Recent and Upcoming Activities / Workshops

Love Food Hate Waste

Co-organized by Northcote Library and Chinese Conservation Education Trust

Sponsored by Auckland Council

Love Food Hate Waste

Bread crust & chocolate & banana rice puddings

Do not like to eat bread crust, just want to give them to the birds? Bought too many bananas, put them in the freeze,  when it comes out not looking good and want to throw them away ? Cooked too much rice, had done the fry rice already and don’t know what to do with the rest of the rice ?

Teach you how to do some easy to make, healthy and delicious puddings. Please come to Northcote Library on 21st April., 2021 at 10am. Let’s learn and taste the very yummy puddings.

Date : 21st April., 2021(Wednesday)

Time : 10am to 12noon

Place : Northcote library (Northcote Shopping Centre, junction of Lake Road and Kilham Avenue)

Admission : Free

No registration is needed, just come on the day.

Tāmaki Community Day 2021

Tāmaki Community Day 2021

Get To Know Who Is In your Area

Panmure is a place well known to most Chinese. It is near Mt. Wellington. If you want to go to Pakurang via Mt. Wellington. This is the place you will go through.

The Tāmaki Community Day will be an event which brings together local health, social, education, emergency services as well as businesses sectors to share their mahi with the Panmure community. An opportunity for the community of Panmure to engage with these local bodies, as well as community groups. This event will be in collaboration with Panmure Community Centre/Hall, Panmure Community Library and Panmure Business Association celebrating everything that IS Panmure.

CCET has a stall at the event. We have an easy, interesting game for everyone. Come and visit our stall and get a prize.

Date:     17th April 2021 (Saturday)

Event Time:        11am – 2pm

Venue: Panmure Library & Community Hall Carpark

Visit to the Waitakere Transfer Station

Visit to the Waitakere Transfer Station

Organized by Chinese Conservation Education Trust

Sponsored by Auckland Council

Many people do not know where they can dispose their inorganic waste and hazardous waste. Though you have to pay for the waste you want to dump, Waitakere Transfer Station used to serve only West Aucklanders. Now all Aucklanders can take their inorganic waste and hazardous waste there. The education tour about this transfer station normally is just for school groups. After a lot of time and effort, now we can take some Chinese for a visit.

Activity code : 210416

Date :  16^th April  (Friday)

Pick up time :

9:00am  Pakuranga Library.

9:15am Greenlane McDonald.

9:20am  Bus stop at Universal Drive outside Park n Save in Henderson.

**please be there 15 minutes before departure.

Returning at around 1:30pm 。

Charge：$7 per person (The bus ride is subsidized by Auckland Council.It is free.  $7 is the charge from Waitakere Transfer Station. Same price for adults and children).

What to bring : lunch, drink, layered clothing, sun glasses, hat or rainy gear according to the weather. Please wear comfortable walking shoes.

Registration : Please call 3030633 : leave your name, contact number, number of people joining, activity code & place you want to get onto our coach.

After you leave your name & contact in our phone :

1.Someone from CCET will call to confirm vacancy available.

2.Do not pay if you have not got our call to confirm there is vacancy.

3.If there’s vacancy, then please pay as shown below.

4.Go to ASB Bank to bank in your tour cost

a)Account name : CCET

b)Account number : 12-3188-0151516-00

c)Remember to request the bank to make sure your phone number to display on the recipient’s bank statement so that we can identify it’s your money.

d)Keep the receipt

5.Wait for our call to confirm receipt of your money & your seats.

6.On the day, please be at the departure point 15 minutes earlier.

7.All other queries, please call 3030633 & leave a message. Please allow 3 to 4 days for us to respond to your enquiry.

8.If you have called to register or paid in the money, you still cannot get our call after 5 days, please call 3030633 & leave a message again.

9.Cancellation must be made 7 days before departure and you must try your best to find a person to take your place, otherwise there is no guarantee of a full refund.

2021 One Night In Northcote—Chinese Day

2nd April,2021 Sewing Repair Cafés

2021.03.17 2 new environmental information & 3 event news

21^th March, 2021 Another Repair Cafe is Coming Again!!!

Another Repair Café is coming up again soon !!!

We can help to repair your small items of : electric appliances, furniture, clothing and general repair.

Our electricians can prepare your small electric appliances as long as your two hands can carry it to us.

Our sewing people can change the zip for you. Can cut short your trousers to fit you better. We can make your dress tighter to suit you.

Come, if you need help. Please give a small donation after your items been repaired !

Organizer: Chinese Conservation Education Trust

Sponsor：Auckland Council  

Date ：21^st March, 2021 ( Sunday）

Time：2:30pm to 5:30pm

**Please Note : Repair items will not be accepted after 5pm.

Venue：Northcote War Memorial Hall, 2 Rodney Road, Northcote.

21^th March, 2021 Another Repair Cafe is Coming Again!!!

We can help to repair your small items of : electric appliances, furniture, clothing and general repair.

Our electricians can prepare your small electric appliances as long as your two hands can carry it to us.

Our sewing people can change the zip for you. Can cut short your trousers to fit you better. We can make your dress tighter to suit you.

Come, it’s all FREE !

Organizer: Chinese Conservation Education Trust

Sponsor: Auckland Council

Date ：21^th March, 2021 ( Sunday）

Time：2:30pm to 5:30pm

**Please Note : Repair items will not be accepted after 5pm.

Venue: Northcote War Memorial Hall, 2 Rodney Road, Northcote.

2021.03.05 2 new environmental information & 2 event news

1. 2021 Howick Celebrating Multicultural Day

2021 Howick Celebrating Multicultural Day

Auckland is has over 100 nationalities. It is not easy to understand different nationality’s culture, music, dance and food. Howick Local Board is now creating a chance for us to see, eat and appreciate the different cultures in Howick area. It is free !

CCET has a stall there. Please come and visit our stall, play a game and get a prize !

Date and time : 20 /03 /2021 ( 11:00 ~ 17:00 )

Place : Barry Curtis Park ( Howick, Chapel Road ,next to the very big Temple- Fu Guan Shan)  

2. Free Mandarin Zoom composting workshop 

Organized by Chinese Conservation Education Trust 

Sponsored by Auckland Council

 Free Mandarin Zoom composting workshop

Chinese Conservation Education Trust will have a zoom Mandarin compositing workshop on 24^th March from 7:30pm to 9:30pm.

This Zoom composting workshop can help you to reduce waste and to change our trash to treasure. 

From the workshop, you can learn how to work a Garden compost bin, Worm Farm and Bokashi bin. All your Garden organic waste, kitchen waste will be changed to compost to enrich your garden soil !!

This online workshop is sponsored by Auckland Council. Participants are entitled to buy the discounted composting systems subsidized by Auckland Council.

**Since the composting systems are subsidized by Auckland council, only Auckland residents can enjoy the benefit. Purchases will be delivered to your door but only to Auckland address.

Activity code : 210324  

Date : 24th March (Wednesday)

Time : 7:30pm to 9:30pm.

Registration : Please text your name and mobile number (must leave mobile number for connection through text messages)to our mobile : 0220-384324. We will send you a reply when we get your text message.

** Those who want to join in, must have the zoom app downloaded. 

3. 如何做「保家舒」堆肥？ This environmental article only in chinese verison 

如何做「保家舒」堆肥？                                                                                         李衍玲

華人最喜歡講飲講食，廚房裏的廚餘也特別多，據統計，廚餘佔了家居垃圾的45%至50%，廚餘中的肉類如煲湯前去掉的雞皮，煲湯後大家都不願意吃的雞胸肉，還有魚頭、魚鱗、魚內臟，都不是花園堆肥桶可以處理的，把這些東西放進堆肥桶，會很臭，也會引來耗子、蟑螂，比付款清理更頭痛！

這裏為大家介紹一種既簡單、容易又乾淨，無臭味的處理廚餘方法，不單適合有花園，有果樹、菜田，花園堆肥桶的，也適合沒有在花園造堆肥，甚至沒有花園的人！

這種方法叫「保家舒」(Bokashi) 。Bokashi是日本文，意即「發酵過的有機物料」，是在1992年代由一位日本教授發明。原理很簡單，就是把廚房裏要丟棄的有機垃圾，用醃食物的方法把廚餘醃下來，造法也很簡單。

市面上出售15公升的「保家舒」堆肥桶就像一張飯桌前的櫈子大小，由有密封桶蓋，上下兩層桶重叠造成，上面的一層桶，底部有洞，以便放在桶內的廚餘廢物被擠壓時，擠出來的汁液可以流到下層桶內。連同這套「保家舒」堆肥桶而來的，還有一公斤含有「有效微生物」的「保家舒」堆肥粉 (Bokashi Zing) ，它就像製糯米酒時的酒餅，負責把有機的廚餘發酵。

其實「保家舒」堆肥桶的構造很簡單，有人問，可否用兩個普通膠桶或油漆桶重叠去造？答案是：可以，但必須要有「密封」的效果。

「保家舒」可以化腐朽為神奇

桶底的汁液(汁液多寡和顏色要視乎桶內放了什麼，若是放了大堆西瓜皮、生菜頭，汁液便會多) 和「保家舒」桶內已發酵的廚餘都是很好的有機肥料。筆者把「保家舒」推薦給一位愛種花的女仕，她用桶底汁液稀釋後澆花，每趟去探她，她都很開心的帶我看她的花，說花卉從來沒有開得那麼燦爛！已發酵的「保家舒」廚餘更神奇，一位用在菜田作肥料，水瓜長得比她還高，一位拿去營養果樹，無花果長得飯碗那麼大！

「保家舒」還有很多好處：

1.除液體、發臭、發霉的食物、大件的骨頭外, 差不多所有的廚餘都可以放入桶內去發酵，解決了處理廚餘的問題。

2.所佔空間不多。

3.不會有臭味，祇有醃菜味。

4.不會惹來任何昆蟲或老鼠。

5.把堆肥所需時間減少一半。

6.「保家舒」廚餘在田裏分解時更少氣味。

7.在埋下「保家舒」廚餘的地方吸引更多蚯蚓。

8.可以省卻不少買肥料費用，况且，這是有機的肥料，

9.使植物更健康，長得更好，我們也吃得更健康。

10.幫助減低垃圾堆填區壓力，保護環境，不會讓廚餘在垃圾堆填區發出臭氣(温室气体甲烷 )、臭水破壞環境。

「保家舒」造堆肥很容易：

1. 剛開始用桶，在放廚餘之前，在桶底先灑上三、四湯匙堆肥粉。

2.把廚餘放入「保家舒」桶。大件的廚餘(例如：西瓜皮)，應切細。

3.在廚餘上灑上堆肥粉。約一公斤的廚餘灑上一至兩大湯匙堆肥粉，廚餘中若有肉類，堆肥粉應加兩、三倍。(廚餘最好先用雪糕盒或酸奶盒存放，待盒滿才放一趟入堆肥桶，這樣便可知道廚餘的份量，也可減低開啟「保家舒」桶的次數，因桶內的「有效微生物」不喜歡有空氣)。

4.用器皿或雪糕盒盒底把桶內廚餘壓下，以壓出空氣。

5.蓋上桶蓋，一定要做到「密封」。

6.把桶放在太陽照不到，卻較暖和的地方，例如：放熱水器的櫃內、廚房桌面下面、車庫內、洗衣房內、廚房內。

7.每趟要放廚餘，便重覆以上2至6的步驟，直至整個桶載滿廚餘，最後，多灑點堆肥粉，上蓋。等14日，廚餘便醃製完成，可拿到花園去作肥料。

***為免收集中斷及發酵继续产生的廚餘，应该要有第二套桶.

什麼可以放進「保家舒」？

1.果皮、菜皮

2.不吃的飯餸

3.麫包、麫製品、奶酪、雞蛋、咖啡渣、茶包。

4.煮過、未煮過的肉類和魚

5.枯萎的花朵

什麼不可以放進「保家舒」？

1.果汁、牛奶、食油及任何液體

2.佔用太多空間的有機廢物如: 紙張、花園的廢物：草碎、樹枝樹葉, 等等。

3.大件骨頭、貝殼。

4.任何非有機物料如:保鮮膜、膠袋及

5.任何已發霉、發臭的食物。

如何用桶中液体肥料 ?

1.在花園：汁液含廚餘中的養份加上有效的微生物。用1份汁液對100份水的份量，直接澆在泥土上，作花園或家中植物的肥料。用1份汁液對1000份水的份量，可直接澆在植物的葉上。

2.在屋內：將濃縮汁液倒在廚房及澡房去水口，廁所或化糞系統，汁液能幫助控制臭味及防止藻類生長。

***汁液應在倒出後一兩天內用完。

如何用發酵過的固体肥料？

在花園中、菜園中：

1.挖一個20至25公分深的坑或洞，倒入已發酵的廚餘，混合一些泥土，再用其餘泥土蓋上。剛放下的廚餘是酸性的，但，在7至10天後便會被中和，種植應等到發酵廚餘被中和之後。。

2.土壤中的菌及蚯蚓會把發酵了的廚餘分解，約在3至4週，所有廚餘都被分解，你會見到不少蚯蚓。

3.不喜歡經常挖洞的朋友，可把發酵过的廚餘放入一個有蓋的無底桶，埋在泥中至桶的頸部,每趟放下廚餘都需混合一些泥土。

4.完全不喜歡挖洞的朋友，大可將發酵廚餘當作綠料，放入花園的大型堆肥桶中，與花園的樹葉樹枝放在一起分解，不過，這樣分解需時較長，通常需要幾個月。

5.用在果樹：挖一些25至30公分深的洞在樹枝伸展範圍的週邊，洞與洞間應有60公分距離，埋下廚餘，這些廚餘能提供很好的養份給果樹、為果樹成長供應有用的微生物。

***要確保植物的根部不與廚餘直接接觸，因廚餘可把根部燒傷，對幼嫩的植物尤其需加以小心。

沒有花園、菜園、果樹的朋友，怎樣處理發酵廚餘？

1.可送給有種樹，種菜的親朋。

2.送給區內的社區公園 (community garden)

從未做過「保家舒」的，可能會遇到一些問題, 並出現以下不良的現象，例如：

1.氣味：強烈的惡臭或霉爛的氣味顯示進程失敗了。

2.視覺：蛆蟲、黑色或藍綠色菌類出現，表示已產生污染，廚餘不是在發酵而是腐爛了 (出現白色棉花狀真菌是發酵過程的自然現像，沒有問題)。

為什麼發酵過程會失敗？

1.未加足夠堆肥粉。

2.用完後沒把桶蓋蓋好。

3.沒經常清理桶內汁液 (每隔兩，三日便應清空汁液一次)。

4.過長及直接暴露於陽光下及極端溫度下(太熱或太凍) 。

5.你放進了發霉或已經敗壞、發臭的廚餘。

***每趟用完堆肥桶應清洗乾淨，如桶內發酵廚餘曾經發霉，更要用沸水澈底清洗以殺死霉菌。

在那裏可以買到「保家舒」堆肥桶及堆肥粉？

「保家舒」堆肥桶及堆肥粉的售賣點頗多，Bunnings, Mitre 10 Mega, Kings Plant 

Barn許多分店都有出售。

4. Bokashi composting on TV

Bokashi composting on TV

Organic waste, kitchen waste if dump in landfill will create Greenhouse gas and lichate, will worsen global warming and pollute ground water. It is not right to dump organic waste into our red top landfill bin. Let’s change trash into treasure. Composting is the way. However, many people still worry about smell, flies, insects and rats that composting will bring. Bokashi composting can help to overcome the worries.

CCET’s founder Estella was interviewed on TV33 on 24^th Feb. She talked about why we have do composting,  Bokashi composting and the share waste project. Click on either of the links underneath. Have a look at her interview, then you will know how to do Bokashi composting. 

Youtube link : https://youtu.be/axV3z5syTTs

CCET website link : https://www.ccet.org.nz/home/videos/#

***CCET also have an article on “How to Bokashi”.  The article can help you do Bokashi step by step.

CCET also have zoom composting workshop for those who want to learn the 3 kinds of composting. Please note the news on CCET’s social media. 

5^th March Sewing Repair Café will be cancelled

Deal to COVID19 level 3 lockdown, the Sewing Repair Café at 33 Kimberley Road on 5^th March (Friday) will have be cancelled. Should you need help, please come on our April Sewing Repair Café.

1. One day tour to Goat Island Reserve, 20 more people can join. If you want to participate, please call us as soon as possible 

We are in Level 1 restriction. We can take 20 more people for this tour. Want to join in? Call us as soon as possible.

Learn about conservation through outings

Goat Island Reserve one day tour

• Goat Island Marine Discovery Centre is a very interesting and educational place. You can learn about the marine lives that we can hardly have chance to know, e.g. the starfish can take its stomach out on the food to digest the food, the octopus is so clever that it tried to use its feet to open a jar. When it couldn’t get the lid opened, it used its feet to take the jar home.
• Tawharanui Regional Park is a very special mainland Island. There is no pest animal inside the park. The park is a peninsular. How can the park rangers prevent pest animals like mice and rats to swim from the sea into the park ?
• You have been to Honey Centres, Have you learnt how complicate the honey bees’ community is? We love prospolis. We love Royal Jelly. What are they ?

We are going to visit the above 3 places on the 27^th February.

Activity code : 210227

Date: 27^th February,2021 (Saturday)

Departure time & place :

8:00am Pakuranga Plaza, Pakuranga library,  Reeves Road  near William Roberts Road

8:15am Greenlane McDonald

8:30am Northcote Road, Northcote. Poenamo Hotel, 31 Northcote Road, Hillcrest.

*please be there 15 minutes before departure.

Tour cost : $39/ adult, $29/child under 12(including coach fare, Marine Reserve information centre tour and admission.)

Return time: approx 6pm

What to bring : lunch, drink, wind breaker, sun glasses, hat or rainy gear.

*** We are not going to swim in the reserve. No swimming gears are needed.

Registration : call 3030633 & leave your name, contact number, number of people joining, activity code & place you want to get onto our coach.

​After you leave your name & contact in our phone :

1. Someone from CCET will call to confirm vacancy available.

2. Do not pay if you have not got our call to confirm there is vacancy.

3. If there’s vacancy, then please pay as shown below.

4. Go to ASB Bank to bank in your tour cost

a)     Account name : CCET

b)    Account number : 12-3188-0151516-00

c)     Remember to request the bank to make sure your phone number to display on the recipient’s bank statement so that we can identify it’s your money.

d)    Keep the receipt

5. Wait for our call to confirm receipt of your money & your seats.

6. On the day, please be at the departure point 15 minutes earlier.

7. If you have problem on the day of departure, call : 0274-229922

8. All other queries, please call 3030633 & leave a message. Please allow 3 to 4 days for us to respond to your enquiry.

9. If you have called to register or paid in the money, you still cannot get our call after 5 days, please call 3030633 & leave a message again.

10. Cancellation must be made 7 days before departure and you must try your best to find a person to take your place, otherwise there is no guarantee of a full refund.

2. Sewing Repair Café

CCET has increased one WeChat platform. If you want to join in our activities, please follow us in this platform as well.

Chinese Conservation Education Trust(CCET)plans to send out news and also Conservation information to our followers. For these purposes CCET has engaged one more WeChat platform. It is a “Service platform”. Only 4 messages can be sent out per month. That is approx. once a week. Each message can contain a number of items which may include news and/or conservation information. There will be more for everyone to learn and to see and to engage. This service platform is better. You will see a red dot which indicates a message has come. So, you won’t miss it. The current subscription WeChat platform will still be use, mainly for news that has timing restrictions.

If you want to know all our activity news, you have to follow us in this platform as well. Please scan the QR code and click “follow”.

Chinese New Year Festival and Market Fun Day

“Chinese Conservation Education Trust ” has a booth at ASB Show Ground. Please come to visit, “play games and get prizes”, and never fail.
Booth number: 407, next to MPI booth
Date: January 30, 2021
Time: 9:30 am to 4:00 pm
Location: Auckland ASB Show Ground opposite One Tree Hill Park, Greenlane West

Upcoming  Workshop

Learn how to make delicious pudding with leftover rice and bread from our experienced tutor, Estella Lee.

Location: Northcote Library

Time: 10am to 12pm, 17th Feb 2021

Upcoming Composting Workshop

Learn how to do composting and reduce waste at home from our experienced tutor.

Location: Auckland Taiwanese Presbyterian Church

Time: 10am to 12pm, 7th Dec 2020

Upcoming Sewing Repair Cafe

Held by Chinese Conservation Education Trust

Supported by Epsom Chinese Association

Sponsored by Albert Eden Local Board

Our friendly and enthusiastic team will repair your zips, tailor your pants or clothes to fit you.

Location: 33 Kimberly Rd, Kimberley Room, Epsom

Time: 9:30am to 12:30pm, 4th Dec 2020

Another Repair Cafe is Coming Again!!!

We can help to repair your small items of : electric appliances, furniture, clothing and general repair.

Our electricians can prepare your small electric appliances as long as your two hands can carry it to us.

Our sewing people can change the zip for you. Can cut short your trousers to fit you better. We can make your dress tighter to suit you.

Come, it’s all FREE !

Organizer: Chinese Conservation Education Trust

Sponsor：Albert Eden Local Board

Date ：29^th November, 2020 ( Sunday）Time：1:30pm to 4:30pm

**Please Note : Repair items will not be accepted after 4pm.

Venue：956 Great North Road, Western Spring Garden Community Hall