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Pressure Canning Wānanga
Did you know that home food preservation is experiencing a resurgence in popularity? Workshops on skills like pressure canning, bottling, dehydrating and fermenting are attracting more and more people interested in self-sufficiency. The cost of living is possibly one driver for the upswing in trend. Plus, people want to know where there food is coming…
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First Aid Certification Wānanga
‘Oh my gosh, are you OK? Here take a seat? Are you hurt? ‘No I’m fine. Really, I’m fine. ‘Are you sure? That was quite a tumble.’ ‘It’s just my knees. They give out on me sometimes, but I’m fine.’ That was pretty much how the concerned conversation went when one of our friends fell…
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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…
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Cafe 123
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’…
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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…
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Welcome To Āwhitu Collective!
Āwhitu Collective is located on the Āwhitu 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 out…