Community Supported Agriculture FREE talk & seed swap - June 28th 2018

You are invited to join us for an informative evening with the founders of Wairarapa Eco Farm, a thriving organic farm in Masterton. We will also be having a seed swap. so bring along your favourite, labelled seeds. WEF is a local example of a successful, working CSA model.

CSA stands for Community Supported Agriculture. The CSA model for farming is also referred to as subscription farming or farm shares. In this model members subscribe a season’s worth of vegetables, sharing both the risks and bounty of agriculture. You place your food dollar directly in the hands of a local family farm and in exchange receive a share of fresh, organically grown vegetables each week.

The history is an inspiring one of bare, unproductive land turned into a rich oasis, you can read more about this on the WEF website here or even better come along to our free evening talk on June 28th in Ashhurst.

Wairarapa Eco Farm delivers to pick-up points throughout Wellington, Upper Hutt, Lower Hutt, in Palmerston North, and throughout the Wairarapa.

June 28th 7.00pm. St Mary Magdalene Church Hall. All welcome, free event, just turn up, supper served and koha appreciated.   ****Remember your seeds for swapping**

Composting working Bee and workshop

You are invited to join us for a fun and informative afternoon at our community orchard - Olssons Orchard.  

On Saturday March 24th 1-3pm you will find us creating compost for the trees in the orchard, while also providing a dedicated teaching space where experienced tutors will be able to answer questions about all forms of composting - including Bokashi, worm farms, liquid manure, green mulch and general soil health.  

We would love you to bring a hat, a drink, your questions and some time to help us weed and build a new compost heap.

This is a free event and all are welcome, for any amount of time.   Koha appreciated.

Any questions, please email me - jane@recap.org.nz

Wild Food Walk

We are lucky to have Steve and Jenny from "Human - Bushcrafting and Wild Living" coming to Ashhurst Domain to share with us their peaceful, down to earth approach to foraging in the wild.   This is just one of many things they offer, so participants will be in for a treat.    The following is from  their website and shows that they are committed to help build resilience and connection.

Here at HUMAN we give you the skills to connect more deeply with your surroundings and to begin seeing with Native Eyes all that is on offer in our abundant environment. From wild food foraging to bird language, tracking, bushcraft and survival skills to native parenting techniques, wandering and nature connection for kids, we have such potential, join us to find out how much we all can remember. 
HUMAN is based up the Otaki Gorge on a wonderful piece of land overlooking and wandering down to the Otaki River. It offers an ideal edge between the busy- ness world and the “wild” places. 

So come and join us for a Wild Food Walk (and more) in Ashhurst on Saturday March 10th at 2pm.  (This gives you time to visit the Ashhurst Community Market in the morning.)

Registrations are available here.    There is a cost of $10 per person, if this prohibits you from attending please contact me to discuss options.  

jane@recap.org.nz

 

Ashhurst: CleanupNZ day 15 September

Ashhurst Cleanup NZ day, as part of keep New Zealand Beautiful Cleanup Week, will be held over a couple of hours and is asking for volunteers to tidy up reserves in our local environment.
When:    1:00 to 3:00pm, Saturday 15 September 2018
Site:       Gravel pit park, Cambridge Ave (beside Red Cross shop)
              for registration, gloves and rubbish bags
Where:
Depending on numbers of people, we will try to clean up any rubbish in and around the Ashhurst Domain
If there is enough support, we can widen the collection to Lincoln Park and the walkway along the terrace.

All volunteers are asked to return to base to measure the rubbish collected and have a group photograph.
(Note: Children must be supervised by an adult.)

Plant Propagation September 15th

Helen Johnston runs a lovely nursery on the outskirts of Ashhurst in the Pohangina Valley. Tree & Shrub Propagation is a propagation nursery, which grows strong, healthy, and good quality plants and focuses on propagating trees, shrubs, perennials, grasses, hedging plants, farm forestry, and plants suitable for lifestyle blocks, and re- vegetation.

Join RECAP for this wonderful opportunity to learn from  such an experienced hand. Helen is offering two workshops at her property on the 15th September which cost $10per person.

To register for the morning workshop (10am - 12 noon) click here

And to register for the afternoon workshop (1pm - 3pm) click here

 

 

Spring 2017 - so much growing in the garden

The community garden has been a work in progress for a few years now.   Volunteers have been working away, students on the permaculture course enjoy field trips there and other workshops have helped to create the cob seating.  Regular working bees have seen fruit trees planted, bulbs, a rotation of vegetables and plentiful flowers and herbs.  These are for the community to enjoy ....and they do!  Visitor numbers are growing and the librarians receive many compliments and questions about the gorgeous garden outside the library windows.

 

 

Permaculture Introduction courses - 2018

Permaculture in 2018!

Want to kick the year off full of inspiration? We have spaces in our two, full day modules introducing Permaculture Design - Feb 24th and March 3rd. 

These together are the start of our full (12 module) Permaculture Design course and you will receive a certificate for attending both (plus you could continue with the other modules when there is space).

They are heavily subsidised, costing only $40 each and always a fun day with like minded students.
To register please email me - info@recap.org.nz

Double Permaculture Garden Tour -Sunday 15th October

Sorry, this event is now full.  Thanks to everyone who has registered.

If you would like to go on our waiting list, please email me - info@recap.org.nz

 

Registrations are now open for this exciting day out visiting two amazing Permaculture gardens. RECAP and Envirofest are pleased to offer this opportunity to visit two inspiring gardens and learn from some knowlegeable Permaculture teachers/gardeners.

 Many thanks to PNCET for their support.

We will be visiting Kath Irvine's Edible backyard near Levin in the morning.  Kath is an experienced Permaculture teacher who will give us a tour of her very well functioning garden.  After lunch at her place, we will travel on to Gary and Emily Williams' home and garden, in Manakau, where you will get to see their food forest, bio filtered swimming pool and eco farm stay as well as their extensive orchards and gardens.

More information about each garden can be found here -         Williams'           Kath Irvine

Please register here.   

We hope you can make it!

Any questions?  Then please get in touch - info@recap.org.nz

 

 

Spring in the community garden

Spring has arrived and how wonderful to see the flowers blossoming.  We have many visitors to the garden and love to see locals taking ownership of the gorgeous space that has been created there. There are volunteer gardeners down there on Fridays 10am-12 if you want to have a tour, help out, or chat about what we are up to.  

The vege beds are getting planted up, there are new fruit trees, lots of name signs and some new information signs coming soon!  The garden is a teaching garden and used as such for workshops.  You are welcome to pick flowers or eat herbs or veges that are ready to harvest.

The cob seating needs a bit more work and is going to get a final coat of paint to finish it now the weather is warming up.  

A big thanks to Ian, Rik and Veronica who spend hours gardening each week to keep it all looking so fabulous.

 

RECAP Seminars and Workshops

Each year we aim to offer a range of workshops, courses, 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 fermenting vegetables, pruning, composting, keeping chickens, designing food gardens, a film about new ways of running a business, talks on the river and its ecology, natural building and retro fitting, food as medicine, and a garden tour? These are open to all, free or well subsidised and run alongside our Permaculture Design Course.

RECAP is committed to providing education around sustainability and local (Ashhurst and Pohangina) projects - we have the community garden at the Ashhurst Library and the Community Orchard (the Olsson Orchard) in McCraes Bush.

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

 

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