Wai Not Go Green?

 MAKE Your Own Household Cleaning Products

 Learn how tomake cleaning products at home & save $$$thousands$$$

 Commercial cleaning productsare quite toxic.  Clean up your environment by using these naturalrecipes, without compromising on the cleaning power you need to keep your homeclean.

 For $25 youcan see common household cleaning products made and demonstrated.

 Get tips onwhere to source the ingredients and take home rec...

Do you want to know more about environment and how to limit your impact on it?

The National Sustainable Living Education Trust Course gets you informed on environmental issues and gives you practical tips and techniques on how to make your lifestyle more eco friendly.

The course will provide you with ideas and realistic solutions on a personal level, in your own circle of influence. And so focuses on what individual persons could do for the environment in their own backyard withou...

Have you heard of the Wairarapa Herb Society?

I certainly hadn't! Luckily, I came across a flyer at Health 2000 in Masterton advertising a great Herb Society workshop coming up Masterton. This "Living with Herbs" One Day Seminar includes 2 great keynote speakers and  a choice of 3 different workshops you can attend - making creams and lotions, tonics tictures &a...

This Sunday 3rd April Russel Norman is paddling the Mangatainoka as part of his Dirty Rivers campaign and the general public are invited to  come along and join in the adventure or just chat with him before the trip if you prefer.

Email Alina at alina.siegfried@parliament.govt.nz for more or call her on 04 801 5297

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Tamariki Nga Taonga o Wairarapa

(Our Children are the Treasures of Wairarapa)

Waitangi Day Origins Festival has two great events going on in 2011. This day celebrates the sign...

We have just found out about this fantastic online summit which brings together some of the brightest thinkers and innovators on investing, defining the bottom line, healthy economic models and the link between money and well-being.

There are loads of great speakers including Rob...

Wairarapa Moana

He pātaka kai, he pātaka korero

Stories about a lake and its people

The Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry are running a series of free workshops around the North Island about the impact of erosion on the economic and environmental sustainability of hill country. The Wairarapa workshop is being held on the 23rd of November. For more details, click here  or conta...

The recent Artists in Action event at Tinui was a great success. There was a lot of local support for the event from the Tinui community as well as a large no. of people turning up from the wider Wairarapa region and even Wellington. Sam had his pottery stall set up for the weekend and it was a great experience for us to be a part of the event - we'd like to say a big congratulations and thank-you to Barry and Trudy (and all their helpers) for all the hard work they put into it. The highlight...