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06/09/2018

Was our initial inspiration over 20yrs ago!!

24/05/2018

WANANGA IS GOING AHEAD THIS SATURDAY!
Kia ora koutou
Just letting you know that we are going to go ahead with the wananga this Saturday! The weather forecast is for yucky storm apopo. . . .engari. . . .Saturday is looking OK out by us. . . .so yay, lets go for it!!

We have some plastering and rendering we can do under cover on the 4brm whare. . . .and if its fine enough we can do some bagging and rendering out on the earth dome power shed. . .so we are covered for weather!

Please make sure you bring gummies, warm clothes, work gloves (if you have some, but we have a few sets) & rain coats just in case. . . . .and some warm blankets and slippers for at the marae! Lol

I have attached a couple of Papakainga guide for everyone to have a look at. . . .there are many different versions from different rohe (all on the Te Matapihi website). . . .and all of them are good for visioning. . . .so we can have a look at these at night and you can start some planning!!!

Cool . . . .. look forward to meeting everyone on Saturday!. . . . Aww and can you please let us know early tomorrow if you can’t make it, for catering purposes!

PS. There is no wifi at the marae and limited cell phone coverage. . . just letting you know! lol

Nga mihi
Aroha
TAITOKERAU TOOLKIT

http://www.fndc.govt.nz/about-the-district/tangata-whenua/papakainga-toolkit/Papakaainga_Toolkit_A4_ONLINE.pdf

BOP TOOLKIT

10/05/2018

COME TRAIN WITH US! Its been a couple of months since we had to postpone the Horticulture Course with Northtec out here on the Whenua. . . . but we're ready to go again . . .. just need at least 10x students URGENTLY!

SIGN UP NOW AND LEARN ABOUT PERMACULTURE, HORTICULTURE AND SUSTAINABLE PRACTISES & GET A QUALIFICATION

The deal is same as last time:
- possible van from Kawakawa via Kaikohe
- possible van from Whangarei
- Must be over 16yrs
- 4x days per week
- Basic 9am -3pm hours, but this is negotiated as a team
once you start to suit you guys
- Eligible for student allowances
- NZQA qualifications

So if your interested please register NOW in the following way. .
- Google up the Northtec website
- hit the 'Programme tab'
- then the 'Horticulture tab'
- then enrol on the NZ Certificate in Primary Industries
Whangarei or NUTAP
Even if you start to complete it and go back to it with all the required docs later in the week. . thats all good! Once this is done we can follow you up and help get allowances and the other courses stuff sorted!

SO. . . .please contact us if your are keen!
- Leave us a message or PM us here OR
- Aroha - [email protected] (021) 489-808
- Lettica - [email protected] (027) 459-0322

Look forward to hearing from ya. . . .and would appreciate the awhi on our Papakainga! MAURIORA!

10/05/2018

27/04/2018

URGENT PANUI
Morena koutou.
To all those who are coming to the Wānanga this weekend at Te Aroha Marae ....Aroha mai but Tawhirimatea isn’t having it today!!! It is pelting down out here today so we will need to Postpone! Earth building is no good in the rain! Lol.

Please keep watching the posts and we will update with a new date soon!

Again....Aroha mai!

Also it’s really bad reception out here so we will try and make contact with you all and Aroha will wait at the Marae just incase! Have an awesome weekend anyway!

25/04/2018

♻️💚

21/04/2018

Awesome! 💚

12/04/2018

What an awesome kaupapa!

11/04/2018

It was a privilege having the bro Pat Mawson up from Hawkes Bay showing the boys his “secret” rendering recipe! 👍🏼

Two render coats of Lime putty, corse sand and egg carton pulp! One as a scratch coat and the other as a “smooth finish” coat (same ingredients, different measurements) 👌🏼

The lime helps protect & waterproof the walls!

The brown interior plaster shown at the beginning of the video was a clay slurry, corse sand pulp which the boys had a little play with to see how well it worked on the walls then waited till it dried after 10 days to see if it stuck.

Acoustic guitar music by Te Reotakiwa Dunn.

02/04/2018

29/03/2018

Taking it back 11 months ago when the boys had only just started their Earth building journey! It's amazing what they've accomplished in such a short amount of time from not knowing a thing about earth bagging to building a 4 bedroom POURED earth whare!!! With a little self taught training and A LOT of sweat they smashed it out in less than 6 months👌😊 (less than that if you minus the bad weather haha) KA MAU TE WEHI!!!

23/03/2018

🌱THE WANANGA IS STILL ON🌿
Forecast says it will clear up in the Mangakahia area tomorrow and be fine on Sunday so we will continue with this weekends wananga

🙌SEE ALL REGISTERED PARTICIPANTS TOMORROW 🙌