Kaicycle Urban Farm and Composting

03/09/2026

No volunteer session today because of the wind warning! Don't get blown away e hoa mā!

03/09/2026

Turn your food scraps into fresh kai! ♻️

Subscribe and drop off your household’s food waste weekly to one of our wheelie bins located around Wellington / Pōneke.

1. Thorndon Tennis Club Thorndon Tennis and Squash Club
2. Aro Valley Community Centre Aro Valley Community Centre & Council
3. Sustainability Trust Sustainability Trust
4. Kaicycle Urban Farm Newtown
5. Berhampore Community Orchard Island Bay/Berhampore Orchard

Sign up on our website www.kaicycle.org.nz/for-residents and receive the padlock code to access the wheelie bins. We pay our composters the Living Wage to empty the bins every week and transport them by e-van to our farm in Newtown for composting. After 6 months we use the compost to grow fresh food at our farm which we donate to people experiencing food insecurity via Newtown Community Centre - Te Whare Hapori o ngā Puna Waiora and Compassion Soup Kitchen

Monthly payment: $22.50 ~ $5.20/week
6 monthly payment: $130 ~ $5/week
Annual payment: $250 ~ $4.80/week

As a subscriber, you get 2 bags of free compost a year and 50% off our compost products. 🪱

27/08/2026

Kaicycle community! Can you help this researcher with their studies to investigate food systems in Pōneke? Follow the QR code or go to this link: https://vuw.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_dng4lh3qLeG9g0e

27/08/2026

Do you want to grow plants, for FREE? Many plants can be grown from cuttings of other plants! Come and learn the skills you need to do this plant magic. ✨🧙‍♀️🌱🌳

More deets here on 3rd September workshop here: Growing from Cuttings Workshop

25/08/2026

Our farm manager Rose is speaking at this event āpōpō - let's rethink the way we live together!

What if creating a better future starts with rethinking the way we live today?

25/08/2026

We recently asked some brainy friends of ours to help us describe the mahi that we do at Kaicycle in the context of systems change and change theory. So much of what we do at Kaicycle comes down to identifying what needs to be done and getting on with it, so it was really interesting to hear how our mahi fits in to the broader academic domain of change theory.

Check out the blog on our website to read more! https://kaicycle.org.nz/blog/3rg540zvrfbr6ijr0a8yjwkywrlx4i

23/08/2026

The lino covering our bench at the farm was cracked, dirty and no longer fit-for-purpose! We reached out to Lyall Bay Bunnings Warehouse New Zealand, who were able to help us with replacing it for free. As a small non-profit, this would be out of our budget, so we really appreciate businesses that help us out. Ngā mihi nui to Arliyah and the whole team!

Do you know a business that might want to sponsor Kaicycle's essential work feeding the community and keeping food scraps outta landfill? Get in touch!

20/08/2026

Our team go out on e-bikes and pick up food scraps every week, rescuing it from landfill to make beautiful compost. Most of those food scraps are truly ready for compost, but occasionally we see kai that's still good to be eaten - so we're trialling a food rescue operation with three of our customers (shout out to Frank’s Coffee Newtown, Te Whaea Dance, and Utilities Disputes!) to reduce the amount of edible food being thrown into compost. Read more about it in our recent blog post: www.kaicycle.org.nz/blog/food-rescue-pilot

20/08/2026

Our Community Farm Manager Rose is speaking on this panel tonight on rethinking the way we live - come and join!

What if creating a better future starts with rethinking the way we live today?

19/08/2026

We loved celebrating Matariki with many of you back in July - thank you for marking the new year with us. We held a ceremony of composting the things we wanted to leave behind by writing them on rangiora leaves and tossing them into a steaming hot pile of compost which was very cathartic. We also got to eat a delicious soup prepared almost entirely with vegetables from our māra by the very talented El from Seeds to Feeds.

We were also very lucky to have Irihāpeti with us sharing her incredible knack for teaching raranga - lots of beautiful harakeke flowers magically sprung up in our garden beds. A huge mihi to both El and Iri and everyone else who helped out on the day. Also a shout out to the amazing array of bread and the bread bakers, it was the perfect compliment to the soup. We came away feeling nourished in our tinana and wairua, and so grateful for the wonderful community we have around us. Mānawatia a Matariki!