Come along for a rewarding day of regeneration work at Papa ki Awataha, the source of Northcote’s treasured greenway. Together, we’ll enhance this important urban ecosystem by restoring the native bush surrounding the stream.
Make a day of it by exploring the nearby playgrounds and green spaces afterwards, or enjoy a bite at one of Northcote’s many local eateries. Sign up below—and bring your whānau and friends!
Native bush regeneration is a powerful way to make a positive impact on our environment. By getting your hands dirty at Papa ki Awataha, you’ll help restore the mauri of this special place. Your efforts will support native biodiversity, stabilise stream banks, create habitat, and contribute to long-term carbon capture. This is your chance to give back to te taiao and leave a living legacy in your community.
Ngakinga Sculpture Garden
On the day, you will also be able to meet Holli and get involved in Ngakinga. This is a public sculpture garden, a carefully cultivated space growing plants and flowers specifically selected for their natural dyeing properties to create textile arts. By combining a variety of native and introduced species, the garden's mission is honoring the Indigenous knowledge that forms the foundation of natural dyeing practices.
We are inviting you to join us in building a community around this land. To help us care for it softly and radically, with creativity and interconnectedness. Across four seasons. It will be a place to share personal stories and collective reflection with our feet in the soil and our faces in the flowers. A place to make art with natural dye plants through a lens of decolonisation and ecosystem regeneration, addressing the importance of sustainable practices and connection to the whenua, while the Northcote town center is under redevelopment. We acknowledge Mana Whenua as the kaitiaki of this land, and their tupuna past, present, and emerging.
Summer Natural Dye workshops will soon be announced on the notice board at Ngakinga.
