Kaicycle Urban Farm and Composting

08/04/2025

Three more days to apply to join our team as a Community Farm Manager!

We're hiring for a new Community Farm Manager to work alongside Rose at our urban farm. This role integrates gardening mahi with our community programme, working closely with the whenua, volunteers, visitors, and our wider community networks.
All the deets can be found on our website: https://kaicycle.org.nz/jobs

03/04/2025

If you wanna get your hands on some of our ātaahua compost from the Hotrot machine, we will have some available at our Community Open Day this Saturday. $25 for 40L you can pick up a bag from the farm anytime between 9am - 3pm. We can take cash or bank transfer 🪱

01/04/2025

Awesome opportunity for a small business looking for space in Pōneke! Please help us spread the word...

We are looking for a new subtenant to join the awesome Cairns Street Hub in Rongotai! It’s the perfect setup for a business with smaller space needs, with the added benefit of a friendly, supportive and collaborative environment. This is a shared space, and you'd be joining the wonderful people behind Yum Jar NZ, Nonstop Solutions and Organic Waste Management.

The space includes:
👍 45m2 high-stud warehouse space
👍 3-4 desk spaces/extra storage
👍 2 carparks in the front yard
👍 8m2 storage space in the secure side yard

Ideal move in date is during May/June.

Find out more here ⬇️

We are looking for a new subtenant to join the Cairns Street Hub! This affordable shared warehouse and office space in Rongotai houses three small businesses...

21/03/2025

We're hiring for a new Community Farm Manager to work alongside Rose at our urban farm. This role integrates gardening mahi with our community programme, working closely with the whenua, volunteers, visitors, and our wider community networks.
All the deets can be found on our website: https://kaicycle.org.nz/jobs

20/03/2025

The end of raumati is proving a lovely time in the garden as we see our plants complete their natural cycles and we get to do some seed saving! It's a good feeling to know that we are able to sustain some of our own seed stores in this way and ready ourselves for next spring with seed that we know the whakapapa of - from plants that have acclimatised to our hyper-local area and have been grown in a regenerative Hua Parakore way. Seed saving is often the missing link in local food resilience and helps our māra system to be closer to circular with less external inputs required. And it's often really easy! Things like tomatoes and flowers are incredibly easy to save seed from, so if you're lucky enough to have a māra of your own why not give it a go. We'd love to do some trading and seed swaps with other gardeners to help keep the genetic diversity of our seed up and our crops vigorous and flourishing 💪

Recently we have been saving seed from our sunflowers, coriander, poppies, scabiosa, climbing beans, tomatoes (second generation Kaicycle seed 💚 ), sweet peas and oats. We have an abundance of corianader seed so if you would like some to grow or cook with let us know!

26/02/2025

Check out our latest blog post, about bumper crops, seed saving and donating kai.

The summer abundance is still upon us - our zucchinis and cucumbers have had a truly bumper season, tomatoes are ripe, and we look forward to harvesting sweetcorn and blue corn soon! Nevertheless, it cannot be denied that the sun is setting earlier in the evening and we’re starting to transition o...

14/02/2025

We’re hiring for a key role in our team!

We’re looking for someone with great communication skills, tech competence and a knack for streamlining processes to become our Administrative Manager. If you’re an organisational legend looking for a computer-based role to make your own, enjoy a varied and flexible work week, and want to be part of an awesome team delivering positive outcomes for our Pōneke community and ecosystem, we would love to hear from you!

To see the full job advertisement and how to apply, visit https://jobs.dogoodjobs.co.nz/job/17250/administrative-manager/

This is a 20 hour/week position, with flexible days and hours, and scope to increase to 25+ hours per week.

Applications close 5pm, Friday 7th March 2025 🌱

03/02/2025

We're so pleased to be able to share our little spot with Te Motu Kairangi for some raranga sessions. If you are interested in learning or practicing raranga, Te Motu Kairangi host regular sessions around Te Whanganui a Tara 💚

21/01/2025

Composting jobs are back on the menu for our Thursday volunteering sessions, 4-6pm! Join us if you’d like some satisfying cardio turning compost piles, and to help give our composting area a makeover!
Over the next few weeks, we’re refreshing the pest proofing on our compost boxes, installing some new boxes, and making some better lids for them.
You can sign up for a volunteering session at our Newtown urban farm and compost hub at the link in our bio.
Look forward to seeing you there!

09/01/2025

We’re excited to be co-hosting this event with next month, rsvp mai💖🌈🌿

Come connect over convolvulus, q***r out over kopakopa, meet your new sweetheart while pulling up buttercup. This fun and dirty event will involve sharing kōrero and knowledge about lesser loved plants more commonly referred to as weeds, hands on māra activities like weeding, harvesting and planting while having a chance for cute chats with everyone there. Your matchmaker and host for the day will be local takatāpui māra fairy Tina Walker-Ferguson.

This event is designed for Takatāpui Māori, 18+. For our Takatāpui whānau that aren’t currently looking for love, but keen to come for the opportunity to hang out with other takaz in the māra, you are so welcome! We’ll have a way of showing who’s single and seeking, or taken and chilling. Takatāpui Māori katoa - nau mai, haere mai xx

This is a collaborative event organised by a local food sovereignty organisation called Kaicycle and Takatāpui arts collective Utu a Matimati.

RSVP essential, please fill out RSVP form here: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfq30j0kJj6FrKBTmLgaqMQYqdGsvo6c4JcN3O4XLbvB6np6A/viewform?usp=header

Contact [email protected] or on instagram for any pātai.

19/12/2024

We're sad to say that we've made the tough call to CANCEL tomorrow's summer solstice event. With an iffy weather forecast and end of year sickness we've decided it's best not to go ahead. We hope you all find other ways to celebrate the longest day and look forward to seeing you at one of our events in the new year 🌞

🌦 SILVER LINING to our cloud...

While bad weather & ill health means our Community Summer Solstice is CANCELLED... the most wonderful folk 🏆at Newtown Library 📖 who also run the very cute Newtown Seed Library 🫘🗄 are willing to host a one off of a little table of seedlings from the kaimahi of Crop Swap Te Whanganui a Tara, Kaicycle Urban Farm and Composting & Wellington Timebank for giving away...

So this Saturday 21 December in celebration of the Summer Solstice there will be a small tray of lovely seedlings 🪴🪴🪴ready to be popped into your garden or given away as xmas goodies!

ONLY this *Saturday 21 December* from 10am until 3pm - or stocks run out - which ever comes first!