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!

Back by popular demand, OFN is reprising our Digging In event (first hosted by Toitū last October) on 11 April at 2pm as part of the Wild Dunedin Festival. Please come along and hear from Kim Reilly and Sue Smith about how previous generations fed themselves. There will also be a presentation and discission to finish off as to ways we can look to hark to the past to become less reliant on global supply chains.

All welcome, nibbles will be provided.

Seniors Climate Action Network invites you to thrir next presentation on Monday March 30, entitled Climate Change and Health, Implications for a "Just Transition". The talk will be held at 12 noon in the Dunningham Suite, 4th Floor of the Dunedin Public Library, followed by refreshments. Alex is a public health doctor and Professor of environmental public health at Ōtākou Whakaihu Waka University of Otago. She is the tangata Tiriti co-Director of Climate Health Aotearoa, a national research centre, and the tangata Tiriti co-Chair of the Otago Housing Alliance. Her research, teaching and service is at the intersections between healthy ecological systems, human health and fairness. Much of it involves working with colleagues in housing, transport, urban planning, and local government on climate change mitigation and adaptation.

From 2pm-4:30pm in Outram and cost $45 per person which includes refreshments. 

If you would like any more information, or if you’re keen to secure your spot, email garden2market569@gmail.com

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South Dunedin Street Festival brings people together to connect, celebrate and support each other. The day showcases the community through performance, art, fun activities, tempting food treats, and exciting and varied market stalls. It is an opportunity for community organisations to widen their reach and understanding of their work, and for stallholders to show and sell their wares.

We’re thrilled to announce a special visit from the New Zealand Bumblebee Conservation Trust. They’ll be bringing along a fully secure perspex bumblebee hive, giving everyone the rare chance to watch a live colony in action.
This interactive session takes you on a lively, fact‑packed journey into the world of bumblebees — nature’s powerhouse pollinators and a vital part of our food system. You’ll learn about their history in Aotearoa, what makes them such exceptional pollinators, and how they differ from our familiar honeybees.
Join us in the Rimu Room, Level 6, Dunedin Community House, 43 Princes St, on Thursday 12 March at 5:30pm. Nibbles will be provided. Come along and leave saying, “I never knew that!”

If you are looking to improve your soil and enhance the health, vitality and flavour of your future summer - and year-round - harvests, then come join us in Harwood

https://www.organicsunearthed.com/workshops

If you are looking to improve your soil and enhance the health, vitality and flavour of your future summer - and year-round - harvests, then come join

https://www.organicsunearthed.com/workshops

It will run from 2pm-4:30pm in Outram and cost $45 per person which includes refreshments. 

If you would like any more information, or if you’re keen to secure your spot, email garden2market569@gmail.com

Seniors Climate Action Network invites you to Emeritus Professor John Drummond's presentation, a stocktake on what has changed in the 38 years since James Hansen brought the growing impacts of climate change to the world's attention.

The presentation will be held in the Dunninghame Suite of the Dunedin Public Library at 12 noon on Monday February 23, followed by light refreshments and an opportunity for further conversations.