Mahuru / September 29, 2025
Seeds-to-Feeds Wild Spring Lunch: change of date!
Sunday, 19 October, 12 pm – 2.30 pm
We have postponed the lunch a couple of weeks for two reasons: the end of the school holidays might not be the best time for people to come, and more importantly, there is an event there is an event to mark two years of Palestinian persecution at Pukeahu War Memorial Park by Steadfast for Palestine, that many people would like to go to.
Apologies for the last minute change. If you have already bought a ticket you will be contacted separately. If you were planning to come we hope you can still make the new date, and if you couldn’t make this time we would love to see you!
So do consider coming and enjoying a delicious vegetarian meal (vegan and gluten free available too). The menu includes soup, bread and spreads, foraged salad, vegetable savouries, cakes and tea and coffee.
Tickets are $15 plus a small booking fee. The first $5 will go towards the wonderful work that the Seeds-to-Feeds team continues to do for us. The $10 plus any more you wish to donate on top of that will go towards Haewai Houghton Valley community projects.
Houghton Valley School Fair is coming
Saturday, 15th November 10 am – 2 pm
Come join the community for a tremendous day out at the HVS fair – great food, games, entertainment, bargains! Fun for the whole family. What can you do to help?
- Spring is here: having a declutter? – save your quality clothes, books and toys and drop them into school from beginning of November (sorry we are not able to store donations before then)
- Silent auction donations: if you, your workplace, or someone you know can contribute a voucher, experience, product or service, we’d love to hear from you. Email us at hvsfundraisers@gmail.com if you can help – ngā mihi!
- Green thumbs? Get some seedlings going in the windowsill to sell in our plant stall.
Contact Anna at hvsfair@gmail.com if you have any questions about the fair and see you in November!
Website upgrade
It was recommended that we change our website host to make technical changes easier. So we have been beavering away rebuilding the site and continuing the upgrade that we started (and then stopped) a couple of years ago. There is a new domain name as well: haewaihoughtonvalley.org. The old website will disappear after 17 October.
The website is still mostly the same, but is generally fresher looking, and the WordPress sections are now more responsive to screen size changes. We have also been upgrading the content and adding lots more. Not finished yet though!
Our website is mostly a record of Haewai Houghton Valley and what has been going on here and what still is going on. There will be still a few gaps by the time the official changeover happens, our history section won’t be complete for a while as we are aiming to create something special for the Haewai Houghton Valley Community Association Centenary Years (2025 – 2029).
For keeping up with the latest news however, this newsletter and our Facebook Group are good to get communications from.
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