Crowd funding for the environment centre

The lovely building that houses the Riverton Environment Centre has come up for sale. We've been in there for 15 years, making us the longest continuously-running environment centre in New Zealand, and paying rent for all of that time. Now, we have the opportunity, wonderful opportunity, to buy it. Being a not-for-profit organization, working with volunteers with hearts of gold, we are going out to the public to ask for help, through a page on the Pledge Me site: We launched the page today and already have donations from a number of kind people but we've a way to go before we get the $75,000 we need to make the building our own. It's exciting for all of us, especially when a new pledge comes in, so if you want to make our little eyes shine and our hearts flitter-flutter, you know what to do and if you do, I thank you, very much!
Robert

Come and tell us what to do!

Today, the South Coast Environment Society Inc. is holding its 5-year strategic planning workshop at Riverton and you're invited to tell us what you'd like to see the Society do over the next 5 years. This is the third time we've held such an event and the first two have been enormously successful and fun to boot. We open the doors of Fleck's hall next door to the Environment Centre on Riverton's main street, at 11 am and will be there til 2:00 pm, harvesting ideas from any and everyone who comes along. We have found that these sessions do direct our activities to a significant extent and that we do achieve, by the end of the 5 years, what we set out at the beginning, so come along if you can, and tell us where you'd like us to go :-)

Lynda's blog

NZ Gardener's 'Editor at large', Lynda Hallinan has a blog and here it is.
This post talks about our Environment Centre and the wonderful apple peelers therein.