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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

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 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

Hi All - Isn't it amazing who finds us - thought you might be interested in this. Cheers Jan.

You look like you’re onto a good thing!
We’re always looking for good fresh meat: lamb, goat or beef for use in our rapidly becoming famous pies.
We’d be happy to swap it for Fish & Chips, pies or bags of rice or flour, that sort of thing.
We like the meat already cut.
The Tasman General Store
Andreah & Stef

Hi Jan
Things been real busy for us lately, thought i would check emails on saturday night to find out about the tea party.Then read your message about the date change, hope it all went well. Still dont have much to swap, but the garden is keeping us fed on a few different sorts of vegies.
Nick Sue and Lily.
Hi Nick - hey sorry we missed you on Saturday I hope you like the new site. Cheers Jan

New Look Blog for Poole St Food Exchange

Hi - I was talking to Zane last week and he mentioned that he couldn't leave a comment on the website and I realised that when we start producing food this might cause some difficulty - not to mention the fact that I if I got busy and couldn't check the site every day - peoples fresh produce might sit around and become stale etc. So Kate figured out how to create a new site for our Food Exchange that you can comment on. You can get to it on http://www.poolestreetexchange.blogspot.com/ if you would like to comment and/or post some news, click on 'comments' underneath my posting, a form will appear with a box for you to write in, scroll down to where it's says choose an identity and fill in your name where is says Name/URL. This will let people know who has posted the comment, then click on the orange box which says 'publish your comment'. Alternatively you can get to the site http://www.motuekanewsonline.co.nz/ and choose Food Exchange and you will get this page - just follow the above instructions and you should be fine.

We had a great day on Saturday at our 'tea party' and had some new people come along - it was great to meet Mick from 49 and Frank and Linda from No. 73.

I asked people to give me their email ads if they had one and a phone no. as well as a list of what they had planted - so here goes:

Zane and Nancy from No. 5 - Email Zane1@vodafone.net.nz - Silverbeet, Kuma Kuma, Spinach, Cherie Tomatoes and flowers.
Nick and Sue from No. 18 Ph. 528-6646 Cell 021-1340282 -
Email nickjmason80@gmail.com Brocolli, cauliflower, spuds and lettuce.
Matthew at No. 19 smat@orcon.net.nz - lemons
Eleanor and Glen No. 30A Ph. 528-0189 - organic/biodynamic advice and spare veges
Ruth and Anna No. 23 Ph. 528-7682 - have not heard what they are producing!
Mick No. 49 027 3266901/027-3217527 email rmmotueka@gmail.com - great cucumbers!
Kate and Jan No. 58 Ph. 528-4724 email katjan@clear.net.nz - potatoes, corn, peas, beans, carrots, lettuce, spinach, cucumbers, zucchinis, peppers, tomatoes, eggplant, yams, lemons, plums, strawberries, raspberries, boysenberries, grapes and eggs.
Rita and Andrew No. 59 Ph. 528 5389 teejays@xtra.co.nz - have not heard what they are producing!
Chris and Caz No. 60 cgray@doc.govt.nz - goat meat, lettuce, tomatoes, spinach, beets, peppers and broccolli.
Ange and Craig No. 65 Ph. 528 8997 angandcraig@slingshot.co.nz - brussel sprouts, red cabbage, brocolli, gherkins, beans, tomatoes, spinach and lettuce.
Gayle No. 71 Ph. 528 7890 colin.gayle@xtra.co.nz - don't know what she is producing yet!
Frank and Linda No. 73 - corn, lettuce, tomatoes and pumpkin
Ian and Heather No. 87 whitehen@gmail.com - don't know they are producing yet!

That's all the info I have at the moment - although some of this was gained a couple of months ago so you'll have to post alternative info to update. I guess we also have to remember that nobody will know what is excess until the time comes - but it dosen't hurt to ask.

I hope you all have a great Xmas if I don't see you before then - Cheers Jan

Benefits and possibilities of this project:

Get to know your neighbours by swapping and sharing your
produce through the scheme

Eggs, fruit and veges, fish, game...all this and more is grown, caught or produced on our street and could be used to trade and swap for things you need. At 58 Poole Street we have excess free range eggs and lemons. We also have a variety of seedlings - at this point only the lettuce has sprouted. So you can come and get some or have the excess seeds and create your own seedlings. We have peas, lemon cucumber, zucchini, eggplant, peppers, carrots, beans, parsley Spinach, coriander, pumpkin, pak choi, silverbeet and brandywine tomatoes.


LOCAL FOOD DIRECTORY:
Are you worried about your food miles? I recently went to meeting for transition town - Motueka. While I was there someone mentioned that with the rapid increase in oil prices and climate change we wouldn't be able to have the food we currently enjoy - so I thought I'd check out what we did produce locally.........If this interests you please feel free to contribute to the list and/or if you produce something locally and want me to list it or even post an ad on the page, I would be happy to do that.
Great food is produced right here in the Motueka district, or at least in New Zealand. I'm slowly going through the supermarkets to check out where our food is produced and though that I would note what I find in the list below - haven't got much past the wine and I haven't got all of those..........we produce a lot of that locally!!!
Some of these goods are expensive for a lot of us - however when possible and if theres not much difference in the price, buy local when you're out shopping:
The Soy Works - High quality tofu made right here in Motueka
Fresh fish, frozen veges, Steak and Lamb Roasts and ice cream from Talley's retail outlet - open Wed-Fri from 1pm until the fish is sold at Port Motueka
Fresh fruit & veges, organic @ Motueka Sunday Market
Toad Hall, High Street South - locally sourced produce & products
Anathoth Jams
Heapy Honey - Golden Bay
Ribena Blackcurrant Juice - blackcurrants grown in our region
Arcadia Organics & Coffee Shop, High Street - selected locally sourced products
Stoked NRG Blackcurrant Drink - Superb!
Weka Hill Organic Wines - made in Mariri - I only saw pear and apple
Sunset Valley - organic wines - made in Moutere - Chardonnay, Sav Blanc, Pinot Noir and Cab Sav/Shiraz
Lodestone - made in Moutere - Chardonnay, Reisling, Pinot Noir and Rose.
Kahurangi Estate - made in Moutere - Chardonnay, Sav Blanc, Reisling, Pinot Gris and Pinot Noir
Neudorf - made in Moutere - Chardonnay, Sav Blanc and Reisling
Bio Grain - made in Ashburton - Organic Rye, Wholemeal stoneground and White (not sure where the flour is sourced from)
Edmonds Products - made in Auckland - Baking Powder, Baking Soda etc.
Pams - made in Auckland - many many products (not sure where the food is sourced from)
Chelsea - made in Auckland - many many products (not sure where the food is sourced from)
Moutere Grove - made in Moutere - olive oils
Ceres Organics - made in Auckland - olive oil (not sure where the oil is sourced from)
Anchorage Wines - made in Riwaka - Chardonnay, Reisling, Sav Blanc, Vioguer and Pinto Noir
Garden of Eden - organically grown fresh and dried medicinal and culinary herbs
334 High St or phone Lynda on 528 5220.



Add your product to this list by emailing kate@motuekanewsonline.co.nz
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