My Backyard Garden Project Mangere Challenge
My Backyard Garden Project Mangere Challenge
100 Mangere families who are keen to start backyard gardens are wanted to take part in the upcoming 'My Backyard Garden Project Mangere Challenge'. Families must live in the Mangere area and commit to attending workshops on 9 and 10 September where they'll build raised garden beds from old pallets, and learn about composting, lasagne gardening, Maramataka (gardening by the moon), seed raising, seedling planting and how to use their produce. The project is free and participants will receive their own raised garden bed, compost bin and support to get them growing.
To register your backyard, or to volunteer your time or resources, please contact: Brent Mags 021 029 10004, Therese Mangos 021 905 961 or Valerie Teraitua 027 2561472
The project is supported by:
Love Food Hate Waste, Pacific Vision Aotearoa, Compost Collective, Te Puna Kokiri, The Southern Initiative, Healthy Families Manukau, Papatuanuku Kokiri Marae
Best way to use leftovers?
I'm sure you've got some excess ham at home or cold roast potatoes.
What are some of your favourite ways to use leftover food from Christmas day? Share below.
Poll: Would you rather: Christmas in summer forever or winter forever?
Just a bit of a fun poll to get you thinking.
If you had to live out your Christmas days, would you prefer it was a summer Christmas or a winter Christmas?
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62.2% Summer
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36.3% Winter
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1.4% Other - I'll share below
⚠️ DOGS DIE IN HOT CARS. If you love them, don't leave them. ⚠️
It's a message we share time and time again, and this year, we're calling on you to help us spread that message further.
Did you know that calls to SPCA about dogs left inside hot cars made up a whopping 11% of all welfare calls last summer? This is a completely preventable issue, and one which is causing hundreds of dogs (often loved pets) to suffer.
Here are some quick facts to share with the dog owners in your life:
👉 The temperature inside a car can heat to over 50°C in less than 15 minutes.
👉 Parking in the shade and cracking windows does little to help on a warm day. Dogs rely on panting to keep cool, which they can't do in a hot car.
👉 This puts dogs at a high risk of heatstroke - a serious condition for dogs, with a mortality rate between 39%-50%.
👉 It is an offence under the Animal Welfare Act to leave a dog in a hot vehicle if they are showing signs of heat stress. You can be fined, and prosecuted.
SPCA has created downloadable resources to help you spread the message even further. Posters, a flyer, and a social media tile can be downloaded from our website here: www.spca.nz...
We encourage you to use these - and ask your local businesses to display the posters if they can. Flyers can be kept in your car and handed out as needed.
This is a community problem, and one we cannot solve alone. Help us to prevent more tragedies this summer by sharing this post.
On behalf of the animals - thank you ❤️
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