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Opotiki Coast

Welcome to Transition Town Opotiki Coast

Our purpose is to help our community transition away from dependence on fossil fuels towards a more resilient life-style that is gentler on the Earth.

We are a Charitable Trust, with the current Trustees Kazel, Lynne and Matt.

Current Initiatives:

Upcoming Opotiki Coast Events

A page for all our Resources

Contact

Kazel Cass kazel@slingshot.co.nz 09 9744388. We have our own Google Group for Opotiki Coast discussions, for locals wanting to join the list of people interested in the Transition Town for Opotiki Coast.

We also have a forum on this web site, at http://www.transitiontowns.org.nz/forum/120

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International Permaculture Design Course (summer)

Submitted by Koanga Institute on 24 November 2009 - 1:50pm
10 Jan 2010 12:00
23 Jan 2010 12:00

10th – 23rd January 2010  (Starts Sunday 12 noon – finishes Friday 12 noon)
Koanga Institute, Torere, Eastern Bay of Plenty, NZ
Tutors: Bob Corker,  Kay Baxter, Cam Wilson
Fees:  $1400 inc gst  (includes food and accommodation )

This is an intensive twelve day course covering the curriculum recognized by the International Permaculture Institute.  It is focused on giving you a clear understanding about how you can apply ecological design principles to your : -  life, land use, business and community development.  

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Location / Venue: 
Torere, east cape
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Light Earth Building and Appropriate Technologies

Submitted by Koanga Institute on 24 November 2009 - 1:59pm
2 Apr 2010 12:00
5 Apr 2010 12:00

Light Earth Building and Appropriate Technologies

Friday 2nd – Monday 5th April 2010
12 noon Friday  -  12noon Monday
Location: Koanga Institute, Torere.
Tutors: Bob Corker,and Max van Ginkel   $460 (includes food and accomodation)

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Location / Venue: 
Torere, east cape
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Growing Preparing and Cooking Nutrient Dense Food

Submitted by Koanga Institute on 24 November 2009 - 1:56pm
30 Jan 2010 09:00
1 Feb 2010 12:00

Growing Preparing and Cooking Nutrient Dense Food

Saturday 30th January  to Monday 1st February 2010
9:00AM Saturday – 12 noon Monday.
Location: Koanga Institute, Torere.
Tutor: Kay Baxter, $330

An intensive live in weekend, which covers all the content  covered in the previous  two, one day workshops  on 1) Bio-intensive Gardening and Growing Nutrient Dense Food , Sat, 3rd October

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Location / Venue: 
Torere, east cape
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Koanga Institute Field Day

Submitted by Koanga Institute on 24 November 2009 - 1:54pm
7 Feb 2010 09:00

Koanga Institute Field Day
February Sunday 7th, 2010
Bookings are essential so we can tell you where to go.
9:00am - 11:00 am with Grant Paton (Environmental Fertilisers) in his research garden at Kerepehi and then
12:00am - 4:00pm with Jan and Rob Hammington (Seed Guardians for the Koanga Institute)
Koha to the Institute (we will look after our hosts)

This is an exciting first for us. We are holding field days in the Kerepehi and Hamilton areas.

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Koanga Institute Annual Hui and Open Day

Submitted by Koanga Institute on 24 November 2009 - 1:52pm
5 Dec 2009 10:00

Koanga Institute Annual Hui and Open Day
Saturday 5th  December 2009, Torere

Each year we open our food and seed gardens to the public and
share what we've achieved and learned over the past year in the
field of living simply... and what our goals are for the next...
into the future. It's a time for inspiration, reflection and
sharing......our first time in Torere....

We will be open from 10:00am  - late
We will provide a special dinner in celebration of the Solstice to come

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Location / Venue: 
Torere, east cape
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Kay Baxter's Organic Gardening Course

Submitted by Kazel on 16 July 2008 - 8:16pm

Kay Baxter of Koanga Gardens has a noticeboard on the window of the Flying Pig cafe on Church St.

Starting on the 23rd of July 2008 until the 17th of Dec she will be running an Organic Gardening Course at her gardens at Whitianga Bay, about a 35 min drive from Opotiki.  The course cost is $195, and it runs from 9am to 1pm every Wednesday.  This is such a worthwhile course to attend, it would be great to get some expressions of interest from Opotiki and Torere so we can combine travel.

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Money as Debt and Timebanking in Opotiki

Submitted by Kazel on 25 June 2009 - 10:45pm
19 Jul 2009 14:00

Screening Money as Debt

Kristy from Eastbay Timebank will speak and answer questions about timebanking

Location / Venue: 
Heritage Art Centre, King St, Opotiki
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7 Co-op principles

The 7 Co-op Principles, adopted by Ashland Food Co-op which were originally produced by the International Cooperative Alliance:

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Tool Library

Tool Library.

We have a venue and a collection of tools! Central Service Centre in King St has agreed to be a drop in point for all donations of hand-tools, and kick started the library with a Rotary Hoe! Mitre Ten has helped with a donation of some spades and forks, and trowels.  We are still accepting all contributions, so bring in what-ever spades, forks etc you have that you are not using and we will use them to help with the Garden Make-overs.

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