sustainable
urban iving
Spend two hours hours picking up useful sustainability tips for your home and garden in the workshops below. These workshops cost $2 per person and run alongside Parnell Farmers’ Market.
Enrol online using the links below or by contacting us at community@villagesquare.org.nz, or on 09 555 5164
term 1 workshops
Raranga Harakeke: Weaving Flax
with Rewa Grimsdale
Saturday 2 March, 9.30-11.30am, $2
Learn about the culture and techniques of raranga in this beginners workshop.
Growing Vegetables & Fruit Trees in Small Spaces
with Paul Crowhurst
Saturday 9 March, 9.30-11.30am, $2
An interactive workshop showing you how to maximise your space to grow fruit trees and vegetables for your own table. The focus will be on organic and semi-organic ways to produce edibles. You will soon feel confident in having a go at growing your own.
Textile Upcycling - Rag Rug Weaving
with Barbara Woodman
Saturday 16 March, 9.30-11.30am, $2
Make a vintage-style Rag Rug from your lovely old fabrics and clothes. Barbara Woodman of Warm Hearts Upcycling will get you started reusing natural textiles and reducing waste at this hands-on workshop.
The Village Square Trust would like to thank Waitemata Local Board for the funding to make these workshops possible.
previous workshops
A Guide to Worm Farming with Worms R Us
Come and see how easy and fun worm farming of organic wastes can be! Learn about the best environment for composting worms and their brilliant benefits for your garden.
Chicken Keeping in the City
with Barbara Stumbles
Learn how to keep happy, healthy chickens with Babara Stumbles. We'll look at the best breeds to raise, types of housing, bedding and feeding.
Composting
with The Compost Collective
Learn how to turn your waste into a resource for your garden. Covers worm farms, Bokashi bins and composting.
DIY Bokashi Bins & Cold Composting with The Compost Collective
Judy, from Compost Collective, will introduce Bokashi fermentation, and focus on ways to improve your composting results. Turn your food waste into beneficial fertilisers for your garden and cycle your garden waste into building soil. Included in the session is a DIY Bokashi set to take home.
Creating Healthy Lunchboxes
with Wick Nixon
Join Wick Nixon from Wicked Wellbeing and learn some quick and healthy lunchbox ideas that are free of additives, preservatives and refined sugar. Discover winning, simple-to-bake items made with everyday ingredients that will take the stress away from that morning lunchbox chore! You’ll get to taste samples of everything made
Greener Fingers with Lynda Hallinan
Create a productive garden that's good for you and the planet! Lynda will share her expert tips for going plastic-free in your plot and pantry, with practical advice on everything from seed sowing and organic gardening hacks to clever planting techniques and recipes for preserving your harvests to reduce food waste.
Growing and Preserving Winter Fruit and Vegetables
with Lynda Hallinan
Make the most of your home‐grown fruit and vegetable crops this season with practical advice for growing, harvesting and preserving. From plot to pantry, Lynda Hallinan, Editor‐At‐Large for NZ Gardener magazine, will share her best edible gardening hints and tips, favourite recipes and time‐saving techniques.
Growing Veggies in Small Spaces: Moving to an Autumn Garden with Paul Crowhurst
An interactive workshop showing you how to maximise your space to grow fruit trees and vegetables for your own table. The focus will be on organic and semi-organic ways to produce edibles. You will soon feel confident in having a go at growing your own.
Growing Your Own Food in a Small Space
with Paul Crowhurst
An interactive workshop showing you how to maximise your space to grow fruit trees and vegetables for your own table. The focus will be on organic and semi-organic ways to produce edibles. You will soon feel confident in having a go at growing your own.
Let’s Make Beeswax Wraps
with Let’s Make it Green
Be part of the movement to reduce plastic waste! Join Yvonne and Liz who will show you how to make your own reusable beeswax food wraps - a beautiful alternative to plastic cling film. All materials will be provided.
Live More, Waste Less
with Lisa Hansby
Learn practical tips on how to deal with household rubbish and make choices that reduce your rubbish output with low waste ambassador, Lisa Hansby.
Make Your Own Eco-cleaners with Kelly Pretty
Learn how to make your own eco-cleaners for the home from sustainable textiles. Please bring your own jar and old cotton fabric.
Organic Gardening with Ruth Wood
Learn to look after your garden organically with tips that prioritise the health of the soil and the environment.
Preserving Fruits and Damson Jams
with Lynda Hallinan
Become a bottling and preserving champion with tips, tricks, recipes and techniques. Working with damson plums and late summer fruits, you'll learn how to whip up deliciously tart conserves and jams.
Soap Making - The Basics
with Let's Make it Green
Yvonne from Let's Make It Green will be showing us how we can make our own soap at home. Not only will you be able to learn how to do it, but you'll be able to take some home to try yourself! Then you'll never have to buy soap again!
Stock Your Shelves
with Lynda Hallinan
Most gardeners grow too much rather than not enough. Join Lynda to learn how to stock your pantry, and not your wheelie bin, with surplus food crops. She'll show you how to bottle fruit; blanch and freeze veges; and make jams, chutneys, sauces, cordials and other preserves for modern palates. Plus, taste what she makes at the end of the workshop.
Textile Upcycling
with Barbara Woodman
Try your hand at upcycling old textiles. Barbara Woodman from Warm Hearts Upcycling will help you create rag rugs and offer information on reinventing and revitalising your waste.
Textile Upcycling: Rag Rug Making with Barbara Woodman
Make a vintage-style Rag Rug from your lovely old fabrics and clothes. Barbara Woodman of Warm Hearts Upcycling will get you started reusing natural textiles and reducing waste at this hands-on workshop.
Urban Beekeeping
with Carol Downer
Bees are brilliant! With a hive in your backyard you’ll help your local ecosystem flourish and be rewarded with honey. Carol’s workshop will cover the basics you’ll need to know before setting up a bee hive. Learn about the history, biology and health of bees; types of hives, positioning hives and the law; and have your questions answered.
Raranga Harakeke: Weaving Flax
with Rewa Grimsdale
Learn to make Kete Waikawa - a large basket made using whole flax leaves which can be utilised in various ways. Save on plastic and learn how to work with natural resources.
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Parnell Community Centre
Jubilee Building
545 Parnell Road,
Parnell, Auckland
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