Community Notices

CELEBRATING GROWNING FOOD LOCALLY - KAPITI COAST DISTRICT COUNCIL
Free activities and workshops across Kapiti

CROP SWAP, A LITTLE HISTORY AND GARDENERS QUESTION TIME:
Come along for an Autumn celebration at
Paekākāriki Community Orchard. Learn a little
about the whenua where the Orchard is sited
from Ngāti Haumia. Bring something for the
swap/share table (plants, cuttings, fruit/veg,
seeds, flowers, preserves, baking, kombucha,
etc.) and share gardening questions to our
expert panel in Gardeners Question Time at 3pm.
Kai, fun and community, wildplay zone for kids.
Event will go ahead rain or shine.
Sunday 2 April 2pm – 5pm, Tilley Rd Reserve,
Paekākāriki

LOVE YOUR COMPOST
Love your compost and learn more about different
types of composting suitable for your household.
Receive a $40 voucher towards your chosen
composting system or collection service!
Activities for tamariki will be available while
caregivers attend the workshop, followed by
a kōrero and a cuppa for all.
Thursday 13 April 10.30am – 11.30am,
Ōtaki Library Courtyard
POU WHENUA AND THEIR PLACE
IN OUR WHAKAPAPA
Learn more about the special place of Pou whenua
and experience the stories behind the carvings at
the lecuture theartre at Te Wananaga o Raukawa.
Numbers are limited please register for this event:
sustainable.communities@kapiticoast.govt.nz
Monday 17 April 10am – 11am, Te Ara a
Tawhaki, Te Wananga o Raukawa, Ōtaki
Numbers are limited, please register
to attend: sustainable.communities@
kapiticoast.govt.nz

KEEPING FED: HOUSEHOLD EMERGENCY PLANNING
Local Emergency Management Advisor, Renee
Corlett will chat about how a disaster could
affect keeping you and your whānau/family fed.
What you can do to reduce the impacts and
share ideas together such as: The impacts of
an emergency on mealtimes, what’s helpful to
have on hand and how to make use of what
you already have, storing food and water cost
effectively, vege gardens and flooding, your
ideas and traditional knowledge.
Start where you are, use what you have,
do what you can!
Wednesday 19 April 1pm - 2pm Ōtaki supper
Rooms, and Thursday 20 April 10am - 11am
Paraparaumu Library Meeting Room

EARTHWORKERS: GROW RADICAL HOPE THROUGH FOOD
Whether you are a passionate home gardener,
environmental advocate, urban farmer, market,
marae or community gardener interested in
restoration, regeneration and the wonder of
biology by enrolling into this course you become
part of a network that is growing radical hope
through food. This is an introduction to the
earthworkers course to gauge interest in one
being held in the Kāpiti region at a later date.
Wednesday 26 April 5.30pm – 6.30pm
Paraparaumu Library meeting room

LEY BABY LEY – HERBAL LEY AND FRUIT TREE PRUNING
Learn more about how to prune your fruit trees
and give it a go yourself. Creating living mulch to
keep trees warm during winter and cool during the
hotter months have multiple benefits for biodiversity,
beneficial insects and overall garden health. We will
design and plant some together, bring along a koha
for the kai table. Nau mai haere mai.
Sunday 30 April 10.30am – 11.30 am,
He iti Naa Mootai Maara – entry through
Te Rauparaha Street

www.kapiticoast.govt.nz/whats-on/upcoming-events
APRIL 2 – MAY 1, 2023

CELEBRATE EASTER WITH NGĀ MANU NATURE RESERVE

Over $3,000 worth of sponsored prizes to be won. Children can join in the
annual Easter Rock Hunt around the reserve searching for chocolate Easter
eggs. If they luck in and find the rare decorated wooden eggs also hidden, they
win a lucky dip sponsored prize.

Waikanae, Kapiti Coast — Ngā Manu Nature Reserve’s Easter celebrations
run every day throughout the long weekend from Friday 7 th April to
Monday 10 April inclusive.

Running for the third consecutive year, the ever-popular Easter Rock
Hunt will occur daily Friday to Monday. Children are tasked to find the
decorated easter rocks hidden around the reserve to win a chocolate
Easter Egg. If they find one of the special large eggs, they win a lucky dip
sponsored prize. Prizes include family passes to Pūkaha, Staglands,
Wellington Zoo or Coastlands Aquatic Centre with water slide,
Southwards Car Museum and so much more.

Ngā Manu’s celebrations also include an Easter scavenger hunt nature
trail, face painting, an onsite colouring competition and an Easter Egg
wishing tree.

There will be daily appearances from Keri the Easter Kiwi who will be
available for selfies and family photos, and a sausage sizzle and hot & cold
drinks tent on site. Families can bring a picnic and blanket and make a day
of it.

The iconic eel talks, and pole feed will run at 12pm and 2pm daily during
the school holidays.
Hop on in to Ngā Manu this Easter.
https://ngamanu.org.nz/easter-weekend/

Ngà Manu Nature Reserve sponsors include Pak n Save Kāpiti, Countdown Waikanae,
The Warehouse Kāpiti, Pūkaha, Wellington Zoo, Southwards Car Museum, Coastlands
Event Cinema, Antics, Kāpiti Chocolate Factory, Coastlands Aquatics, and Sweetpea.
Ngà Manu Nature Reserve is a wildlife sanctuary with walk-through aviaries & original
native forest in the Kāpiti Coast. As a non-profit charitable trust, a visit to Ngā Manu
directly supports wildlife & conservation programmes. Help a family who may not
otherwise come to Ngā Manu and donate a family annual membership today.
If you would like any more information about this topic, please call Jane Carruthers
on 04 2934131 or email marketing@ngamanu.org.nz

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