About the kōrero sessions

• Two kōrero sessions were held, bringing together people from across Te Kunenga ki Pūrehuroa Massey Uni’s community who are interested in these two kaupapa. 
• Fiona’s main goal was to explore possible long-term aims for these projects, the ways that people are keen to get involved and what people’s capacity might be.
• The first session was advertised on Student Association and Campus Co-Lab social media, through the MAWSA Sustainability Committee Facebook page and via word of mouth. The second was organised as a number of students said they couldn’t make the session. Invites were sent directly, and again via the Sustainability Committee FB page.
• 21 people across the two sessions, mix of students, staff, MAWSA peoples and community members. Some came to both kōrero sessions

The outputs are below, organised by question. There are two screenshots per question- one for each kōrero session. Note that we asked people to think big. As a result, some ideas are more blue skies than others but it is wicked to have some ambitious goals in mind- they may become realistic sooner than we think!

Question 1. ​What could our group/community (of people interested in these kaupapa) look like? What are our values? What might we do together? Blue sky thinking :)

This was all about getting to understand what people would want from a community. This helps us to form the community, understand what the community will do together and will help with promoting the community to others.

Question 2. ​3. What do you want to gain from being involved in a composting and gardening community?

This was all about understanding what people personally want to get out of the community. Once it's off the ground, what kind of activities or events can we start organising.

Question 3. What can you give to the composting & gardening community?

This was all about understanding the knowledge, skills, and resources that we have. This helps us again with deciding what the community can do, and also gives us an idea of where we might need to seek more support.

This is a brief post in case you're interested about the composting and gardening mahi that was going on, on the Pukeahu/Wellington campus prior to any Campus Co-Lab work. * This post will be updated as we learn of more info in this space.

A few individual staff members and groups of staff have set up their own composting gigs around campus. These include the COCA Block 1 kitchen staff and the Fab Lab Composting system. 

COCA Block 1 Staff:

• There are large bins outside Block 1 which are fed from the COCA Block 1 Staff Kitchen.
• Finished compost is put it in buckets and staff take it home for their gardens twice a year.
• They keep worms in this compost bin. They don’t add coffee grinds. They add dry leaves – it can get a bit wet. They also add EM as well (effective micro organisms –  bokashi from common sense). They only have 2 bins and 3 would be better to have one active and two resting.

Fab Lab Compost - Resilience Project:

• The Resilience project proposes solutions and related services for minimizing waste within communities. In particular, it seeks to take steps towards a resilient community by engaging people at all levels of a community ecosystem, and develop the resources to support for them to work towards a common waste reduction goal. (Info taken from their writing on the side of the Fab Lab building)
• The Resilience Project: Worm Farm. Began in 2013 to work with the Kuratini Marae, collecting food waste on campus and the untreated wood dust from the CNC machines to combine in two kinds of composting units. After months of testing, they found the rotating compost bin to be the best option in the short term. (Info taken from their writing on the side of the Fab Lab building)
• There are now three compost bins at the Fab Lab building and the finished compost is fed into a raised bed vege garden nearby. This garden is maintained by the Massey Gardener, Sue Kino.