Toru Partners

On the hills of Peka Peka, Living Ground offers workshops on permaculture, non-violent communication, and more recently on death and dying.

Raumati Eco-Hub @ Raumati Technology Centre is developing a food forest, māra kai, waterwise swale gardens and a small nursery area. We also host community education in all areas of sustainability from recycling to papermaking.

Raumati Technology Centre educates 1,000 Year 7-8 students (age 10-13) from 11 different Kāpiti schools each week, in technology and design relating to food, science, woodwork, electronics, film, arts, textiles and sustainability.

Here at HUMAN we give you the skills to connect more deeply with your surroundings and to begin seeing with new eyes all that is on offer in our abundant environment. From wild food foraging to bird language, tracking, bushcraft and survival skills to parenting techniques, wandering and nature connection for kids, we have such potential, join us to find out how much we all can remember.
HUMAN is based up the Otaki Gorge on a wonderful piece of land overlooking and wandering down to the Otaki River. It offers an ideal edge between the busy-ness world and the “wild” places.

Nestled alongside the Mangaroa River in Te Awa Kairangi Hutt Valley water catchment, Mangaroa Farms is a resilient community food hub and education centre. A living laboratory for transitioning dairy & pine into regenerative agriculture & native forests.

POG is Paekākāriki’s Community Gardening group. We are working together to make Paekākāriki a place of abundant organic food production – in home gardens, on berms, at the school – and, in the longer term, to establish a substantial community orchard and garden. We run a community orchard and garden – and your are welcome to join us for gardening bees.

You can adopt a fruit tree to look after by contacting us as part of our Paekākariki Orchard tree guardianship scheme,.

Or find out more and join our Pae Cycle community recycling scheme.

This space will use our shared experience and wisdom, as well as leaning on the tools of The Work That Reconnects, Indigenous wisdom and much more.

As hosts we are not experts - we just appreciate the value of this sort of space so have taken the initiative to create it.

You do not need to be familiar or have experience with any of these tools, this is a space to learn and grow together, from where ever we are each starting from.

For more info about WTR: https://workthatreconnects.org/

Garden for Life - an inspirational garden, growing quality food to share with family & friends.
Helen Dew is sharing her many years of knowledge and experience from her home garden. It translates into many practical inspirations that lead to amore sustainable lifestyle.

We dream of a world where communities are connected, empowered and activated to exercise sovereignty over their food systems, starting in our own backyard of Te Puni (Epuni Fairfield), Te Awa Kairangi ki Tai (Lower Hutt).

Common Unity Project Aotearoa is a registered charity and well known community hub. We empower our community to grow, connect, regenerate, learn and remember. We celebrate the abundance of gifts in our community and work hard to address challenges that affect us all.