Recycling Baby Furniture

My wee guy is out of his cot so it's time to clear out the baby gear. Finding an opp shop that takes things like high chairs (due to their Health & Safety policies), is tricky, but try these options that could make a huge difference to a family in need;

Families Achieving Balance Charitable Trust
They need quality donations of children & men's clothing, tricycles, scooters, prams, buggies & household items.  

Drop at Totara House, 1428 Cameron Rd, Greerton, Mon - Thurs, 10am- 4pm, or 
phone 543 3194.

Tauranga Women's Refuge 
They always need quality household goods to help set up new homes for families from scratch, such as blankets and linen, beds, furniture and whiteware.

Drop at the Community Centre, 60 Pools Rd, Greerton, Mon - Fri, 9-4pm, phone 541 1910.

Gardening by the Moon

We watched  the calendar and decided to plant our garlic bulbs on June 23rd, before the new moon started.  This loosely tied in with Matariki as a good time to plant root vegetables.

A Gardener's Guide to Matariki

With our donated bulbs, the children gathered to break them up into cloves. Then we counted them out in rows of 10 to get 20 cloves, with a few thrown in for good measure! We needed to clear some space in the garden bed so our 'gardeners' pulled out some rocket, shaking the root system and putting all that good soil back into the ground. (The rocket was washed and put on the sharing table - we hope someone had a nice salad or stirred it through some pasta!).

 

We made 3 trenches with the trowel and then the children put their cloves in (pointy end UP), spacing them apart and giving them lots of room to grow.  Their gentle little hands moved the dirt over the cloves and covered them up. I think they got watered. If not, Mother Nature did her part later in the afternoon with a light drizzle!


Then the children designed their own envelope and put the garlic inside, ready to go home and be planted.A great team effort by the children of Gwen Rogers. We're all looking forward to garlic at the end of the year!

Can't fit cardboard in your recycling bin?

Make the most of the recent weather & leave your awkward shape & sized boxes out in the rain- no problem squishing them in then ; )

Kindy has recycling bins outside for our use also.

Citrus Harvesting

Hi again,

If your (or your elderly neighbour's), citrus tree is overrun with fruit at the moment or if you just won't get around to picking, call on the Community Fruit Harvesting charity.  They collect fruit that would otherwise go to waste then give the fresh produce and preserves to other charities and schools who share it with those in need.

If you have a fruit tree ready for picking, or if you can volunteer to pick or make jam, visit www.pickfruit.co.nz, call Martin Stewart on 021 184 1018 or check them out on Facebook.com/fruittauranga

Just recently they saved just under a tonne of kiwi fruit from going to cattle feed- good stuff (sorry cows).