Grey Lynn 2030 Transition Community

All over Auckland working bees are happening with the community taking the lead on climate solutions. There are almost 6000 work parties registered world wide. Find out about the huge number of events in Auckland here to get involved in a fun familyday of action.

Where do you plan to be? At Shed 1 , 101 Halsey Street, Viaduct Harbour from 10am – 4pm you can take part in two different work parties

Get Growing Auckland

Growing your own organic food is great for you and great for the planet. We want to show Aucklanders how easy and enjoyable urban gardening can be and challenge them to give it a try.

Come along to:

• Plant a seed to take home
• See creative container gardening displays
• Hear from experienced urban gardeners
• Learn about how you can upcycle materials for a truly environmentally friendly garden
• Win prizes
• + more!

Bring the kids. We’re planning some fun activities

350 Big Bike Fix Up

Between 10am and 4pm this Sunday 10th October Shed 1, 101 Halsey Street on Auckland’s stunning Viaduct Harbour there is a huge fix-up happening and a whole lot more:

Tonzu sausage sizzle and Kokako Organic refreshments available at the venue in support of the Grey Lynn School cycle trail project. All Good bananas will be handing out fairtrade bananas between 11- 2pm.

The Big Bike Fix up has been made possible with support from the Road Safety Team Auckland City Council, Cycle Action Auckland, Tumeke Cycle Space, Adventure Cycles, T.Whites Bikes, Nextbikes, AvantiPlus Waitakere, Cycle Store and Castles Marquee Hire.

Make a day of 10/10/10 by bike
Devonport – HANDS On sustainable living skills fair
Mt Eden  – Community Garden Working Bee

Find an action near you or start your own one. Over 6500 now registered worldwide http://www.350.org/en/map#/map/-36.847385/174.765735/10

Workshop on sustainable living

Saturday 21 August 2010
9.00am – 1.00pm
St. Aidan’s Church
5 Ascot Ave, Remuera, Auckland
More details here

Mount Eden Village People Workshops  – Square Foot Gardening

Sunday  29th August Start time: 10.30am  Duration: 1-1.30 hours

Tutor: Ken Clark, SFG master from Waiheke
Location:  Mt Eden Village
Contribution: $20.00

More details here

Urban Eden Workshops with the Dirt Doctor

Dirt Doctor founder to host Urban Eden workshops in Auckland for the first time! With special guest landscape architect from One Earth Matte.

Two full-day programmes covering the complete Dirt Doctor system of gardening. A comprehensive weekend introducing a unique biological approach to micro-farm and home garden soil ecology.

Saturday, Sept 4, 9:30am-4:00pm – Urban Eden
Sunday, Sept 5, 9:30am-4:00pm – Advanced Soil Biology
Te Waipuna Puawai Community Centre
email jacob@dirtdoctor.co.nz.
www.dirtdoctor.co.nz

4 June 2010
In This Issue:

Grey Lynn 2030 Monthly Community Meeting – The Art of Grey Lynn
Grey Lynn Farmers Market – On this Weekend
Waste Away and other Focus Group updates
Winter Solstice and Matariki Celebration
Wilton Street Community Garden
Green Screen is Back!
Entertainment happening locally – supporting  the Grey Lynn RSC
Our Community – Chickens at home course

Highlights from our June issue – to receive the full version please email us at greylynn2030@gmail.com

A fresh new look for Grey Lynn 2030

Over the last month we have quietly started using our new banner and logo (you may have noticed the change to our Facebook profile)

It has taken a lot of time and talent from many people to finally reach an image which we think reflects our vision and our community.

We would like to thank the many people involved right from the beginning almost 2 years ago.

Grey Lynn 2030 Monthly Community Gathering

The Art of Grey Lynn

Come along to an evening in celebration of our local artists. A chance to mingle with the artistic talent of Grey Lynn & Westmere and find out what inspires them about their local community.

With updates on planned art events and projects – share your ideas too.

Guest speaker Bernadette Brewer from Toi Ora: Live Art Trust

With many of our local artists including Louise Rive and Chuck Joseph from Edge City (the final guest list will be on our website)

Entry by Koha. Drinks and nibbles provided

Grey Lynn Farmers Market

Sunday 9 – 12.30pm

The Grey Lynn Farmer’s Market is on this Queen’s birthday weekend! (and every Sunday except the last of the month when the Market makes way for Kraftbomb)

Waste Away

On Wednesday 19 May we teamed up with Garnet Station Café and took our passion for food waste reduction to the “street”.

With a small information stand in front of the café right next to the bus stop and with beautiful weather to support us, we spend our day talking to lots of interested passers by about home composting, worm farming and the bokashi system.

Winter Solstice and Matariki Celebration

Come and celebrate
June 26, 5.30pm
St Columba Church Hall, 92 Surrey Cres. Grey Lynn

Wilton Street Community Garden

We are looking for Volunteers to help with the garden – why not just pop in on Sunday at 10am or contact Mandy

Here is a photo of Maia taking her compost to the new Community Composting Facility located in the garden.

Green Screen is back!

Thank you to all of you who made it to see the movie ‘Dirt’ for our re-launch; it was the biggest Green Screen audience yet!. With nearly 60 people we completely filled the garden room, making it a true cosy community movie evening.

Dirt  ( http://www.dirtthemovie.org ) was a thought provoking and inspiring film highlighting the importance of restoring health to damaged soil around the world, and maintaining the areas which are still full of life. We were urged to each ”do the best we can”. This can start in our own back yards with growing some of our own food, or planting native plants. Dirt (Soil) is the ultimate natural resource for life on earth and needs our respect and care.

We welcome visitors and new members: This month apart from our members nights on a Wednesday night – we have 7 day a week faclilties-we have no cover charge for entertainment:

Entertainment Happening Locally

• Friday 4 June 8pm – band ” Easy” local lads playing reggae ska and dub
• Sunday 6 June Queens Birthday weekend 4pm band “Kiwi Express” country rock n roll  and old favourites
• Friday 11 June 8pm band “Peta & the Pois” playing pop/jazz and blues
• Friday 18 June 8pm band “The Alibis” playing jump swing and rhythm and blues
• Sunday 20 June 4pm mid winter Christmas party with band Robbie Maxwell & Dave Curltis -bring a $5 wrapped pressie and Santa will give you a pressie back- note this is R18 and for members and visitors
• Friday 25 June 8pm band “Rebel Without Applause”- rock/pop and 80′s and 90′s favourites

Enquiries greylynnrsc@hotmail.co.nz

The Wilton Street Community Garden recently completed construction of our new Community Composting Facility. Located in the garden at the top of Wilton Street, the facility consists of three large wooden bins designed to turn local organic waste into usable garden compost.

The bins are easily accessible and designed to be user friendly. Now we would love people to start using them – shops, households, offices, gardeners – anyone who has organic material currently going to ‘waste’. The bins are labelled 1,2 and 3, and only one will have the IN sign on the front at any time. This is the bin to tip your waste into, when this bin is full, the IN sign will be shifted to another bin.

The system is a trial so we would appreciate it if you would support this community facility and spread the word to others. We don’t want to encourage rats or the spread of weeds so please;

WE WELCOME

• organic green waste only – such as grass clippings, garden waste, vegetable matter, coffee grounds, non-meat food scraps.

WE DON’T WANT

• meat or fish, plastic, oil, glass, or large woody tree prunings
• no pest weeds such as oxalis, wandering jew or jasmine.

Anyone who has questions or requires a plastic bucket to transport scraps please contact Mandy. (Mandy.McMullin@xtra.co.nz)

Tour of Lynda Hallinan’s Urban Garden

It was a full garden at Lynda Hallinan’s place this afternoon as she took a large group on a tour of her urban plot.  Lynda was amazingly generous with her time and keen to offer lots of advice and answer questions. Lynda was concerned her garden was not looking its best after a long, dry summer but the results of what she has been able to grow in a very urban environment are impressive.   You can regularly find Lynda at the Grey Lynn Farmers Market selling the surplus from her garden.

Thanks to Lynda for her support of the Grey Lynn 2030 Week and to everyone who came along . We received $110 in koha which will go towards more community planting by Grey Lynn 2030.  Our next monthly meeting on April 14th is on the theme of Community Gardens and will be a good opportunity to share more details about some of the plans under way.

Hello Grey Lynn 2030ers

Nothing to do this weekend?- there is plenty on in our community starting with Art with Love 2009 – Richmond Road School’s annual public art auction

The Gallery will be open during the weekend from 11am -4pm. Coffee supplied by Coffee Supreme
Auction is being held on Tuesday 10 November at 7pm, viewing from 5pm.
check out the website for more details www.artwithlove.org
Richmond Road School 113 Richmond Road Ponsonby, gallery entrance is on Douglas Street.
Queries email ange@artwithlove.org

Grey Lynn 2030 Monthly community meeting Wednesday 11 November
We have another monthly meeting coming up next Wednesday. Keeping it quite low key this month and thinking about what we can get up to in 2010. If you have a good idea for a local project and want to raise it and get some other like minded folk to get involved here is your chance to speak up and present to the group.

Positive Vision, Practical Action evening

Grey Lynn 2030 has a vision of a self –reliant, positive, resilient, vibrant, connected and sustainable community. This month  the focus groups are updating  on making this vision a reality through practical steps. The Grey Lynn Farmers Market is a great example of what amazing results come out of our monthly meetings and community engagement.

Please come a long to get involved and share your ideas with the current focus groups (Waste Away, Traffic calming, Edgars Stream Restoration, Community gardens, Green Screen, Local Government Relations) or to get new focus groups up and running. All welcome at 7.30pm at the Grey Lynn Community Centre

Wilton St Community Garden
We had a fantastic day on Nov 4th with the BNZ CLOSED FOR GOOD crew at the garden.

We managed to clear all the rest of the jasmine and load all the pile of garden waste off the site, filling the 10 cm bin (almost all jasmine root) and paint the fence. Lesson learnt here for home gardeners, jasmine is very invasive.

The day was fine, BNZ team were lovely, we had no accidents and we even finished early. Everything ran like clockwork thanks to our incredibly fantastic team of Wilton Street gardeners who worked so hard to make the day a success – especially Jacqui for juggling childcare and taking care of the fantastic catering, Margo who took the day off work, Sarah for getting the paint donated from Ponsonby Resenes and overseeing the painting.

Thanks also to all those who contributed lovely baking and the people who dropped by during the day to see how it was all going and have a cuppa. Thanks to GL2030 for the bin.

If you are up at the Farmers Market this Sunday, do come over and see us. We are just behind the Gypsy Tea Room and we will be there on Sunday morning.

Mandy

Waste Away Group
Auckland Freecycle

Do you know about Freecycle? In Auckland there are now 1120 members and we are wishing to grow further.

Can you get involved to keep good things out of landfills and helping out our community in keeping New Zealand clean and green. So when you have something that is too much hassle to sell, you don’t want to see destroyed by the scrap metalers in the inorganic and you have nobody to give it to. Freecyle is the thing.

Once you join, please tell your friends, boss, co-workers, family, neighbours about this way of parting with usable items so that somebody else can use them.
If you got only one person to join it would make a huge difference in expanding our purpose and making our community a cleaner place to live.

http://groups.freecycle.org/aucklandfreecycle

Grey Lynn Farmers Market

Nothing much to eat in the house? Never fear, the Grey Lynn Farmers’ Market is here to entertain you this Sunday morning, plus provide you with all the fresh produce you will need for a delic\ous Sunday lunch and see you through the week to come.

Every Sunday but the last of the month the Grey Lynn Farmers’ Market stallholders are serving you with a smile and story of their local produce. From meat and fish, to nuts and honey, to the freshest vegetables of all varieties, it’s all there. And to mark the beginning of summer, fresh strawberries will be available at the market this weekend.

If you have a surplus of fresh produce or seedling, remember you can bring it along to sell or barter at the Ooooby stall. It’s a real help if you can bag it up in saleable units before you arrive and pop your name and a price on the bags.

Save the date: the Grey Lynn Farmers’ Market is hosting a Twilight Market on the last Saturday before Christmas, 19th December from 6pm to 9pm, Grey Lynn Community Centre, 510 Richmond Road, Grey Lynn.

We look forward to seeing you all at the market tomorrow.

From the Grey Lynn Farmers’ Market Committee

Grey Lynn Festival
Do you love living in Grey Lynn?… Grey Lynn Park Festival needs local volunteers for the information tent and other areas of the festival
The festival is on Saturday 28 November at Grey Lynn Park..The festival has changed over recent years. It got very big and now the aim is to bring it back to our community. If you have been scared off by the crowds in the past it is quite different now. Note the lack of big name bands and big publicity. For those of you who have been in the neighbourhood a while it is a great chance to catch up with old friends.
There are the usual smorgasboard of stalls and activities going on through the day, there will be a surprise around every corner! Grey Lynn 2030 will be there in the community space with the community gardens, the Farmers Market and other local groups.

Visit the KidZone on the top field
If your child would like to have a children’s stall, we will have a free marketplace area especially set up from 10 -12 for traders under 13 please register beforehand!
And also we have a scarecrow competition, create a scarecrow, bring it to the Childrens Area Coordinator, Monique who will be in the ASB tent and then they will be judged and announced on the Whanau stage at 1pm

Just like the Farmers Market, it is good if you can bring cash and leave your car at home.

Please come on down and celebrate the 25th gathering of our Festival

For any queries please either email Angela at greylynnparkfestival@gmail.com or call me on 027 202 9609

Auckland Energy Consumer Trust election campaign

Unfortunately Pippa didn’t make it to be on the AECT. The Citizens and Ratepayers group were the winners. Well done to Pippa for giving it a go.
What a lot we have learned! Thanks to those who voted and helped. Here is Pippa’s update.
www.pippacoom.co.nz

Other Local Events and Groups

New Zealand Youth Delegation

The New Zealand Youth Delegation are 12 passionate young Kiwis, working to ensure our climate policies look after the planet and people for generations to come. We’re heading to the United Nations Climate Change Conference this December, in Copenhagen, Denmark. . .

Join NZYD for an evening of fun!
Charity auction.. Fun and celebrations.. Drinks & nibbles.. Live entertainment!..
All funds raised.. Helping us get to Copenhagen.
Thursday 19 November. 6pm.
Freemans Bay Community Hall, Auckland.

Please R.S.V.P. to nzyd2009@gmail.com

NZYD is a charities registered organisation, under the umbrella of 350 Aotearoa.
Suggested koha is $5 – $10 per person. For auction items we will gladly accept cash, cheque, and direct credit.

www.youthdelegation.org.nz

Fly My Pretties Competition
I work for  Ecostore and couldn’t resist sharing this with you as unless you are on the ecostore mailing list you wouldn’t know about the Fly My Pretties tickets competition. (If you say Who? this is not for you) Ecostore are sponsoring the Wellington based Fly My Pretties musicians in their upcoming “Encore” shows in Auckland (Dec 4th) and Wellington (Dec 5th). The Encore Show features work from their beautiful new album ‘A Story’. There are 2 tickets for each show to give away. If you want to enter the competition, please click to enter.

City Vision Special General Meeting
When: Wednesday, 11 November, 7.30pm
Where: Auckland Horticultural Society Hall, 990 Gt North Rd, Western Springs (opp Motion Rd)

City Vision (the Green Party, Labour, Alliance and like-minded community independents) is the campaigning organisation for the broad left in the local body elections in the (existing) Auckland City. For information on our principles and policy see cityvision.org.nz.
You are warmly invited to this Special General Meeting. There will be reports on current issues, including the all-important regional re-organisation, and our progress in developing an organisation to fight the supercity elections in October 2010.
To facilitate the development of a campaigning organisation for the new Auckland Council in 2010, the City Vision Steering Committee recommends we establish a Campaign Committee to structure ways of working with other like-minded political and community groups across the region. We hereby call for nominations for the City Vision Campaign Committee for 2010. If you are interested or for more information, please contact Gwen Shaw, Deputy Chair, on gwenshaw@xnet.co.nz, 378 2188.

Grey Lynn Community Centre
The GLCC are looking for a new board member. Our Grey Lynn community Centre is a beautiful local asset. We have a small management committee who meet once a month. If you are interested in this please contact me suzanne.kendrick@gmail.com We would particularly like a younger person. Young to us means somebody in their twenties! We would like to see the centre used more on Friday and Saturday nights so if somebody has a good idea for a regular event please get involved.
Will need to get in touch this week so you will be ready for AGM on Thursday 19th November. All welcome to the AGM.

Pt Chev School Fundraiser – 6th November
Pt Chev Primary would love to see you and your friends at this fun night out in support of our school.
This is the major fundraiser for the year and is to raise funds for a new junior playground.

You need to get a ticket which includes:
A free Indulge embossed wine glass and carrier.
Access to the food market for free sampling and drinking.
Entry to the auditorium to watch four professional culinary and wine demonstrations.
The opportunity to buy some of the best food and wine NZ has to offer at reasonable prices.
Live music.
A fun night out with others from our community.
The chance to win a series of food spot prizes

Please go to www.indulgefoodfestival.co.nz or email indulgeptchev@xtra.co.nz

Pt Chev Transition Town Meeting
Next meeting is Tuesday, November 9 – Resource Room, Pt Chevalier Primary School, Te Ra Rd.

Don’t forget to bring something along to swap or give for market place if you can – not to worry if you can’t!

PT. CHEV TREASURE HUNT
A fun, free event for the whole family and neighbourhood
Sunday, November 8th , 1 – 4 pm, All over Pt. Chevalier
1 pm start at Pt. Chevalier Library – Finish at Coyle Park

Bring your family, friends and lively spirits and travel around Pt. Chevalier collecting clues that piece together an understanding of the suburbs amazing history and natural beauty.
You can choose a leisurely walk to find clues and surprises, go hard out on your bicycle or scooter to cover the distance, or just sit back amongst the hustle and bustle. There will be something for everyone to participate in and enjoy!

Bicycles (singles and tandems) can be rented on the day from Adventure Cycles in Pt. Chevalier. For more info contact them directly or adventurecycles@woosh.co.nz

New Farmers Market – Royal Oak Market – opens 22 November(14 Erson Avenue, Royal Oak).  As a Transition Town group we support local initiatives. We are very pleased to see a new market has sprung up. We hope the locals will get behind this market and be able to walk or cycle there.. The market is being hosted by CCS Disability Action, a not for profit organisation that supports people with disabilities.  Over 40 stall holders will be selling a variety of artisan foods and products – french pastries, olive oil, cheese, honey, fresh fish, fruit and veges, artwork, jewellery, ceramics, kids clothing and gifts.

Do we have any Food Co-ops in Grey Lynn?
If anybody knows of any Grey Lynn food co-ops could they contact Joel Hildebrandtjoel@earthsong.org.nz at Earthsong, so we can share information and cooperate between cooperatives.

Calendar of Upcoming Local Events

November
6 – 10th Richmond Rd School – Art with Love Public Art Auction
Sun 8th Grey Lynn Farmers Market
Sun 8th- Pt Chevalier Treasure Hun
Tue 10th – Pt Chev Transition Town Meeting
Wed 11th Grey Lynn 2030 Monthly Meeting
Sat 28th – Grey Lynn Festival 10 – 6

December

Not at all local but would looks good…

16th December Climate Camp – http://www.climatecamp.org.nz/
19th Grey Lynn Farmers Market Twilight Market

Have a great weekend. Also am trying out some new email software www.mailchimp.com
Can you let me know if the formatting is OK at your end?Thanks

Suzanne Kendrick
Grey Lynn 2030 Steering Committee
www.greylynn2030.co.nz
www.Twitter.com/greylynn2030
www.facebook.com/GreyLynn2030

Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world. Indeed, it’s the only thing that ever has. – Margaret Mead