Tag: Education

The Electric Garden is an out-of-the-courier-bag solution for teachers to deliver digital technologies education to children, through a medium that is hands-on, connected with nature, and solves real world problems.

  Find the Educational Guide on Monarch butterflies here. The Butterfly Musketeers was founded in 2013 by Maria Romero, who is the author of “An Educational Guide on Monarch Butterflies”. The Butterfly Musketeers’ mission is to raise awareness of these beautiful creatures and to share with people how much can be learned from the transformation…

We are a meta-organisation for environmental and sustainable community organisations in the wider Christchurch area. We are here to provide support, connections, education and inspiration. The vision and purpose: To create a catalytic co-working and informal ‘bumping space’ for environmental organisations in the Greater Christchurch area. This centrally-located Envirohub will connect and inspire – building…

Connecting people to the art art, science and practice of gardening and horticulture. New Zealand’s largest gardening and horticultural organisation providing information, garden tours and activities. https://www.chsgardens.co.nz/ https://www.facebook.com/CanterburyHorticulturalSociety office@chsgardens.co.nz 03-366 6937

Our aim is to elevate permaculture knowledge & design further into common understanding and discussions. To share valuable design systems, and tools that can be used to help our society transition into a future with clean water, safe and abundant food, renewable energy and resources, healthy watersheds, and prosperous people and ecosystems. https://www.canterburypermacultureinstitute.co.nz https://www.facebook.com/CPI16 info@canterburypermacultureinstitute.co.nz

Bee Awesome is a free educational programme for schools and community groups.  Learn about Bees from building a hive, rearing a queen, to harvesting honey. We’re a social enterprise passionate about bees and the environment.  We want to teach the tamariki of Waitaha about the importance of biodiversity/ He rerenga rauropi, food security/ He kai…

“Strengthen and nurture existing community gardens, and support new initiatives, in order to build strong communities and encourage these by respecting and fostering human and environmental diversity.” The Canterbury Community Gardens Association is a networking organisation for community gardens, promoting the growth of new and existing initiatives. CCGA is a group of community gardeners and supportive…

The garden is a hub of activities where volunteers contribute their time in the garden in exchange for good fresh organic vegetables and good company. People of all ages and abilities volunteer and visit, including families, people with disabilities, local schools and people feeling isolated in our community. As well as inspiring and educating people…

We are a pioneer organisation leading the charge in food resilience, ecological restoration and community engagement in the Red Zone. The Richmond Community Garden came together to re-establish the pre-earthquake vegetable garden next to Avebury house. However, with a dedicated group of volunteers the garden quickly became established and we set our sites on 2…

At our Food Talks gathering on April 18th we were lucky enough to be hosted by Antoinette and Jordan @ Happen Films. Antoinette and Jordan create amazing digital content telling the stories of inspirational people around New Zealand and Australia that are striving to make a difference in our world. Happen Films create “Documentary films…