COMMUNITY SUPPORTERS

These local businesses are giving back to our community by supporting our kaupapa. Thank you!

Mike Farmer and his team at Farmer Autovillage have generously supported our schools through a grant, which will be put towards a garden/environmental project in each of our 7 schools for 2022. We’re so fortunate to have local business like Farmer Autovillage supporting locals!

Thanks to the team at Placemakers Mount Maunganui, we get great deals on building materials for our garden beds.

Our local cafes –

George Cafe at Omanu Beach and Special Mention at Arataki Beach both help to keep our compost and worm farms topped up with used coffee grinds that the worms love!

Resene Mount Maunganui saves empty buckets for us to use in the gardens and keeps leftover paint for our kids to get creative with their garden projects.

Fresh Choice Pāpāmoa have made a generous donation towards cooking equipment for our member schools, enabling our young gardeners to take their produce the next step, creating delicious, healthy kai and learning new skills in the process. Thank you Fresh Choice Pāpāmoa!

Bunnings Warehouse Mt Maunganui supplied Arataki School with 14 new garden beds, AND their team came and helped us to put them together. They are also supporters of our programme through donations of plants and garden equipment. A big pakipaki to them from everyone at PiPS and our local kural!

Pāpāmoa Rotary Club are supporting PiPS through volunteer labour.

Trees & Stumps R Us kindly donated mulch and delivery to Omanu School for our Omanu School Community Garden

Tauranga Hardware and Plumbing generously donated their time, digger and skills to help remove the top layer of grass, soil and rubble for the new Omanu School Community Garden.

Rock and Rubble Tauranga generously collected the rubble that was created from setting up the garden area at Omanu School. They took away old soil, rocks and concrete and processed it to make sure there was as little waste as possible.

Paul Kenny Contracting Ltd supplies Mulch for Arataki School Grounds and Gardens.