Our own took out the national Green Ribbon Award for Small Business Leadership, and rightly so, as they have become an integral part of our Welly essence, providing so many ‘can do” services. In this interview Community Projects Manager for the trust, Christina Bellis, talks about how they are all feeling about their win, the massive impact they are having on our city and what makes their team so special.
Rose Mensah, a cocoa bean farmer from Ghana came to Wellington to kick off Fair Trade Fortnight and share her story about how being in a fair trade co-op benefit’s her community.
Hearing her story lead me to ask Wellington fair trade stalwarts, Christian from Trade Aid , Matt and Kate from and Rochelle from about the effects on their suppliers and their products from committing their businesses to being fair trade.
I also chat to Pravin Sawmy of about NZ’s astounding growth in Fair trade products is in just 9 years.
These guys need capes and perhaps should wear their undies over their tights, because they are aiming to raise funds to provide 50 000 meals this month, with the “Miss a Meal in May’ campaign. We talk to volunteers and recipients of our food rescuers about what is so good about not putting our food waste in the landfill and getting it to those that could really do with it.
Jeremy Taylor of Wellington’s longest running independent record store talks about Record Store Day at Slow Boat 2014, why records are still so loved and his best day ever!
Zach Widener from talks about their award winning coffee brew, what will be happening at , Wellington’s first coffee festival and how he got from growing up in Jamaica to brewing coffee in Brooklyn, Wellington.
Nestled in the heart of Lower Hutt, Epuni School’s is not only producing amazing food grown and eaten by the kids, but the kids are now exceeding in their national results.
This interview is with the visionary Julia Milne founder of the Common Unity Project about what it is like to be part of this school’s incredible solution for hungry children.
Ania Upstill, one of the instigators of the , spent her summer with a new wave of social entrepreneurs, at the hub, developing a plan to get Wellington eating locally grown food with the Cycle.