The End of the Competition or is it?
We joined the Greenest Street Competition a little after the
others as we had been away on holiday in the UK visiting family.
Family is important to us and all of our children except one
lives away from us. We have only lived
in Kapiti for 3 years having moved from the Waikato.
The Competition has firstly helped us to meet others in the
street and to feel that we now belong to this community.
It has been hard for us to meet people since moving here so
the comaradrie that this competition has
supplied through shared meals, and get
togethers to learn new things has been a godsend to us.
The regular street meetings
have helped us to make friends in the street and we are finding that
some of them now stop in for a chat or to collect extra fruit and veggies we have.
Gardening has become more of a passion for us having met one
particular family in our street who are passionate gardeners. We also now try and listen to the councils
green gardener and other council spots that can be heard on Beach FM. The information has helped us to garden more
greenly and economically run our home. We now mulch our garden with the help of
the council grant for a street /community mulcher. We had fun learning how to
mulch and fun mulching our own tree branches.This has stopped trailer loads of
green waste going to landfill.
The highlight for me was the Sustainable Garden Show where
we were able to meet up with other
Greenest Street Competitors.
Seeing what they had thought up and what they had on display was very
informative. It has made us all give more thought to the environment we live
in, and how we can minimise waste . It has made us more aware of how we use
power and water and by the end of this year we hope to have our own rain water
reticulation system in place.
We will go forward with what we have learnt and we will have
on going connections with neighbours as we still have plans to improve our
green-carbon footprint.
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