Crafting with my son Tyler! up-cycling a few Jam jars into Nic Nac containers, old pallet wood into upcycled Dinosaur/animal Bookends and made a couple of LEGO heart necklaces. check out Pinterest for some real amazing ideas! - Marcial This afternoon Kaitiaki Sisters received a very unexpected envelop filled with loads of spectacular letters from 26 students from the Maunga team of Weymouth Primary School. From recently hosting a bees wax workshop on Monday just past, we are not only blessed to receive such kind words of affirmation, but these letters are what helps inspire us here at Kaitiaki Sisters to keep doing what we love doing for Papatuanuku & our Moana as Kaitiaki we need to strive to do our best and to continue to help educate others to help our environment together as one. So thank you very much for all of the lovely letters we will truly continue to grow in knowledge. #KeepNZClean#SaveOurEarth #Papatuanuku #LittleEcoWarriors
When I'm able to go into Weymouth Primary School as a parent and I'm able to educate & teach students how to make honey Bees wax wraps which are our alternative to cling wrap. Showing four classes how to make their own wrap, and giving a small demo too two other classes on how to make their own reusable T-Shirt bag apose to using single use plastic bags. Help us care for #Papatuanuku #KeepNZClean #WeAreKaitiaki
- KS Team Yesterday many community members were invited to sit in on a workshop on how to make our homes more warmer and healthier for our families. While also giving us the knowledge to become financially aware of how much electricity and water we consume therefore waste. Yesterday we were given tips on ways we can help reduce electricity usage and water wastage, from some pretty awesome people. Thanks to Live Lightly for the invitation it was nice to meet so many like minded beautiful people.
Here's a few more tips on ways to stay warm and healthy in your home during the winter: 1 Close all doors to trap heat 2 Open windows every morning, close before sun goes down (circulate stale air and dries drying windows) 3 short showers 4 unplug all appliances 5 bubble wrap windows 6 make draught snakes 7 use heatpump 8 use outdoor clothes line 9 use tennis balls in dryer 10 turn out unused lights and switches 11 purchase a washer for shower head (minimize water wastage) 12 Use a oil or fan heater rather than gas (gas heater produces harmful gas vapors in the air while also producing 1ltr of water per hour when in use.) If you have any tips you would like to share with us drop them in the comments below #LiveLightly ♻️🌎💚 - Marcial Hasn't been the best of weather lately but that never deters us from getting out there and interacting with our community members. Sharing tips and information about @Love Food Hate Waste New Zealand all thanks to @Auckland Council for funding our hui. We were able to get our mums involved in preparing a few homemade baby food recipes for their pepe. We all trialed the kai so we knew that the food tastes wonderful and we knew our bubbas would enjoy it too. We even prepared a couple recipes that had tofu which was surprisingly delicious, we surely had some very happy babies taking home a whole bunch of pottles to freeze in their freezer. 👶👶🏽🤰🏽🤰🏻🤱🏽🥝🍐🥑🍌🧀💚♻️🌎
- @Marcial & Renee When sharing with our communities tips and ideas of how Love Food Hate Waste - New Zealand can help households utilise their leftovers into a snack for the next day or how to get the best usage from their fruits and vegetables otherwise heading towards the local landfill. Kaitiaki Sisters have been privileged enough to facilitate a number of LFHW workshops supporting a number of events.
Todays video shows a small scale of what you can make with chickpeas such as in salads, hummus, toasts or add them to Falafel, soups, roasts and even add them to Taco. The benefits of Chickpeas are: They are a rich source of vitamins, minerals and fiber, chickpeas are high in protein and make an excellent replacement for meat in vegetarian dishes. Anyway if you want to check us out here's the link below also a big shout out to Clendon Pride Project Community House and Melissa for the support. - Marcial & The Team www.newshub.co.nz/home/new-zealand/2018/06/the-sisters-teaching-aucklanders-how-to-use-food-parcels.html Winter is most definitely rolling in so it's time we all start coming up with solutions on how best to keep warm through these cold months and save on electricity at the same time. Thanks to my team for making me a couple of kick ass "Draught Snakes" and "Heat packs" the really do the trick thanks Kaitiaki Sisters you guys rock.
A few tips to keeping warm & saving on electricity: 1) Heat your home keep the temperature between 18°c and 21°c if you have children or elderly 2) Dress warm before bed 3) Block up unused chimneys and stop draughts from windows and doors by using a "Draught Snake" (20% of heat is lost due to draught) 4) Open windows and curtains on a sunny day, close them before the sun goes down to trap the heat in your home. 5) Trim trees that may be preventing the sun from entering your home. (IF RENTING CONTACT LANDLORD) 6) Turn off lights if not in use 7) Hot water uses a lot of electricity so try not to take baths, have short showers, showers use 60% less hot water than baths and try cold washes for the washing machine. 8) Fix dripping taps which can cost up to $80 per year by purchasing a washer it only cost roughly $1 9) Use energy efficient light bulbs 10) By turning off the power to microwave, stereo, hot water jugs and TV's from the wall can save up to $75 per year 11) Use 2-3 old tennis balls while drying a load of washing in the dryer it can save around $1.06 per cycle 12) Make sure leftover food being stored in the fridge is cold before storage, keeps electricity down. If you have any hot tips please drop them in the comments section below, it's all about Live Lightly - Marcial |
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