About ENM
Environment Network Manawatu is a network of over fifty member organisations that fosters and encourages environmental initiatives in the Manawatu, in areas ranging from sustainable living to wildlife conservation.
The environment faces real and pressing challenges. You can be part of the solution.
- See our diverse range of member groups.
- Check out our monthly newsletter of regional events.
- Watch a 24-minute documentary showcasing the work of our network and member groups.
- Listen to a 30-minute radio interview with ENM.
- Visit a map and list of member group projects.
- Apply for group membership.
- Volunteer for ENM
- Donate to ENM
Register for Plastic Pollution Solution Workshop Here
Featured Events
Menzshed Workshop
Every Tuesday and Wednesday, 9am-2pm
Rangitane Park, Awapuni
Maybe you have time on your hands since giving up work? You have lost touch with your workmates and miss the company you enjoyed while working. Perhaps you have sold the family home, leaving behind your workshop? Do you miss the satisfaction of working on projects. Meet like-minded people at the shed, learn new skills and share old – together Menzshed build great things and give back to the community.
Demonstration: Fridays for Future
Every Friday, 9:00am - 12 noon
The Square, Palmerston North City
In support of #fridaysforfuture Extinction Rebellion Manawatu will be holding a safe, peaceful and family friendly action at the council building in The Square. Meet up outside Bethanys Cafe in the council building, bring placards, chalk, song, climate info to share and talk about, theatre, costumes, ideas to work on with others. All welcome!
Plastic Bag Recycling Collective
Every Friday 10am - midday
Te Awahou Nieuwe Stroom - 22 Harbor Street, Foxton, 4814
This social / creative group develops skills for recycling plastic bags into reusable / sellable goods; condensing them into practical items and creative art pieces; keeping them out of landfills and waterways; reducing the impact plastic bags are having on the environment in our district till we can get them out of the system.
This is a free workshop, all welcome.
Please bring along a sharp pair of scissors. Also bring any unwanted plastic shopping bags, bread bags, fruit and vege bags.
Hosted by Greenheart Hub, a community hub aiming to minimize waste through creativity, educate in sustainable living practices, and promote the arts.
Ashhurst Community Garden Working Bee
Every Friday 10am - midday (weather dependant)
Ashhurst Community Library - Cnr Cambridge & Bamfield Streets, Ashhurst 4810
All welcome - just turn up, the more the merrier.
The first vegetable beds in Ashhurst's Community Garden were planted in 2014. Since then, volunteers have been working away, students on the permaculture course enjoy field trips there and other workshops have helped to create the cob seating. Regular working bees have seen fruit trees planted, bulbs, a rotation of vegetables and plentiful flowers and herbs. These are for the community to enjoy ....and they do! Visitor numbers are growing and the librarians receive many compliments and questions about the gorgeous garden outside the library windows. Plans include more fruit trees, more raised vegetable beds, a pond, water harvesting, seating and a chess table, compost bins, chicken tractors, a glass house, beehives, and more.
To learn more about how to get involved in the garden, contact the RECAP Coordinator on info@recap.org.nz.
Check out RECAP's Facebook page 
and Website.
What is RECAP?
The Society for the Resilience and Engagement of the Community of Ashhurst and Pohangina, Incorporated
RECAP is a volunteer-led charitable society for people from Ashhurst and the Pohangina Valley who want to:
- build a stronger sense of community,
- care for the living environment and the local ecology, and
- develop new skills and connections that can help make this region sustainable, resilient, and self-reliant.
While RECAP projects are local to Ashhurst and the valley, almost all activities are open to participants from the surrounding region. RECAP networks with similar organisations in nearby areas, including Transition Feilding, Sustainable Rangitikei, and Transition Otaki. As well as being a member of Environment Network Manawatu, they are aligned with the nation-wide organisation Permaculture in New Zealand.
Field Trip: Ashhurst Domain
Saturday 22 June
Forest & Bird Manawatū's trip this month explores the bush and wetlands at Ashhurst Domain, and the history of this site.
Lead by Jorinna Prinz. Depart Palmerston North at 9:45 am sharp. Meet in Palmerston North on Church St, opposite Centrepoint Theatre and the Salvation Army Shop, on the Railway land side. If you carpool, please share petrol costs with the driver.
Fitness level is easy to moderate. Please bring snacks, lunch, water, raincoat, stout footwear and walking poles if you usually use them. Bring some binoculars for bird watching. For more info and to register, please email Jorinna.
The Ashhurst Domain has a network of walking tracks made up of several loops over a flat terrace area with moderate to steep slopes leading to the Manawatū River, where you can discover lush natural surrounds echoing with rich birdsong in one of the region's last remnants of native bush. The upper circuits offer views over conservation wetlands, while others take you through native bush.
The wetland is a series of lagoon-like bodies, connected by a small stream to the Pohangina River. This was once actually the course of the river itself. The course of the river changed when an embankment was constructed alongside the railway between Palmerston North and Gisborne, sometime after 1872. Whether it is a “restored” wetland in the true sense of the word or not, it is today the habitat of rich birdlife and the rare mudfish. Its restoration has been the result of community group, local and regional government efforts over the years; undertaking fencing, pest control and riparian planting.
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