A community food forest provides an abundance of food for residents and those that wish to visit to gather – fruits, vegetables, herbs and medicinal plants by way of a layered permaculture companion planting system.
Imagine wandering through a flourishing forest where almost every plant is edible and all plants serve a purpose.
The Waimakariri District Council is going to lease 1.5acres of land to the Kaiapoi Food Forest Trust to develop a food forest.
A food forest functions as a healthy closed-loop ecosystem, with each organism playing a role. Each element of the system supports the whole. The many relationships happening in an ecosystem are imitated in a food forest which:
• builds soil and accumulates nutrients
• self-fertilizes, self-mulches, self-regulates
• produces food, fiber, medicine, materials, fodder and more
• Sequesters Carbon, offsetting climate change
• provides habitat for all living organisms
• supports pollinators and beneficial insects
• protects and enhances biodiversity
We want volunteers...if you would like to help please give us a call... or visit during our volunteer days which is most Wednesdays from 4pm till around 6pm
The Kaiapoi Golf Club was founded in 1907 and is situated just 20 minutes north of Christchurch on the Canterbury golf trail. The 18 hole links course has well groomed undulating fairways and rolling greens with a computerized irrigation system within. This parkland course provides a fair test of golf for all players. Enjoy quality golf at Kaiapoi Golf Club with wonderful views and a clubhouse with full catering and bar services, ease of access and friendly country hospitality. We have a extensive practice area and coaching is available to members of all levels.
Kaiapoi 7630
A Toastmasters meeting is a learn-by-doing workshop in which participants hone their speaking and leadership skills in a no-pressure atmosphere.
There is no instructor in a Toastmasters meeting. Instead, members evaluate one another’s presentations. This feedback process is a key part of the program’s success.
Meeting participants also give impromptu talks on assigned topics, conduct meetings and develop skills related to timekeeping, grammar and parliamentary procedure.
Members learn communication skills by working in the Competent Communication manual, a series of 10 self-paced speaking assignments designed to give you the foundation in public speaking.
Kaiapoi Club Bistro
113 Raven Quay, Kaiapoi 7630
Kaiapoi Riverside Bowling Club.
We are based in Eyreton by Swananoa just North of Christchurch, in the South Island of New Zealand. Come and check out our great model flying facilities
The Kaiapoi Photographic Club was formed in 1989 and is affiliated to the Photographic Society of New Zealand.
7.30pm Monday evening usually twice a month
As a club we aim to promote awareness and appreciation of photography, offer encouragement to enable people to learn and explore the art of photography and to provide instruction and training in techniques that will lead to better photographs being taken and greater satisfaction for the photographer.
The club maintains a Flickr Group, members please join and share your photographs. However it would seem this has not been kept upto date
You can also find the club on Facebook.
76a Charles Street
Kaiapoi, 7630