This show broadcast on 5th May 2015. Click here to listen to the podcast: GREEN TEA May 2015 SoundCloud 

I visit the 3rd Paekakariki Women’s Clothing Swap  and speak to organisers Carmen Slater and Nicky Walker about the eithics that motivate them to continue putting this event on.

Rachel Benefield with a bag full of ‘new’ garments and shoes at the 3rd Paekakariki Women’s Clothing Swap.

The ‘Gardening & Painting’ clothing table at the Paekakariki Women’s Clothing Swap. The event is put on in an effort to reduce wasteful consumption.

Junior reporter Milli Nixon interview’s Olive Stringfellow about the Paekakariki School Garden Club.

Paekakariki School has an expanding gardening program.

And I sit down to discuss the Living Wage Movement  with long time Paekakariki resident Lyndy McIntyre. As one of the people at the forefront of this new (to NZ) movement, I wanted to know what Lyndy’s hopes are for the future of wage earners in NZ.

Playist this month includes:

PJ Harvey, ‘Ballad of the Soldier’s Wife’ from the 1997 compilation: September Songs, the music of Kurt Weill.

Title theme: Mardi Gras BB , ‘Down Down Down’.