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  • Homesteading Wānanga – Workshops

    Homesteading Wānanga – Workshops

    Homesteading. A word that often conjures up visions of lush, vegetable laden gardens, or food stores chock full with jars of homemade jams and pickles. Hens roaming the garden adds an earthy texture to the vision, collecting eggs in the cute little wicker basket you bought just for that purpose seems so…country. Sometimes, life can…

  • Cafe 123

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    Cafe 123 could be described as a pop up cafe. It opens once a month to offer our local community the best of cafe quality food and freshly ground, specially blended fair trade organic coffee without having to travel all the way to town. Locals sometimes refer to this dining spot as ‘the secret cafe’…

  • Firewood and Holz Hausen

    Firewood and Holz Hausen

    It was suggested at a meeting, as things often are, that we should build a Holz Hausen. The idea stemmed from a conversation about the weather. Not that our meetings often talk about the weather, but this one did throw the topic up for reasons I cannot honestly remember. What I do recall though, is…

  • Welcome To Awhi Tu Collective!

    Welcome To Awhi Tu Collective!

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    Awhi Tu Collective is located on the Awhitu Peninsula which is situated along the west coast of New Zealand. Its western boundary runs from the mouth of the Waikato River to the entrance of the Manukau Harbour. Small rural communities are dotted around the peninsula offering the country lifestyle many of us enjoy. The scenery…