Crop Swap gatherings are for everyone who is happy to share.

Just bring your garden's and kitchen's surplus, turn up in time (or even a little earlier to help with the set up), display your treasures nicely, admire your fellow crop swappers goodies, mix and mingle,
share your best jam recipe and enjoy the presence of people who find joy in the moneyless exchange of abundance.

Once everyone is officially welcomed and the sharing is opened you are invited to mindfully take what you are interested in. Everything is there to go to a new home.
Take your time and keep other's in mind, the slower ones, the children, the elders, so that everyone has the chance to fill their baskets.
After this please help with the clean up, get home safely and tell everyone, how awesome it was.
Next time, bring a friend

Community Open Day at Kaicycle!

Come along for as much or as little of the day as you would like.

9.30am - 12.30pm COMMUNITY WORKING BEE - Registrations required
Many hands make light work - come and get your hands in the māra - with a bunch of us we'll be able to get a good chunk of mahi done! Register at community@kaicycle.org.nz

COMMUNITY CHUTNEY - Bring along a vegetable to add to the Community Pot. We’ll forage from the mara and together we’ll make a big pot of delicious chutney.

12:30PM - 1pm, KAI BREAK
Potluck shared kai, coffee, tea, and cake.

1:30pm - 3pm KOHA WORKSHOP: Seed Saving - KOHA - Registrations required - email community@kaicycle.org.nz to sign up.

Join us for this introductory workshop on seed saving. Seed saving is an ancient practice and an essential tool in creating a circular and resilient food system and enabling kai sovereignty. It also allows us to select for seed that will thrive in our micro-climates, strengthening crops year by year. We'll wānanga about the importance of saving seed, understanding the whakapapa of seeds and plant reproduction, and what you need to know to start saving seed yourself. We'll put our learnings into practice at the farm, saving and processing seed from our summer crops. We will have an area for swapping seed, so please bring along any saved seed you would like to swap.

Join El and Esther from Seeds to Feeds to learn more about what you can forage in our abundant city!!
Enjoy a taste of fresh, locally foraged salad and learn about what you can gather from around our city.
We’ll have information about our foraging tours and tasty recipes to try at home.
Stop by anytime for a taste and a korero.

11am–2pm, Thursday 5 March,
Bond Street Container, corner of
Willis and Bond Streets

Join us for a hands-on, heart-led Cheeky Chutney & Relish Bash — a time to roll up our sleeves, chop, stir, laugh, and share the simple joy of making something together.

This is about more than jars and recipes; it’s about connection, passing on knowledge, and creating kai with care.

Come as you are, bring your curiosity, and leave with a jar of either cheeky chutney or homemade relish.

Koha:
All cash koha will go towards purchasing a freezer for the community centre.

What to bring:
2 medium-sized jars
An apron (a limited number will be available to borrow)
Optional: Vegetables from your garden or a neighbour’s

Bookings: Please book your spot by email or phone.

Contact:
Irihāpeti Hokianga Te Aho
Community Activator
Miramar & Maupuia Community Centre
iri@mmcc.org.nz

Come join us for a fun, hands on Pickling workshop as we celebrate and preserve this years garden bounty!

We’ll be working together to make delicious preserves ahead of our Community Pot Luck event, and there will be plenty to take home too.

Weather you’re a seasoned preserver or brand new to pickling, this is a great chance to learn, share skills and connect with the other passionate people growing, cooking and sharing Kai in the neighbourhood.

🌱Bring along anything you’d like to contribute from your own garden

🌻learn pickling and preserving skills and share your own knowledge

🌿meet amazing growers and food lovers in our community

All welcome, we’d love to grow our community

Sunday 1st March, 2pm

Island Bay Community Centre

Join us for a volunteer working bee to build, dig, plant, weed, and spread mulch. We'll provide the tools, materials, and instructions.

All welcome!

It ain’t no party like the Block Party!

Saturday 28 February 2026
 10:00am – 7:00pm
 Sheffield Street & Birmingham Street, Paraparaumu
 Food • Music • Brews • Markets • Family Fun

The Block Party is back and once again, Sheffield and Birmingham Streets are closing ranks for a full day of neighbourhood energy, local flavour and good times.

We'll be there alongside our good friends at Kaibosh Kāpiti. Head down the laneway at 4 Sheffield Street, which will have great brews and bites from Duncan's Brewing, Dark Horse Coffee plus the Kaibosh Smoothie Bikes too!

This business-led street party brings together Kāpiti’s food, drink, creatives and performers to transform the area into a vibrant, walkable celebration for locals and visitors alike. Expect streets alive with music, buzzing venues, pop-ins, pop-ups and plenty of reasons to linger. Bring the whānau. Rally your mates. Start at one end of the block and see where the day takes you.

What to Expect:
While the full programme will be announced closer to the day, you can expect:
- Live music and performances throughout the streets
- Local food, brews and bites across participating venues
- Markets, creative stalls and interactive experiences
- Family-friendly activities during the day
- A relaxed, street-party atmosphere that rolls from morning into evening
Many of the same much-loved venues and spaces from last year will be back in the mix, alongside new elements and surprises for 2026.
Getting Around
- Sheffield Street and Birmingham Street will be activated for the event
- Easy pedestrian access between both streets
- Parking available nearby, with traffic management in place on the day
Spread the word, lock in the date and come celebrate the best of Kāpiti, street style.

RSVP here, invite your crew, and keep an eye out for programme announcements.

Come and join our friendly local food celebration in our lovely old local Community Hall. The meal will include locally grown and foraged ingredients as well as some from not far away. We have another delicious vegetarian menu with plant based and gluten free options, created by Leone and the Seeds-to-Feeds helpers, including:

Mushroom tortellini, ratatouille, quinoa salad, foraged salad and ciabatta and rye bread;

Fruit and nut-based cakes and desserts;

Drinks from the wild South Coast.

We can’t wait to share beautiful kai from our ngāhere and local mārakai with you!

Please sign up soon so that we have a good idea of numbers leading up to the event. Bookings are koha based, with a recommended $20 for an adult and $10 for a child if you can afford it. Otherwise you can just pay what you can afford, or if you can't afford anything we don't mind, we'd love to see you anyway!

Book here: https://events.humanitix.com/haewai-summer-celebration-dinner

Houghton Valley Community Hall
80 Houghton Bay Road

COME AND SHARE THE ABUNDANCE FROM YOUR GARDEN AT THE ISLAND BAY CROP SWAP! ITS VALENTINES DAY, SO LET'S SUPPORT EVERYONE TO CELEBRATE BY BRINGING - FLOWERS, STRAWBERRIES OR THE BAKING YOU WOOED YOUR PARTNER/FRIENDS WITH!

EVERYONE AND ALL CONTRIBUTIONS WELCOME

DON'T HAVE ANYTHING TO SHARE? COME ALONG ANYWAY.

GATHER AT THE ISLAND BAY COMMUNITY CENTRE AT 12.30 FOR CAKE & A CUPPA, SHARING BEGINS FROM 1PM.

Taputeranga Island Bay, Community Centre, 137 The Parade

A fun, family-friendly event celebrating growing kai together.

Bring seeds or seedlings to share, or just come along. There’ll be plenty to go around, plus seed-sowing for tamariki. Seeds to Feeds will be there for kōrero and connection around home-grown veggies. All welcome. Noexperience needed.

Island Bay Seeds to Feeds have a wonderful stall planned for the festival, alongside Kaibosh, the Community Orchard and more! A fantastic day for the whole family!

Crop Swap gatherings are for everyone who is happy to share.

Just bring your garden's and kitchen's surplus, turn up in time (or even a little earlier to help with the set up), display your treasures nicely, admire your fellow crop swappers goodies, mix and mingle,
share your best jam recipe and enjoy the presence of people who find joy in the moneyless exchange of abundance.

Once everyone is officially welcomed and the sharing is opened you are invited to mindfully take what you are interested in. Everything is there to go to a new home.
Take your time and keep other's in mind, the slower ones, the children, the elders, so that everyone has the chance to fill their baskets.
After this please help with the clean up, get home safely and tell everyone, how awesome it was.
Next time, bring a friend

Join us for a volunteer working bee to build, dig, plant, weed, and spread mulch. We'll provide the tools, materials, and instructions.

All welcome!

Learn & Create: Discover how to create new plants from your seeds and make your own seed packets.

Seed and Seedling Share: Bring your extra seeds to swap, or just come and pick up some new ones - we have plenty!

Bond Street Community Container

All welcome

Our last Swap at Mirimar was such a great success, let’s do it again!

Seed and seedling swaps are an awesome opportunity for gardeners of all skill levels to collaborate and share what they might have an abundance of.

It's a great way to save money on buying new seedlings, an opportunity to learn from others, and can lead to new varietals in your māra.

Bring something to share if you can, but if not, come as you are – we'll have plenty for everyone!

For those who want to go further: a longer, more immersive foraging experience exploring lesser-travelled tracks. We’ll harvest a shared wild salad and enjoy a light lunch in THE ALICE KREB LODGE.

Requires moderate fitness · Good shoes essential

Less accessible terrain—bush paths, uneven ground.

TO BOOK EMAIL EL@SEEDSTOFEEDS.NZ

Crop Swap gatherings are for everyone who is happy to share.

Just bring your garden's and kitchen's surplus, turn up in time (or even a little earlier to help with the set up), display your treasures nicely, admire your fellow crop swappers goodies, mix and mingle,
share your best jam recipe and enjoy the presence of people who find joy in the moneyless exchange of abundance.

Once everyone is officially welcomed and the sharing is opened you are invited to mindfully take what you are interested in. Everything is there to go to a new home.
Take your time and keep other's in mind, the slower ones, the children, the elders, so that everyone has the chance to fill their baskets.
After this please help with the clean up, get home safely and tell everyone, how awesome it was.
Next time, bring a friend

A gentle, accessible introduction to local edible plants. We’ll stroll easy paths, learn to identify common wild foods, and finish with a shared morning tea at the Community Centre.

All ages welcome · Suitable for beginners

What to bring: comfy shoes, water bottle, TOTE BAG

to book email el@seedstofeeds.nz

Seed and Seedling Share: Bring your extra seeds and seedlings to swap, or just come and pick up some new ones - we have plenty!

Learn & Create: Discover how to create new plants from your seeds and make your own seed packets.

All welcome!

Haewai Houghton Valley is kicking off this year’s Seeds-to-Feeds local food festival with a lunch that celebrates the fresh kai that is springing up wild in our gardens and on the hillsides. Come and enjoy a delicious vegetarian meal (vegan and gluten free available too).

The menu includes soup, bread and spreads, foraged salad, vegetable savouries, cakes and tea and coffee.

Tickets are $15 plus a small booking fee. The first $5 will go towards the wonderful work that the Seeds-to-Feeds team continues to do for us. The $10 plus any more you wish to donate on top of that will go towards Haewai Houghton Valley community projects.

We're starting a new group dedicated to building a kai secure Island Bay, and we'd love for you to be a part of it!

When: Saturday, 18th October, 10 am - 2 pm

Where: Seed to Sea, 38 The Parade, Island Bay

What to expect:

Seed and Seedling Share: Bring your extra seeds and seedlings to swap, or just come and pick up some new ones - we have plenty!

Learn & Create: Discover how to create new plants from your seeds and make your own seed packets.

Delicious Treats: Enjoy coffee, fresh herbal tea, and tasty treats.

Garden Open Day: Explore the beautiful garden at Seed to Sea and meet the chooks!

Share Your Ideas: We want to hear your thoughts on how we can create a kai secure Island Bay.

Seed and seedling swaps are an awesome opportunity for gardeners of all skill levels to collaborate and share what they might have an abundance of.

It's a great way to save money on buying new seedlings, an opportunity to learn from others, and can lead to new varietals in your māra.

Bring something to share if you can, but if not, come as you are – we'll have plenty for everyone!

ALL WELCOME to join a community SPRING CELEBRATION!

Join us for a morning of spring goodness, a community-led crop swap, some kids spring activities, potluck lunch - bring some kai to share!

Community Rooms, 263 Rintoul St, Berhampore, Wellington

Saturday 18th October

10:30am Join us for tea & coffee - this is when garden/items on table

11am Crop Swap starts

Followed by a shared potluck lunch - bring some kai to share!

Celebrating Spring with Crop Swap Te Whanganui a Tara and Wellington supported by our friends at Peoples, Te Toi Mahana & Seeds to Feeds.