Kia ora tātou,

Thank you for taking the time to read our pānui! 🌿 On the menu:

🌻 Sustainable Trails: 74 Events & 34 Properties to explore!
🎉 Celebrating Te Wiki o Te Reo Māori
♻️ School Holidays Junction Tours (30 Sept. & 7 Oct.)
🔬 Green Loop x Massey University: Decoding Compost
🙋 We are hiring! Sustainable Trails Co-Manager
🌿 Big Community Success for the Taranaki Big Clean
🧑‍🌾 4th anniversary of the St Mary's Community Garden
💎 Sustainable Pounamu: 3 new Taranaki businesses doing good things
💚 Support us using our Online Store!
📆 Our Events Calendar to make sure you won’t miss any sustainable events

Our most-read pages this month:
1. Local Taranaki Markets
2. Food for Free
3. Community Event Calendar
4. Our Current Programmes
5. Our Team

Happy reading! 🌿

Ngā mihi,

The Sustainable Taranaki tīma ☀️

🌻 74 Events & 34 Properties to explore at the 2026 Sustainable Trails!

Visiting a Backyard on the Sustainable Trails? Why not make even more of your visit by adding a Host Talk to your day?

Alongside exploring the garden, you can hear the host take a deeper dive into a topic they’re particularly passionate about — sharing their knowledge, experiences and the things they’ve learned along the way. It’s a great way to get more from your visit and come away with practical ideas you can try at home.

Host Talks are either included in the Backyard entry fee or available for a small additional cost. 

You can also tour a Build, Farm or Lifestyle Block and discover why the owners have chosen to do things a little differently. Walk and talk around the property, hear about their approach and ask plenty of questions along the way.

You don’t need to be a builder, farmer or sustainability expert — just bring your curiosity!

🎟️ Registration for host talks for Backyards, Builds, Farms & Lifestyle Blocks is required via our website.

🎉 Celebrating Te Wiki o Te Reo Māori

Last week, for Te Wiki o Te Reo Māori, we shared some kupu (words) & whakataukī related to our current programmes and mahi (work)!

Find here 10 kupu, and here some whakataukī connected to what we do.

Kia Kaha Te Reo Māori! ☀️

♻️ School Holidays Junction Tours

Like to see what happens to your recycling after you leave your bin on the curbside on rubbish day?

We'd like to invite you to see the mahi that goes on by EnviroNZ from the moment they pick up your bin. See how what you do at home can help everyone out, and how your choices can affect our future.

Register your interest in one of our FREE school holiday tours in the September/October holidays using the links below:

• Wed. 30 September (10am or 1pm): register your interest here

• Wed. 7 October (10am or 1pm): register your interest here

🔬 Green Loop x Massey University: Combining Forces to Decode Compost

Green Loop & Massey’s trial will test whether bokashi fermentation, followed by the Johnson-Su style processing method, can turn local food waste into “biologically rich compost that is well-suited and scalable for agriculture and horticulture within the region”. Read more.

Could your business be the next to join Green Loop? 🌱
If your business is generating food waste, we can help you keep it out of landfill and turn it into a valuable resource, with a simple, practical local collection service.
👉 Join the growing Green Loop community and find out how your business can get involved: greenloop.org.nz

🌱 We are hiring a Co-Manager

Love talking to people, making connections and spotting a good opportunity?

Sustainable Trails is looking for a vibrant, confident and relationship-focused person to join our small team as a Co-Manager – Partnerships & Promotion.

This is a flexible, part-time role focused on growing our sponsorships and partnerships, finding creative promotional, event-based, and in-kind opportunities, supporting financial viability and helping Sustainable Trails continue to grow.

We’re looking for someone who:
☀️ Has experience with sponsorships, partnerships or commercial relationships
☀️ Is a natural networker, public speaker, and confident approaching businesses
☀️ Can work efficiently to organise and deliver events
☀️ Can spot an opportunity and make it happen
☀️ Is organised and comfortable with technology, budgets and spreadsheets
☀️ Can think creatively about marketing and media
☀️ Has an interest in the Sustainable Trails and the kaupapa

🕤 Around 10–15 hours per week (occasionally more)
📍 Flexible work from home in Taranaki or the Sustainable Taranaki office
🎟️ Perk of attending sustainability events for free!

📮 To apply, send us your CV and a short video telling us why you’d be a good fit (link in the full job description below).

🌿 Big Community Success for the Taranaki Big Clean

Tonnes of rubbish collected, hundreds of people involved and inspired (including local schools and organisations all around Taranaki): what a week and what an amazing community! 💚

Massive ngā mihi to the team at Sustainable Coastlines for leading the BIG Clean! 💙 Watch this space in 2027...! 👀

🧑‍🌾 4th anniversary of the
St Mary's Community Garden

From bare land in 2022 to a beautiful and thriving Community Garden only 4 years later! 😍🌱 Awesome mahi by the locals at the St Mary's Māra in Hāwera!

Working bees are on the 1st Friday & 3rd Sunday of the month, 1pm - 3pm. ALL WELC☀️ME!

Follow St Mary's Community Garden on Facebook for regular updates. 👀

💎 Sustainable Pounamu - Gems: 3 new Taranaki businesses doing good things

We’ve just added 3 more Taranaki businesses and organisations doing some good (and great!) things. 🌿
Each month, we will add new local businesses & organisations, and YES, you can submit yours for consideration (we would love to hear about the great things your businesses are doing!). 💬

Click below to find out who they are and to learn more. ⏬

🎙️ Support our mahi using our Online Store!

Seeds, bundle cards for the Sustainable Trails, honey and more!
Visit our updated online shop ⤵

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