Tag: Local

Kings Seeds

After a thorough process overseen by BioGro NZ, Kings Seeds is NZ’s largest Organically Certified Mail Order Seed Company. Now in 2021, we are on to our 7th year of being organically certified and their organic range has grown to include over 100 varieties and continues to grow and change each year! https://www.kingsseeds.co.nz/  

Zero Waste Education

  Find the year 5-6 Education Units here. Find an overview of their programme here.   The Zero Waste Education (ZWE) programme has been educating children about the topic of sustainable resource use since 1993. This award- winning programme is now offered to over 500 schools throughout New Zealand to students in years 1-8 each…

Kids Go Gardening

Find the index of resources here. Go Gardening – helping New Zealand grow! Go Gardening is all about sharing the love of gardening, providing expert advice, guides, tips and inspiration. Go Gardening is the public face of New Zealand Plant Producers Inc. We’re the peak industry body for the nursery and garden centre industry –…

Wastebusters

At Wastebusters, we are  passionate about real recycling – producing clean, uncontaminated recycling which can be made into high quality products. We sort our recycling by hand, so there is minimal contamination going into the bales of material we send away to be reprocessed. The ideal is to recycle the material back into the same…

Zing Bokashi

At Zing Bokashi we are passionate about making a positive difference to improve the environment.  Our easy to use range of home composting products will help you reduce and reuse waste, while naturally boosting the nutrients in your soil by extending the ecological lifecycle of your waste products. Let’s do our bit to care for…

ACE Aotearoa

We provide leadership for Adult and Community Education (ACE) in Aotearoa, New Zealand and are a voice for emerging issues in ACE. We actively encourage research and policy development for the ACE Sector. ACE Aotearoa is committed to collaborating on key strategic issues for the benefit of ACE learners.  ACE Aotearoa provides advocacy and direction…

Avondale Community Garden

My name is Jordan, I am a 13 year old student going through my first year of highschool. I run the Avondale Community Garden. Our aim is to help feed the local community In need by giving away produce that we grow. I hope to get more of the Avondale Community interested in gardening and…

Growing Kiwi Gardeners

Kia ora, my name is Anita Croft. In 2018 I combined my passion for gardening and sustainability with my passion for teaching young children to start Growing Kiwi Gardeners. I am a qualified early childhood teacher with six years of experience teaching in the early childhood sector and eight years teaching in the tertiary sector. I…

The Butterfly Musketeers

  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…