Te Henga, one of Auckland’s wild and beautiful west coast beaches, is only 20 minutes drive from Earthsong. It’s a place for solitude, simplicity and the endless sound of the sea, for cloud-watching, swimming in a freshwater dune lake, body-surfing the cresting waves….walking through cool native bush to a waterfall and plunging into the deep pool at its base, […]
Autumn at last…
March 17, 2015 by Leave a Comment
We’re very lucky here that Cyclone Pam gave us 35ml of rain but no damage. At last the pond is full again, the ducks delighted, and the baby frogs which have been hiding in garden damp spots can return to their home. Spent summer beds are being weeded and composted, and green manure crops of lupin, mustard […]
A visit to Awhitu…
February 19, 2015 by Leave a Comment
Friday 13 February: we set off for our first visit to the Awhitu Peninsula since leaving earthtalk@awhitu in April last year. We stayed at a favourite holiday haven – Spyve’s Cottage, right on the beachfront at Orua Bay Camp Ground. Beautiful swims morning and night for two days! We visited Alison and Steve, the owners […]
Pride
February 19, 2015 by Leave a Comment
The Auckland Pride Festival – an annual celebration of gay, lesbian, transgender, bisexual and other people of alternative gender and/or sexuality – has grown to more than 80 events this year. We went to the opening of the Lady Love art exhibition at the lesbian Charlotte Museum on 1 February; great to catch up with old friends and meet new […]
Diverse Delights
January 18, 2015 by Leave a Comment
In this last week, we’ve enjoyed dance, food and drama from around the world. We went to the Okareka Dance Company’s Summer School final performance, exploring the theme Kiwi Ingenuity, by 15 talented secondary-school age students, coached in contemporary dance by Tane Mete and Taiaroa Royal. www.okareka.com On the way home, we stopped to eat […]
Summer at Earthsong
January 18, 2015 by Leave a Comment
We’ve enjoyed the last few summery weeks at Earthsong. Many families are away, no meetings or community meals have been scheduled. So we’ve had time to swim at Te Henga, to watch tennis and to be with friends. Steph and Annette took time off from their dairy farm at Whangarei Heads to stay a couple […]
Summer Solstice Greetings to you all.
December 19, 2014 by Leave a Comment
The longest day is here, with huge lemon-scented magnolia blossoms… We will celebrate Summer Solstice with family and friends, at Earthsong. Tanya will harvest a bed of garlic, and we’ll be feasting on our new discovery – delicious blueberry-cashew ‘raw food’ cheese cake – plus savoury snacks and colourful summer salads… On Christmas Day we hope […]
Coltan in the Congo
December 19, 2014 by Leave a Comment
Did you know that each time we buy a new smart phone or tablet we are condoning rapes, mutilations and murders in the Democratic Republic of Congo? Tanya and I certainly didn’t know about the coltan mining industry destroying familes and villages in the eastern Congo until we met Lema Shamamba, a refugee from the area, […]
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