Wwoofing in Auckland - Ranui

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April 7th 2006

Published: April 7th 2006

Pat flew out on Wednesday April the 5th and I headed on to another fun-filled experience of wwoofing.Earthsong is a co-housing community located in the district of Ranui, within the city limits. I have been on two tours already. Pat and I came by on Monday before he left, to see the place and meet my two hosts, Lynette and Chris. I put in the link to the website because there is so much to explai... Read Full Entry

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A.L. Carney

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I am doing a few weeks of voluntary work at an environmental learning centre in Central America. For gardening and teaching some local women some felting and other textile crafts, and to update the centre's website. It is a very interesting place, and the programmes are quite impressive. There are 8 volunteers here I think, two of us are twenty nine, and the rest are in their early to mid 20s. The website does better justice to the huge undertaking this has been: http://www.learningcentercostarica.org/ This is from 4 years ago My 25 year old daughter Erin and I are leaving fo... full info

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You may now be able to discern

what exactly the material is? And what an abundant supply.

In case you couldn't make out

the detail of the hairpiece.

Is this an umbrella plant?

It's growing outside Lynette's window and I hadn't seen one in bloom before.

The first block to be built

Lynette and Chris live in this block. The bottom left is #1, Lynette's and Chris lives in #4 bottom right. I stayed at Buffy's place, on top of Chris. My bedroom window was the top right one. This view is from the yoga room of the Common House.

Scrubbed windows

stand out on Chris' bedroom bottom right.

Garden outside the door

Where we pick veggies for meals.

After the showers

Ceiling and room shape

Looking up from my bed on the second floor, the ceiling is made of wood and the room is not square.

Common Kitchen

The Common House has been in use for less than a year, and smells delighfully of the oil used for the wood.

Common Mailboxes

Chris' mailbox

The theme for the Junk Art competition was "mailboxes" one year.

Common Kitchen

There was a Shared Meal that night, and I helped Chrises team to prepare pumpkin (blue squash)and a few other things.

Kitchen

The supplies are ready on the counter for the day's preparation in the afternoon.

For washing dishes

The common room from many angles

It was a sunny morning full of promise and it was a pleasant space to be in.

Yoga room on top

After my run in the mornings I went up there to do some stretches and look out at the garden.

Lynette is on the Furniture Committee

which is looking at various furniture styles made from non-toxic materials for the common house.

The lighting was so good

I had to take the inside from every angle. Twice.

Looking down from the yoga room.

And IN the yoga room.

Of course it can be used for any number of things, I just call it that because that's where Buffy leads yoga class.

And now a lesson about compost:

The Bokashi Bucket composting system uses E.M. Technology (Effective Micro-organisms)in the treatment of Purtescent Waste

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