This show first broadcast on 31st March 2015. Click here to listen to the podcast: GREEN TEA April 2015 SoundCloud 

We visit the KCDC Sustainable Home & Garden Show and take a guided tour though the Paekakariki School exhibition at the show.

Students of Paekakariki School display a bug hotel they have made at the Sustainable Home & Garden Show.

Sustainable Home & Garden Show visitor’s at the Paekakariki School exhibition inspect the Archimedes Screw that students had built as part of their drought happy garden.

Members of the Paekakariki branch of the Kapiti Fresh Organic Co-op, Kirsty Anderson, Juanita Murray, and Vanessa Crowe, tell us about how the co-op started, how it’s run, and how you might join. For further enquiries, you can email them on [email protected]

Members of the Kapiti Fresh Organic Co-op during a pack in Paekakariki

Bins packed with fresh organic produce for members to collect

Roving reporters Russell and Dylan were at the anti-Trans Pacific Partnership Agreement (TPPA) protest march to Parliament in Wellington. This was part of a nationwide day of demonstrations that took place across 22 centers around the country. We hear about some of the concerns held by the demonstrators, and political speakers at this rally.

Midland Park in Wellington, the band plays signaling the huge crowd of protesters to begin their march towards Parliament during the nationwide Anti-TPPA demonstration day.

Avant Gardener Hannah Zwartz talks about April in the Paekakariki edible garden. It’s a great time of year to be gardening, it’s compost making weather! 

Playist this month includes:

Sex Pistols, ‘Lier’ from their 1977 debut album: Never Mind The Bollocks.

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