Kaicycle Urban Farm and Composting

12/07/2025

Missed the Newtown veggie market yesterday? Don't worry - you can order veggies online, fresh from local growers (including Kaicycle) and pick them up on Rāpare / Thursday! Easy peasy and fresh as.

A Community-run food network with local pickups every week.

11/07/2025

Save Our Seedlings!! Please donate a few bucks if you have some to spare - our tunnelhouse got smashed and we're raising funds for a new one! 🌱

Our tunnelhouse is essential for growing seedlings - but ours blew down in the big storm! Help us buy a new one.

10/07/2025

Great opportunity to check out a cool movie about food waste, AND support a good cause - all just up the road at Newtown Community Centre - Te Whare Hapori o Ngā Puna Waiora.

JUST EAT IT! A film fundraiser for Whanganui Kai Hub.

03/07/2025

Acts of Tāwhirimatea weren't in our budget for 2025, so we'd love help from our community to buy a new tunnelhouse after ours got DESTROYED by the code red storm a few weeks ago! Please help us to Save Our Seedlings 🌱🌱🌱🌱

Our tunnelhouse is essential for growing seedlings - but ours blew down in the big storm! Help us buy a new one.

27/06/2025

Our friends at Crooked Vege are looking for awhi to recover from their second burglary 💔

25/06/2025

Kia ora whānau! We're on the lookout for donations of 2nd hand plastic buckets (10L and 20L) in the Pōneke/Wellington area 🪣

Many businesses use food-grade buckets to buy produce in bulk, but often can't reuse them due to food safety standards. We'd love to repurpose any 2nd hand buckets in our food scrap collection and composting service!

If you or anyone you know wants to divert some buckets from landfill, please put us in touch at [email protected] 🫰

11/06/2025

What a treat to be able to share some veg with our friends and neighbours at Newtown School for their Matariki soup 🧡

10/06/2025

Make yourself a cuppa tea, get cosy by the fire, and have a squizz at our latest pānui!

The season of Hōtoke is here and with it a chance to pause, take stock, rest, and plan for the coming seasons. We’re looking forward to taking a moment to do this with our community at our Matariki event on Sunday 22nd June. We’ll be recreating our ‘compost what you want to let go of’ activ...

06/05/2025

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📸*Picture this* 📸

It’s the first Saturday of the month, and the urban farm is buzzing with activity. People are chatting while weeding a bed of leafy greens and sunflowers, turning compost and enjoying freshly picked herbal tea. Tamariki are learning how to plant seedlings and picking baby carrots to take home.

This is the perspective from Kaicycle Urban Farm and Composting, just one of hundreds of small composting initiatives around Aotearoa that capture and compost food scraps, and use the nutrients locally to build soil and grow kai.

Read more about Kaicycle’s ethos and impact this International Compost Awareness Week: https://www.wasteminz.org.nz/international-composting-awareness-week/kaicycle

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14/02/2025

We’re hiring for a key role in our team!

We’re looking for someone with great communication skills, tech competence and a knack for streamlining processes to become our Administrative Manager. If you’re an organisational legend looking for a computer-based role to make your own, enjoy a varied and flexible work week, and want to be part of an awesome team delivering positive outcomes for our Pōneke community and ecosystem, we would love to hear from you!

To see the full job advertisement and how to apply, visit https://jobs.dogoodjobs.co.nz/job/17250/administrative-manager/

This is a 20 hour/week position, with flexible days and hours, and scope to increase to 25+ hours per week.

Applications close 5pm, Friday 7th March 2025 🌱

03/02/2025

We're so pleased to be able to share our little spot with Te Motu Kairangi for some raranga sessions. If you are interested in learning or practicing raranga, Te Motu Kairangi host regular sessions around Te Whanganui a Tara 💚

21/01/2025

Composting jobs are back on the menu for our Thursday volunteering sessions, 4-6pm! Join us if you’d like some satisfying cardio turning compost piles, and to help give our composting area a makeover!
Over the next few weeks, we’re refreshing the pest proofing on our compost boxes, installing some new boxes, and making some better lids for them.
You can sign up for a volunteering session at our Newtown urban farm and compost hub at the link in our bio.
Look forward to seeing you there!