanks, backyard poulty keeping, beginner gardening, berm gardening, zero and low waste living, soap making and many, many more.

RECAP is committed to providing education around sustainability and resilience and dedicated to increasing community connectivity in Ashhurst and Pohangina.

Please email us on info@recap.org.nz if you would like to receive our monthly mail out, or like us on facebook to keep up to date with what we are offering

 

RECAP privacy statement

In order to provide you with information, we may request the following: your name, contact details & previous interactions with our organization. 

Providing this to us is optional. 

We keep your information safe by storing it securely and only allowing one staff member to access it for communication purposes only.

You have the right to ask for a copy of any personal information we hold about you, and to ask for it to be corrected if you think it is wrong. 

If you would like to request your information: please contact us at info@recap.org.nz.

Be involved!

Two volunteers share their experience with beekeeping during a tour

RECAP is a volunteer-led, registered charity (CC50147) with lots of opportunities for meaningful community involvement. As an umbrella organisation for a range of community projects, we would like to enable people with creativity and initiative to take leadership in areas that are supported by our purposes. Please step forward if you would like to develop a project or offer a workshop to benefit the community through RECAP. We also have several well-defined volunteer roles, small and large. Contact us to discuss a volunteer role that might suit you. You can also ask to be put on our mailing list, and we'll let you know about working bees as well as other events like workshops, socials, and more. Most of our events are equally open to both members (living in Ashhurst and the Pohangina Valley area) and non-members. Just send us your name, email address, and mailing address. Our AGM is usually the first Wednesday in June at the Village Valley Centre. Our email: info@recap.org.nz.