Inglorious Vegetable Soup Disco - Free event Saturday 1st April on Waiheke
Love Food Hate Waste? Love Music and Dance?
Join our FREE event on Saturday 1st April to celebrate delicious & nutritious inglorious vegetables usually rejected by supermarkets and the general public. The world throws away hundreds of millions of tons of fruit & vegetables, mainly because of their appearance. Let’s share good food from our gardens regardless of their imperfections and reduce food waste!
Bring your three-legged carrots, undersized potatoes, warty pumpkins and holey greens from your gardens and community gardens along with the left-over veges from your fridges and join forces to chop and prepare veges that we’ll whip into a delicious soup for all to enjoy, while we laugh and dance to good music!
Featuring
4-5pm DJ TripleFFF (Dub, funk & classic rock)
5-6pm DJ Sinho (international collection)
6-8:30pm DJ Anirvan Deva (electronic dance, world & mantras)
8:30-11pm DJ Didge from the Deep House Brothers (Deep House)
LOCATION: The Old Blackpool School Hall, Nikau St, Blackpool, Waiheke, NZ
Food preparation 4-6pm (bring and prepare your veges in this window only as all must be ready to cook by 6pm),
Social catch up/dance 6-7:30 while chefs prepare soup,
Soup and bread shared meal at 7:30pm, Dance till 11pm!
Dj's playing continuously from 4pm - 11pm.
IMPORTANT: BYO Bowl & spoon for eating as they are not provided and chopping knife, chopping board and veges to contribute!
This is an alcohol free event for all ages, come along and join the fun!
The world throws away hundreds of millions of tons of fruit & vegetables,
mainly because of their appearance. Let’s celebrate the delicious & nutritious veges
from our gardens regardless of their imperfections and reduce food waste!
contact Rowena for more info: rowenabaines@gmail.com
Thanks to the Auckland Council for their support of this event.
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41.3% Yes
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Many New Zealand gardens aren’t seeing as many monarch butterflies fluttering around their swan plants and flower beds these days — the hungry Asian paper wasp has been taking its toll.
Thanks to people like Alan Baldick, who’s made it his mission to protect the monarch, his neighbours still get to enjoy these beautiful butterflies in their own backyards.
Thinking about planting something to invite more butterflies, bees, and birds into your garden?
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