28 Mar
Events and Community Engagement, Te Puke Community Garden

Kids Kai Trial at Flavours of Plenty: A Fun, Hands-On Adventure for Youngsters to Explore Food Resilience

While most events at the Flavours of Plenty festival are designed with adults in mind, there's one exciting exception: the Kids Kai Trail, happening on April 5, hosted by the Te Puke Kai Resilience group and Colab. Chris Johnstone, Colab coordinator, explained, “While Flavours of Plenty mainly targ...

Continue reading

07 Jul
Crop Swap Te Puke region, Events and Community Engagement, Food Forests of New Zealand (www.foodforests.nz), Te Puke Region Food Co-op, TROPPO's Food Forest in Te Puke, BOP (www.foodforest.org.nz)

Growing Up in Papua New Guinea: A Journey Up the Sepik River to Meet the Sepik Tribes

Growing up in Papua New Guinea was a unique and enriching experience, especially when it involved traveling up the Sepik River with my father, who was a missionary. The Sepik River, one of the longest rivers in Papua New Guinea, flows through some of the most remote and culturally rich regions of th...

Continue reading