Oranga Kai Ora Gardens & Compost Hub

16/06/2026

Kia Ora Neighbours

It's volunteering time again this Friday afternoon (19th of June) at the old garden on Oranga Ave from 12-2pm.

Join us on Friday for a general tidy up. We will be ending with a cuppa and a treat as always!

Even if you don't have time to join for the full session please feel free to pop down and say hello.

Also save the date now - our next working bee at the new garden will be Saturday 27th of June! Hope to see you there!

08/06/2026

Working Bee #2 is in the books!

A big thank you for everyone who turned up despite the weather to help us with our second working bee laying the foundations of the new site.

Also a thank you to those of you who have been helping to collect and dropped off cardboard for us. We don't need any further donations at this stage.

How good is the new site looking? 😍

We still have more work to do though. Join us for our next working bee on Saturday June 27th 10am.

05/06/2026

Don’t let the showers put you off! Our working bee is still on and we’d love your help! Come join us this morning at our new site from 10am-12pm and hang around for a sausage sizzle to warm up after!!

04/06/2026

Help! ISO Cardboard!

We are on the hunt for more cardboard for this weekends working bee - we are ideally after large sheets (think large appliance boxes (fridges, freezers, etc...), bike boxes, etc...).

If you work somewhere or have access to some cardboard which we could have (we will collect) today or tomorrow please DM or email [email protected].

Thank you!!!

03/06/2026

Join us for our next working bee this weekend!

As we have our working bee on Saturday, there is no volunteering on Friday at the old garden site.

Come along and help us to continue to layout the site foundations with cardboard and mulch.

Hope to see you then!

18/05/2026

We will be running a volunteering session this Friday May 22nd from 12-2pm at the old (Oranga Ave) garden site.

We will be de-taping cardboard ahead of our next working bee at the new site and doing a general tidy up of the old site. And as always, we will finish with a treat and a cuppa!

Even if you don't have time to join for the full session please feel free to pop down and say hello.

And if you can't make it on Friday, our next working bee at the new site is Saturday 6th of June 10-12pm. We will be moving cardboard and mulch and finishing with a sausage sizzle!

Hope to see you then!

12/05/2026

What an incredible start for our new community garden!

Our very first working bee was a huge success, with 39 amazing volunteers coming together to help bring this space to life. The amount of work achieved in just one day was truly inspiring — from spreading mulch and laying cardboard, to clearing weeds and setting up fencing, we are off to a great start.

A massive thank you to everyone who gave their time, energy, tools, and enthusiasm. Community projects like this only happen because people show up, and wow did our community show up!

We’d also like to give a special shoutout to our generous sponsors who helped make the day possible:

🌿 Mulch supplied by:
-A Team Trees Limited
-Eli from Auckland Tree Works
-Olli from All Trees
-Tree Action

📦 Cardboard supplied by:
-Electrolux New Zealand - a big thank you to Ian and Hannah in particular!
-Weta Coffee (Wētā Coffee)
-Magness Benrow
-Onehunga Community Recycling Centre (Onehunga Community Recycling Centre)

🌭 Additional support/materials from:
-Pak N’Save Royal Oak for the sausage sizzle
-Te Papapa Sports Club for their BBQ (Te Papapa Onehunga Rugby & Sports Club )
-Onehunga Community Recycling Center for the temporary fencing (Onehunga Community Recycling Centre)

We’re so excited to see this garden grow into a shared space for connection, learning, food, and community. This is only the beginning!

We have another working bee on Saturday June 6th at 10am - please come down and join us again!

08/05/2026

Tomorrow is the day!

We'd love to have you come and help us during the working bee. We kick off at 10am at the new garden space off the Namata Road entrance to the park

If anyone has any old cardboard boxes or large sheets they want to get rid of, please bring them along as we have a large area to cover! Likewise if you have any forks, spades, buckets, or gloves feel free to bring them as the main goal of the day will be moving mulch throughout the site.

We are so excited to start working in our space. Come be a part of something amazing and watch the space (and eventually the veggies) grow!

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04/05/2026

4 sleeps until our working bee!

We are so excited to start working in our new space but we need your help!

Come join us for our first working bee laying cardboard and mulch to build the foundation on our new site this Saturday May 9th at 10am-12:30pm. Even if you can't make the whole event, feel free to come join us for any part. We will have a sausage sizzle on for all our volunteers.

If you have any garden gloves/forks/spades/buckets/wheelbarrows you're welcome to bring these along as we can always use spares.

If you're driving there is off street parking on Namata Road or on Olea Road by Ferguson Hall or the rugby club. See the map below for reference.

We hope to see you then!

01/05/2026

We are so excited for our move, but as we mentioned in our video we need your help!

We are running our first working bee on Saturday May 9th from 10am-12pm. We'd love to see you for any of that time.

We will be starting the foundations of the garden, laying cardboard and covering it with mulch during this working bee.

Feel free to reach out if you have any questions!