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RECAP RECAP: The Society for the Resilience and Engagement of the Community of Ashhurst and Pohangina Inc.

The Crop Swap is on tomorrow 11am-1pm at the Ashhurst Library. The pop up op shop and village market are also on, making...
02/10/2026

The Crop Swap is on tomorrow 11am-1pm at the Ashhurst Library.

The pop up op shop and village market are also on, making it a great day out.

A lovely spring harvest. Romesco broccoli and cauliflower at Awahou school (which went home with the kids that did the m...
10/09/2026

A lovely spring harvest. Romesco broccoli and cauliflower at Awahou school (which went home with the kids that did the mahi today) and some cos lettuces, spring onion, celery and cavelo nero from our production garden for the sharing shelf.

Kia OraJust a quick message about our last two workshops/seminars for the year.Our Death Without Debt seminars are this ...
07/09/2026

Kia Ora

Just a quick message about our last two workshops/seminars for the year.

Our Death Without Debt seminars are this weekend (Saturday September 12th). This year’s content will be in two parts over the one day. If you attended a previous seminar and would like a refresher, please feel free to join us. To register, please head to recap.org.nz.

Seminar one: Business 10am-1pm. This details local options for burial, cremation, and natural burial, as well as the paperwork required. We also cover Advanced Care Plans, Wills, EPOAs, and probate.

Seminar two: Body 2pm-5pm. This focuses on the dying process, unexpected death, post-death priorities, body care, cooling the body, shrouding and coffins, as well as transport.

One seminar: $10 waged $5 unwaged. Both: $15 waged $7.50 unwaged
(These seminars are normally $40+ so thank you to our varied funders for enabling us to subsidise this)

DWD is a national organization campaigning and educating on funeral debt ‘dedicated to creating a future where the cost of dying doesn't add to the burden of grief.’

Morning and afternoon tea and hot drinks will be provided, but please BYO lunch if attending both seminars (we also have two wonderful local cafes you can visit).

And now up for registrations:

Seed Saving & Sowing

Learn more about the full life cycle of annual plants. How to identify seeds, when to harvest, how to process and store and how to sow them in the next season. Vital skills which can save you a ton of money in the garden.

Saturday October 17th 1pm-3pm
Ashhurst Library (back room) corner of Cambridge avenue and Bamfeild street, Ashhurst
$10 waged $5 unwaged/student
Register at recap.org.nz

It’s been an epic couple of months of packing up heritage and locally grown tomato seeds to share with you all. Pictured...
02/09/2026

It’s been an epic couple of months of packing up heritage and locally grown tomato seeds to share with you all. Pictured is another 100 which have just been done for this weekend’s Crop Swap.

We have given them away via our seed library (located within the Ashhurst library) via the Crop Swap, at Community Kai (our weekly rescued food distribution afternoon) at workshops, and through our local cafes.

We estimate that we’ve packed up around 400 packets with 6-20 seeds in each so far, so that means we’ve shared (or are about to share) somewhere between 3000-4000 tomato seeds.

We’ll be doing more to giveaway at the Ashhurst Village Market on September 19th and at the October Crop Swap (as well as keeping the seed library topped up).

The varieties:

Money maker
Brandywine
Blue indigo
Black krim
Long keeper
Lucky dip/mystery mix (aka - Chris forgot to label last year’s seeds again)
Alma
Dargaville red and yellow
Bumble bee
Large heritage
Gardener’s delight
Galinas
Ildi
Black from Tula

(Orange tomatoes c/o Heritage Food Crops Research Trust in Whanganui)
Blazing Beauty
Aunt Gertie’s Gold
Mini orange
Golden Grape
Amish Star
Moonglow
Golden Bell
Glimpse
Chucks Golden
Blazing Beauty
Tangella
Olga’s round golden chicken egg
Spirited
Bob Logan
Carol
Mango
Wally’s Spanish
B’mato

A harvest of fresh winter vegetables and herbs at Awahou School today. And a couple of new additions to what is turning ...
20/08/2026

A harvest of fresh winter vegetables and herbs at Awahou School today. And a couple of new additions to what is turning into a lovely little sensory garden full of plants that smell nice and taste interesting (although the Horopito might be only for the brave kids to try!) A big ngā mihi to Greg at Manawatū Contracting and Drainage for the compost donation for today.

Mōrena.This Saturday (August 22nd 1-4pm) RECAP are presenting an Emergency Preparedness seminar led by Palmerston North ...
18/08/2026

Mōrena.

This Saturday (August 22nd 1-4pm) RECAP are presenting an Emergency Preparedness seminar led by Palmerston North City Council and Manawatū District Council Emergency Management Officers.

With adverse weather events increasing year on year, we really encourage you to make time for this. It will be tailored to the most likely emergency scenarios for our specific area (Ashhurst and Pohangina) covering what to do to prepare and what to do in an emergency event for you and your whānau.

We only do these every few years, and a lot can change between seminars. It's likely it won't take the full three hours, but I have left time for people's questions.

This is free, with afternoon tea provided. Come for the biscuits, stay for the intel. Registrations can be made at recap.org.nz.

Blessed by yet another heritage seed donation! These were dropped at the Ashhurst library for us to distribute. The next...
12/08/2026

Blessed by yet another heritage seed donation! These were dropped at the Ashhurst library for us to distribute. The next RECAP Crop Swap is really going to be worth attending…

09/08/2026

Ngā mihi nui to the incredible Heritage Food Crops Research Trust in Whanganui for the jaw dropping amount of heritage tomato seeds to share via our seed library and crop swap. Our seed library is located within the Ashhurst Library and our Crop Swap is on 11-1 on the first Saturday of the month also at the Ashhurst library. We’ll be getting onto packing these up to distribute asap as it’s nearly time to sow these beauties.

Mōrena.We have our Chooks! workshop this weekend. A beginner-intermediate level guide to keeping backyard chickens in a ...
09/08/2026

Mōrena.

We have our Chooks! workshop this weekend. A beginner-intermediate level guide to keeping backyard chickens in a suburban environment. Presented by the eminently knowledgeable Phil Stevens.

Saturday August 15th 1:30-3:30 at the Village Valley Centre in Ashhurst.

$10 waged or $5 unwaged/student.

Registrations still open at recap.org.nz

Death Without Debt Seminars 2026.Death Without Debt is a national organization campaigning and educating on funeral debt...
27/07/2026

Death Without Debt Seminars 2026.

Death Without Debt is a national organization campaigning and educating on funeral debt ‘dedicated to creating a future where the cost of dying doesn't add to the burden of grief.’

This will be our third time presenting this material, as in both previous years these seminars have been full. This year’s content will be in two separate seminars over one day: Saturday September 12th at the VVC. To register, please head to recap.org.nz.

Seminar one: Business 10am-1pm
Seminar two: Body 2pm-5pm
One seminar: $10 waged $5 unwaged
Both: $15 waged $7.50 unwaged

Business & Body:

Business: Death can be a stressful time, when the business of life is put on hold in order to hold space for grief and the dying process. Death can also be stressful because it is expensive, with the average Kiwi funeral topping out at $13,000. DIY knowledge can cut costs. However, the more prepared you can be with the business end of death—processes and paperwork—the more focused you can be on what is most important, honouring this final stage of life by being present. In this first half of the workshop, details local options for burial, cremation, and natural burial, as well as the paperwork required. We also cover Advanced Care Plans, Wills, EPOAs, and probate.

Body: Communities have largely lost the skills and knowledge needed to care for a loved one who is dying, or who has died. Along with this, we have lost ways to talk about death, which impacts the way we grieve. When we don’t know what to expect or how to prepare for death, something precious is lost. This intimate support is a gift--not only for the person who is dying, but for the loved one left behind. This second half of the workshop focuses on the dying process, unexpected death, post-death priorities, body care, cooling the body, shrouding and coffins, as well as transport.

Morning and afternoon tea and hot drinks will be provided, but please BYO lunch if attending both seminars (we also have two wonderful local cafes you can visit).

Please note that these seminars are normally $40+. Thank you to our varied funders who have made it possible for us to subsidise this for our wider community.

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