#aotearoa — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #aotearoa, aggregated by home.social.
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#Aotearoa / #NewZealand - #CropSwap in The Valley
Sunday, 30 August 2026
3:00 pm to 4:00 pmThe Valley Project
262 North Road
Dunedin, Otago Region, 9010 New Zealand"Connecting with your community can really help to build resilience when times are tough. Head along to Crop Swap in the Valley this Sunday - you'll head home with some yummy kai to try and fill your bucket with like-minded connections at the same time! See you at the Valley Project, 262 North Road, at 3pm on the last Sunday of every month. Come let’s swap together!"
FMI:
https://www.ourfoodnetwork.org.nz/events/crop-swap-in-the-valley-3#SolarPunkSunday #BuildingCommunity #BuildingResiliency #Kai #SharingKnowledge
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"We like to come out here. You realise that you're lucky, how lucky you are that we're able to do this. If we can make Andy's day well, hey that's the icing on the cake."
#Aotearoa #NewZealand #Fonterra #kindness
Fonterra's Milk Tankers Were A... -
"We like to come out here. You realise that you're lucky, how lucky you are that we're able to do this. If we can make Andy's day well, hey that's the icing on the cake."
https://blog.mikeriversdale.co.nz/2026/08/fonterras-milk-tankers-were-andrew.html
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Some things National + friends did, 2023 - 2026
I’ve been taking notes since 2023. Here they are, grouped by depravity level (subjective, yes, I know) and sorted by date within each group. Please share this widely as the election draws near. The last 3 weeks of the campaign are crucial and when this information will make the most difference.
Where possible the minister responsible is noted although really they are all collectively responsible.
It’s a lot. As you get into it your eyes will glaze over a bit and you’ll start skimming. Try to sit with each item and really feel it.
High Depravity
- Resume oil exploration - An environmental item from 4 November 2023 attributed to Everyone; Labour & Greens banned offshore oil exploration in 2018, and this repeals that ban.
- Treaty referendum - From 8 November 2023, driven by David Seymour.
- Increase smoking addiction and death - health action from 1 December 2023; Chris Bishop used to be a lobbyist for the tobacco industry which explains a lot.
- Landlord tax cuts - action from 12 March 2024 delivering a $2.9b tax cut for landlords.
- Bad insulation - from 18 July 2024.
- Reduced pay for women - employment action from 8 May 2025, driven by Brooke van Velden.
- 100,000 homeless - A housing action, in progress since 1 June 2025, attributed to Everyone.
- More fossil fuels - action from 1 June 2025, attributed to Simon Watts.
- End emissions reporting - environmental action from 15 August 2025 by Simon Watts; three major emitters no longer have to report emissions, making the whole exercise useless.
- Gut Zero Carbon Act - action from 6 November 2025, attributed to Simon Watts.
- Abolish regional councilors - An environmental action from 25 November 2025 by Chris Bishop, sharply reducing environmental protections.
- 2026 and still building fossil fuel infra - An environmental item from 9 February 2026 by Simon Watts, concerning an LNG import terminal.
- Abolish the ministry for the environment - An environmental action, in progress since 16 February 2026, attributed to Penny Simmonds.
- Change law to prevent climate lawsuits - An environmental action begun 12 May 2026, attributed to Paul Goldsmith.
- Fast track corruption - action from 26 May 2026, attributed to Everyone.
- Highest homelessness in history - housing action from 28 May 2026, attributed to Everyone.
- MMP referendum - A society action, in progress since 6 August 2026, driven by Chris Luxon.
Medium Depravity
- Houses unaffordable - A to-do housing item; more sprawl means higher rates and more driving (no start date recorded).
- Pollute rivers and groundwater - An environment/health action currently in progress starting from 2023.
- Encourage sales of gas guzzlers - An environmental item from 31 December 2023 attributed to Everyone; repealing the Clean Car Discount that taxed large utes and subsidised EVs and hybrids.
- More roads, more cars - An environmental item from 31 December 2023; the more roads you build, the more people drive, the more emissions there are.
- Remove first home buyer subsidy - action begun 5 June 2024; during the election they had promised to keep this subsidy.
- Block Otago water rules - environmental action from 18 October 2024; Otago wanted to limit water takes from rivers but the government stopped them.
- Seabed mining instead of windmills - action from 18 October 2024.
- Fucked up ferries - action from 12 December 2024.
- Regulatory standards bill - An action in progress since 1 February 2025, driven by David Seymour.
- Boot Camp - action from 7 November 2025.
- Reject Climate Change Commission recommendations - action begun 4 December 2025, attributed to Simon Watts.
- Constitutional vandalism - human rights action from 12 April 2026, attributed to Everyone.
Low Depravity
- Cancelled Lake Onslow battery - environment/energy action from 4 December 2023 by Simeon Brown, made before the feasibility study could be completed.
- Remove the Auckland Regional Fuel Tax - environment/transport item from 31 December 2023.
- Increase road deaths - A to-do transport item from 31 December 2023; raising speed limits means more people will die on the roads.
- Richard Prebble appointed to Waitangi Tribunal - action from 18 October 2024.
- Importing Russian oil - An action in progress that started 11 November 2025.
- Criminalise Rough Sleeping - housing action from 23 February 2026, driven by Paul Goldsmith.
- Rejection of WHO pandemic rules - action from 7 April 2026, attributed to Simeon Brown.
So there you have it. The last 3 years have been a trainwreck that was especially hard to watch - taking notes during it was my way of coping. I hope it makes a difference.
Once again, please share this with anyone capable of changing their minds. And/or bookmark this, you’ll need it later.
There will be SO much that I missed out. Education and health is a true mess at the moment but that’s not where my attention goes a lot of the time. Please add what you have in the comments, with a news link if possible.
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Nutrition programs work better when they include #Indigenous food knowledge
Researchers found nutrition programs work better when they include Indigenous food knowledge, local languages, and traditional practices.
By Raquel Brandao, July 24, 2026
Excerpt: "Cameras, cooking and conversation
"Some things worked. #Storytelling, #workshops, and #CookingDemonstrations turned up again and again across the 39 studies, alongside #TalkingCircles, #ShortFilms and #SmartphoneApps.
"The common thread is direction. Each of these methods lets people speak in their own words rather than sit and receive instruction.
"In #NewZealand ( #Aotearoa ), researchers built a mobile health app together with #Māori and #Pasifika partners. The language, the stories, and the pictures all came from the communities the app was meant for.
"Speaking with Earth.com, Rao described a project she led. 'In my own work, and one of the papers reviewed, I have used cameras and #DigitalTools with young women and men in an Indigenous community in #India to document their traditional food knowledges by speaking to the elders, visiting the forests and local markets, talking to women engaged in #foraging and #FoodPreparation.'
"That project is one of the 39 studies in the review. An earlier paper followed ten Santhal young people in eastern India who were trained to make films.
"They made nearly 50 films and screened them in their own villages. Older relatives supplied much of what went into them.
Elders as teachers
"Who holds the knowledge matters as much as what the knowledge is. #Elders, #healers, #farmers, and #women each carry different parts of it.
"None of it arrives as a curriculum. It moves between generations through cooking, gathering and long conversation, which is exactly what a nutrition leaflet cannot carry.
" 'Reclaiming and recognising #IndigenousKnowledge , values and practices to address the different elements of nutrition and health involves recognising intergenerational and wider social relations, and engaging everyone from the elders, healers, educators and farmers to service providers, policymakers and academics, to together raise issues and find solutions,' said Rao.
"Traditional foods carry knowledge of the local landscape in a way nothing else does. The review treats them as practical resources rather than heritage."
#SolarPunkSunday #Technology #IndigenousCommunities #TraditionalKnowledge #TraditionalDiets #FoodForests #Foraging #SharingKnowledge #PreservingCulture #TraditionalEcologicalKnowledge #FoodKnowledge #TraditionalFoods
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It's a rare day when a YouTube notification is the distilled essence of eternal truth - I did not need to click on it to check.
#Aotearoa -
The current #NZPol government and space minister Nick Goldsmith are accused of being complicit in the #Gaza genocide.
It’s great we still have strong independent voices like Public Interest NZ to do the work our complicit #NZMedia dare not touch.
A new lawsuit alleges satellites launched from #Aotearoa #NewZealand by Rocket Lab may be providing intelligence used by #Israel in #Gaza.
Ollie Neas speaks to plaintiff Yasser Abdulaal, a Palestinian New Zealander, and his lawyer Sam Vincent about the case, Rocket Lab’s role as a #US military contractor, and what it could mean for New Zealand’s involvement in the war.
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Re: Plantation forestry in #Aotearoa.
The total area of productive plantation #forestry has remained relatively stable this century, at about 1.8 M ha, or 6.6% of Aotearoa. Early in the century quite large areas were converted to farmland, and recent afforestation has largely offset this. In addition to the 1.8 M there is about 0.2 M ha of reserves and unplanted areas near water bodies. #nzpol #ets #forest -
#Auckland -#CompostCollective - Free #LoveYourLeftovers workshop: #ZestyCitrus Session – Birkenhead
Sunday, 16 August 2026
11:00 am - 1:00 pm#BirkenheadLibrary
Nell Fisher Reserve, Hinemoa Street, Birkenhead, 0626, Auckland"Come along to Pip’s Love Food Hate Waste workshop and get tips and tricks for what to do with left over #citrus, including zesty sprinkle and #OrangePeel cleaner.
You’ll also get great advice about how to store your fresh food and leftovers, to help them last longer. Making the most of the food we have helps save money and is better for the environment.
Hosted by #LoveFoodHateWaste tutor Pip, and proudly brought to you by #EcoMatters, thanks to Auckland Council.
Most Compost Collective workshops are free to attend, though some special events may require a ticket fee."
Learn more and to register:
https://compostcollective.org.nz/events/free-love-your-leftovers-workshop-zesty-citrus-session-birkenhead/#SolarPunkSunday #LoveFood #LibrariesRule #Aotearoa #NewZealand #FoodWaste #FoodStorage #DIYCleaners #CitrusCleaners
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Minor Hotels to open Avani Queenstown in September
https://lucire.com/insider/20260810/minor-hotels-to-open-avani-queenstown-in-september/ #Volante #travel #Queenstown #NZ #Aotearoa #hotel #AvaniHotels
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"Retirement villages skew overwhelmingly Pākehā. In the 2023 census, about 83% of New Zealanders aged 65 and over identified as European. But for retirement village residents, that number jumped to a massive 96.9%, with just 1.8% Asian and 0.4% Pacific.
... In Auckland, Pacific elders are both the most likely to have a disability (and at younger ages) and the least likely to receive aged care within a facility."
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Interesting to see some parties engaging in this important, but ignored topic.
As usual, National is nowhere to be seen on this issue.Long Covid sufferers call on politicians to do more to help those with the disease
https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/politics/952056/long-covid-sufferers-call-on-politicians-to-do-more-to-help-those-with-the-disease -
"Rather than chasing the need to belong through assimilation and engaging in the ‘model minority’ myth, we migrants can choose ‘unbelonging’. To unbelong is to deliberately reject the terms by which the settler state offers inclusion.” — Ara Alam-Simmons.
#racism #aotearoa #migrants https://e-tangata.co.nz/comment-and-analysis/unbelonging-when-migrants-refuse-the-bargain/?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=09Aug2026 -
I suspect NZ is yet to feel or understand the full consequences of its immoral and unlawful support for Trump’s illegal war on Iran.
I regularly listen to the intelligent and honest words of Iranian professor, Seyed Mohammad Marandi who’s analysis of the current situation is incredibly accurate and forthright.
No one should be under any illusion of who the war criminals responsible for this idiot environmental, economic and geopolitical disaster are but to think our morally bankrupt moron of a prime minister not only supports this illegal war but actually expressed an interest of #Aotearoa #NZ joining the US and Israel in this “war of aggression”, which, by the way, is considered the “ultimate war crime” by the Nuremberg Tribunal tells you we’re on the wrong side of history. A fact that hasn’t gone unnoticed by the Iranians.
Something Professor Seyed Mohammad Marandi is always prepared to point out about both Australia and New Zealand. The ramifications for this immoral and dangerous alliance are yet to emerge but I suspect with Iran fully committed to preventing any oil destined to US, Israel and its allies pass through the Strait of Hormuz I suspect the consequences of our idiot PM will definitely not be kind to the good people of NZ.
I would happily support Winston Peters and Christopher Luxon being faced with an ICC investigation although I suspect they will be well down the list of western war criminals. #NZPol
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#Aotearoa / #NewZealand - Flower Garden Diary: August
Posted by Troppo
On August 1, 2021"August (late winter) brings specific tasks for flower beds, shrubs and seasonal colour in New Zealand gardens. This diary covers early- and mid-month jobs for temperate and subtropical climates.
Early August
1. Soil Preparation
Weed and Clear: Remove weeds and debris from your flower beds to make space for new growth.
Soil Testing: Test your soil pH and nutrient levels. Amend the soil with compost or organic matter to improve its fertility and structure.2. Pruning and Cutting Back
Prune Shrubs and Trees: Prune deciduous shrubs and trees to shape them and remove any dead or diseased wood.
Cut Back Perennials: Trim back perennials that have finished flowering to tidy up the garden and promote healthy growth.Mid-August
1. Planting
Winter and Early Spring Flowers: Plant roses, gladiolus, crocus, hebes, lavender, lavatera, nemesia, azaleas, rhododendrons, pansies, violas, bellis, calendula, clematis, lilies, forget-me-nots, and cyclamen. These flowers will start to bloom as the weather warms up.
Prepare for Summer Bulbs: Plan and order your summer-flowering bulbs to plant later in the season.2. Mulching
Mulch Beds: Apply mulch around your plants to protect them from late frosts, retain moisture, and suppress weeds. Organic mulches like straw, bark chips, or compost work well.
3. Watering
Consistent Watering: Ensure your plants are getting enough water, especially during dry spells. Water deeply to encourage strong root growth but avoid overwatering.
Late August
1. Fertilizing
Feed New Plantings: Apply a balanced fertilizer to your newly planted flowers to support their growth and blooming. Follow the product instructions for the best results.
2. Pest and Disease Control
Monitor for Pests: Watch out for pests like aphids and slugs. Use organic pest control methods such as neem oil, insecticidal soap, or hand-picking.
Check for Diseases: Look for signs of fungal diseases like powdery mildew. Remove affected leaves and consider using a fungicide if needed.3. Garden Planning
Spring Layout: Plan your spring garden layout. Decide which new plants to add and where they will go. Make a list of seeds and plants to purchase.
What to Pick
1. Flowers for Picking
Early Spring Blooms: In August, you can pick Daphne, warratah, protea, azaleas, daffodils, tulips, hyacinths, camellias, viburnum, europs, wallflowers, winter roses, hellebores, dianthus, iberis, kowhai, flowering kale, and pieris. These flowers will add color and fragrance to your home.
2. Indoor Arrangements
Create Bouquets: Use the flowers you pick to create beautiful indoor arrangements. They will bring a touch of your garden’s spring beauty inside.
General Tips for August
- Garden Clean-Up: Keep your garden tidy by regularly removing fallen leaves, dead plants, and debris.
- Protect Plants: Use frost cloths or covers to protect tender plants from any late frosts.
- Tool Maintenance: Clean and sharpen your gardening tools. Well-maintained tools make gardening easier and more effective.By following this flower gardener’s diary, you’ll ensure your garden is well-prepared and flourishing as spring approaches. Happy gardening!"
#SolarPunkSunday #WinterGardenPrep #GrowYourOwn #GardenPrep #Gardening
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#AucklandNZ - Free Introduction to #Composting Workshop – #Whangaparaoa
Saturday, 15 August 2026
10:30 am - 12:00 pm#WhangaparāoaLibrary
9 Main Street, Stanmore Bay, Whangaparaoa, 0932, Auckland"Join Sarah Williams at Whangaparaoa Library for this free workshop. It offers an introduction to composting with the three most common and easy composting systems that can be used in the home and garden; traditional cold composting bins, worm farms and #Bokashi buckets. Sarah will have examples of the systems and walk you through setting them up from scratch and how to keep them going using your #FoodScraps and/or garden waste. Come and discover how easy it is and what suits you best!
To help you on your way, all confirmed workshop participants get a 50% discount voucher to order a compost system through our website and we’ll deliver it straight to your door. Plus, you’ll also receive a free rat trap to help keep pests under control!
This workshop is proudly supported by Auckland Council, Whangaparaoa Library and delivered by the #CompostCollective .
Most Compost Collective workshops are free to attend, though some special events may require a ticket fee."
FMI and to register:
https://compostcollective.org.nz/events/free-introduction-to-composting-workshop-whangaparaoa/#SolarPunkSunday #Workshops
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#AuklandNZ - Free #LoveFood #HateWaste Workshop – #Microgreens and #Sprouts – Devonport
Sunday, 9 August 2026
#DevonportLibrary
2 Victoria Road, Devonport, 0624, Auckland"Join Sarah Williams at Devonport Library for this Love Food Hate Waste Workshop – grow your own micro-greens and sprouts.
Learn how to cultivate these nutritious greens at home, from seed to harvest. Participants will make their own tray of micro-greens to take home so please bring a plastic container and lid such as a shallow take away container.
Micro-greens and sprouts have nutritional value and are also a cost effective green food that you can grow in your home all year round, saving plastic and food waste.
We’ll get hands on and make dips and dressings using the micro-greens and back of the fridge items – showing you how to get creative with reducing food waste.
The workshop will also cover practical advice on how to avoid food waste in the kitchen including #MealPlanning and how to store fresh produce to help it last longer.
This Love Food Hate Waste workshop is proudly supported by #AucklandCouncil, Devonport Library and is delivered by #CompostCollective."
#SolarPunkSunday #Workshops #Aotearoa #NewZealand #GrowYourOwn #GrowYourOwnFood
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Our last view of Bush Point at Taipa Beach for a few weeks. Off to Europe. #aotearoa #doubtlessbay #sea
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Kiwi indie feature Pop to receive nationwide release in October
https://lucire.com/insider/20260807/kiwi-indie-feature-pop-to-receive-nationwide-release-in-october/ #film #NZ #Aotearoa #IndependentFilm #living #Wellington #Wellywood #teWhanganuiaTara #PopTheFilm
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I released Let Time Keep Ticking - Vol 3 of my music archive project about 3 -4 weeks ago but yet to promote it, however, seeing it's #BandcampFriday it would be silly not to give it a nudge to the #Bandcamp supporters out there on #Mastodon.
This eclectic collection of songs and music I wrote and recorded on 4 track between 1991 & 1993 in Wellington #Aotearoa #NewZealand has been remixed and remastered from the original 4 track recordings.
https://jupiterjones2.bandcamp.com/album/let-time-keep-ticking-vol-3-1991-1993
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dartz - the band from wellington nz
https://smokedartz.bandcamp.com/album/the-band-from-wellington-new-zealand
