Hi - I am very interested in your site, and the food swap. I, and my friend don't live in pool st, but do live in Motueka, can we join you? often have seedlings and sometimes other plants spare, at the mo have red rosa lettuce seedlings I can spare a few. I save my own organic grown seed. Can have a few others, like spring onions also as I grow them all year round. My friend has several items at times spare in the grown food line. great idea you have....or maybe we can start one in our area as we are over by the rec centre.... regards, Liz Attree iljo@kol.co.nz
Sorry about this it arrived a while ago but I didn't get around to posting it you can contact Liz at the above email ads - Cheers Jan
Friday, February 20, 2009
20th February 2009
Hi All
I apologise for my lack of involvement but in typical Aries style I am on to the "next thing". Since Kate and I decided to move to the North Island in December my garden has been neglected as we do all those little!!!! renovation jobs that we started oh I don't know 5 years ago. Ya know the hallway without the doors painted and the window frames I vehemently were never going to paint, because they were rimu and its sacrilige!!!! Well those are white now and in fact the house has never looked so nice, I hope our new tennent Fern enjoys it. Fern is as the name suggests quite a gardener so maybe she will want to join in if anyone wants to pay a visit and tell her about the exchange.
My garden is a bit of an embarrassment I'm afraid, the first mistake being that this year I decided I didn't want to spend any money on it - just the price of the seedlings....well what can I say, didn't pay enough attention, didn't have good seed raising mix, not sure really - maybe it's one of those things about getting what you pay for. My conclusion is next time I'll be going back to Grant's Plants on Trewavas St for my seedlings. He certainly has green fingers and my garden produced bounty with his seedlings, without alot of gardening skill from me, must have tricked me into thinking I knew what I was doing, ah well we live and learn.
Other people of the street appear to be having wonderful gardens, Chris next door at No. 60, Nic at No. 18 and Zane at No. 5 have beautiful gardens, don't know if there is anything spare tho!!!
I changed the format of this page after a comment from Zane about not being able to post anything and I did initally set this up with the hope that people would swap food without my input either via the site or by dropping in. I hope you decide to continue cos it was great fun for me and I have meet some great people with alot of skills and it just nice knowing your neighbours, I'm a country girl from Northland so it makes me feel at home!!!!
So here's a "how to" instruction about how to contribute to the website by posting a message:
1. Underneath each post in small print is the time of the last posting with zero comments in green lettering.
2. Click on zero comments and write what you want to in the box provided.
3. Then click on name/URL
4. Write your name in the space provided
5. Click publish your comment
So that's it, not too complicated. I will also put a box on the left hand side of the page with the instructions repeated. I hope you will carry on - I'll check in now and then and say hi, as we will be in Caravan moving around I don't anticipate too much gardening going on tho!!!
Also we are having a little going away tea party on Sunday you are welcome to drop in from 1pm onwards 58 Poole St - maybe I will see you there.
Cheers Jan
My
Hi All
I apologise for my lack of involvement but in typical Aries style I am on to the "next thing". Since Kate and I decided to move to the North Island in December my garden has been neglected as we do all those little!!!! renovation jobs that we started oh I don't know 5 years ago. Ya know the hallway without the doors painted and the window frames I vehemently were never going to paint, because they were rimu and its sacrilige!!!! Well those are white now and in fact the house has never looked so nice, I hope our new tennent Fern enjoys it. Fern is as the name suggests quite a gardener so maybe she will want to join in if anyone wants to pay a visit and tell her about the exchange.
My garden is a bit of an embarrassment I'm afraid, the first mistake being that this year I decided I didn't want to spend any money on it - just the price of the seedlings....well what can I say, didn't pay enough attention, didn't have good seed raising mix, not sure really - maybe it's one of those things about getting what you pay for. My conclusion is next time I'll be going back to Grant's Plants on Trewavas St for my seedlings. He certainly has green fingers and my garden produced bounty with his seedlings, without alot of gardening skill from me, must have tricked me into thinking I knew what I was doing, ah well we live and learn.
Other people of the street appear to be having wonderful gardens, Chris next door at No. 60, Nic at No. 18 and Zane at No. 5 have beautiful gardens, don't know if there is anything spare tho!!!
I changed the format of this page after a comment from Zane about not being able to post anything and I did initally set this up with the hope that people would swap food without my input either via the site or by dropping in. I hope you decide to continue cos it was great fun for me and I have meet some great people with alot of skills and it just nice knowing your neighbours, I'm a country girl from Northland so it makes me feel at home!!!!
So here's a "how to" instruction about how to contribute to the website by posting a message:
1. Underneath each post in small print is the time of the last posting with zero comments in green lettering.
2. Click on zero comments and write what you want to in the box provided.
3. Then click on name/URL
4. Write your name in the space provided
5. Click publish your comment
So that's it, not too complicated. I will also put a box on the left hand side of the page with the instructions repeated. I hope you will carry on - I'll check in now and then and say hi, as we will be in Caravan moving around I don't anticipate too much gardening going on tho!!!
Also we are having a little going away tea party on Sunday you are welcome to drop in from 1pm onwards 58 Poole St - maybe I will see you there.
Cheers Jan
My
Wednesday, January 7, 2009
Hi gardeners, Jan is away at the moment, she'll be back on the 19th January. So I'm filling in for her, but I don't have all the info in my head like she does so am a bit of a poor substitute! Anyway, so far so good...
Ian came round last night wanting to swap his fine-looking beans with whoever has cucumbers at the moment. I couldn't remeber who the man is who had all the telegraph cucumbers so maybe someone can help me out there.
Also, I had this generous offering from the Soy Works, Gabrielle and Mike:
Hi Guys
We have finally had a chat together and think its a good idea to make some of our products available for swaps.
I currently have a dozen packets of vege balls available. Not sure how to price them as we sell wholesale of course which is alot cheaper than at the supermarket but if we meet half way they would be worth about $5.50 each.
Let me know your thoughts and have a great day
gabrielle
The Soy Works Ltd
PO Box 477Motueka 7143
Ph/fax 03 528 0001
info@soyworks.co.nz
http://www.soyworks.co.nz/
Excellent! Their soy products are marvellous and of a very high quality. So get swapping!
Cheers,
Kate
Ian came round last night wanting to swap his fine-looking beans with whoever has cucumbers at the moment. I couldn't remeber who the man is who had all the telegraph cucumbers so maybe someone can help me out there.
Also, I had this generous offering from the Soy Works, Gabrielle and Mike:
Hi Guys
We have finally had a chat together and think its a good idea to make some of our products available for swaps.
I currently have a dozen packets of vege balls available. Not sure how to price them as we sell wholesale of course which is alot cheaper than at the supermarket but if we meet half way they would be worth about $5.50 each.
Let me know your thoughts and have a great day
gabrielle
The Soy Works Ltd
PO Box 477Motueka 7143
Ph/fax 03 528 0001
info@soyworks.co.nz
http://www.soyworks.co.nz/
Excellent! Their soy products are marvellous and of a very high quality. So get swapping!
Cheers,
Kate
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