I’ve always wanted to know how to keep my tools sharp so when Transition Towns had a workshop for just this, I jumped at the opportunity! Held at Mara Tui community gardens in Kerikeri, we drank fresh Kawakawa tea and learned how to care for our tools. Alex, who also volunteers his German engineering skills at the monthly Kerikeri Repair Café, got us in the zone by explaining how different cutting tools work and to “be one with your tools”. This understanding and way of thinking will...

Being a big fan of waste reduction, I’d been meaning to go to the Kerikeri Repair Café for a long time. Becoming the new Whangaroa-Kerikeri-BOI Timebank Coordinator gave me the push to actually get there and meet Uta, a timebanker who runs it. Bissell upholstery cleaner now squirts water again I grabbed some blunt and somewhat rusty gardening tools and my upholstery cleaner that no-longer squirted water despite my best efforts to fix it and headed over. So nice to meet people who give...