Community watch around Kaiapoi
An opportunity to experience sustainable growing, from seed to table.
Come and learn or share your expertise.
We are located on the school playing fields of Kaiapoi Borough School at the bottom of Hilton Street by the railway line. The garden is open on a Weds 10am - 12 pm in the summer and 11am - 1pm in the winter.
The garden has a close relationship with the school and helps in the running of the Garden to Table programme which the school joined earlier in 2015.
Kaiapoi District Historical Society Inc.
Kaiapoi Museum is administrated by the Kaiapoi District Historical Society Inc.
It is housed in the Ruataniwha Kaiapoi Civic Centre
PLEASE NOTE: We are closed on Public Holidays
Kaiapoi Museum was previously housed in the old Court House which was demolished after the Sept. earthquake 2010, and reopened in the Ruataniwha Civic Centre on the 5 Sept. 2015.
PLEASE NOTE: We are not open on Public Holidays
Kaiapoi, New Zealand
Need budgeting advice?
Our trained volunteer budget advisers are available by appointment to individuals & families in the Woodend, Kaiapoi, Brooklands and Belfast area.
Phone or drop in to our office, open:
- Mon, Tues, Wed, Fri from 10am to 12noon
- Thurs from 4pm to 6pm
About us
- budgeting skills, how to clear debt and budget for the future
- the benefits of appropriate banking systems, how to avoid contract traps & unmanageable future debt
Kaiapoi Budget Service offers free, confidential, unbiased advice to anyone in need of budgeting support, no matter their income, ethnicity, or personal circumstances.
The Kaiapoi Farmers Market is a not-for-profit community market established in 2005 that focusses on local producers and products. All profits are put back into the market and the wider community.
We believe in bringing fresh produce and value for money to our community. We support stalls that are bringing artistan products that a created or grown locally. We support education about organics, compositing and other related topics.
Our stallholders are all knowledgable and enjoy answering questions and meeting the community.
Becoming a stall holder is easy. The costs are minimal and we like to support newcomers to the market. If you are interested in having a stall please don't hesitate to contact us for advice.
Services:
ATMs are located at Kiwibank and inside New World on Charles Street; Toilets available at Morgan Williams Reserve;
Every Saturday
10 am - 2 pm (rain or shine!)
Charles Street (opp New World)
Support local fruit, vegetable and craft producers
Charles Street (opp New World)
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 Promotion Association is proud to be an initiator and community leader in the river town’s progression forward and redevelopment post-earthquake for the betterment of all the Kaiapoi community stakeholders.
The Kaiapoi Promotion Association strives to effectively build, strengthen and enhance the present and future community of Kaiapoi.
PO Box 130
Kaiapoi 7644