You are invited to attend the first…
KAPITI FOOD FOREST community feedback meeting.
WHEN: 7:30pm Monday 7th December
WHERE: Paraparaumu Community Centre (next to library off Rimu road)
Food is such an incredibly important issue for everybody.  We need to start reconnecting as a community with where our food comes from, learning how to grow good quality food sustainably [...]

Very excited about this month’s Seedy Sunday. Darcy Philp, chicken man and lead consultant on This Way Up’s Funky Chicken Farm project, will be in to tell us a thing or two about keeping chickens in your backyard.
So bring all your chicken-related questions! We’ll also have chickens for sale and info from the Kapiti Coast [...]

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This just in from Stuff.co.nz:
Food prices rocketed by 2.8 percent last month - the biggest increase in 20 years.
Figures from Statistics New Zealand show that food prices have soared by 8.4 percent in the 12 months to June.
SNZ said that all five of the food subgroups it measures increased in June. The most significant [...]

It was a great day today and a good speech by Sarah Frater from Edible Gardens.  There was a lot of swapping going on and there were 40 people crammed into the room so it was well attended(we’ll be in the larger room next time). There were a couple of people selling stuff like books [...]

Transition Towns Kapiti invites you to an informative Documentary. We will be showing
End of Suburbia
Oil Depletion and the Collapse of the Western Dream

Suburbia, and all it promises, has become the Western Dream. But as we enter the 21st century, serious questions are beginning to emerge about the sustainability of this way of life. With brutal [...]

For those of you who missed it last month

Wildlife film maker Rebecca Hosking investigates how to transform her family’s farm in Devon into a low energy farm for the future, and discovers that nature holds the key. With her father close to retirement, Rebecca returns to her family’s wildlife-friendly farm in Devon, to become the next generation to farm the land. But last [...]