Building networks in the community with others through gardening today. We had visitors from Croft Grove flats, Te Kakano o te Aroha, and
Christine - the Moera Community Engagement Coordinator. Croft Grove has a garden of their own going with silverbeet, tomatoes, spring onions, etc and some compost bins. We're all learning as gardeners, so was good to do some weeding, exchange notes and plants such as taewe ('Maori potatoes'), Jerusalem artichokes; then korero over a cuppa tea or coffee - and biscuits brought by someone!Left the dirty, smelly work til after, when (some of) us shovelled a trailer load of horse manure into our compost bins before Tom drove the rest down to feed the compost at Croft Grove. Then a Samoan lady new to the area turned up with her food scraps - she's been doing some quiet weeding for us on the side during the week as well.
Well done all who were there - some great conversations and networking going on. 
A few more working bees before Christmas (and plenty of live bees around the borage as well today).
Look where we've come from! The fledgling gardens in 2008. And some of that early crew are still around! 'From small beginnings, good things grow.'
