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Seize the Season: Grow Food Aotea's Timely Workshops on Pre-Winter Planting

IsleStyle

Seize the Season: Winter Vegetable Gardening Workshops On the Way

With the chill of winter on the horizon Grow Food Aotea is launching a series of workshops aimed at helping the community plant their vegetable gardens in time for a hearty harvest. The sessions will equip islanders with the skills…

Final Call for Innovators: Aotea / Great Barrier Grants Deadline Approaches

Community News

Deadline Looms for Community Grants

The race is on for community groups and innovators on the island as the latest round of the Local Board’s Capital and Local Grants draws to a close in less than two weeks. With a deadline of March 8, 2024,…

Most will be familiar with this scene: a meeting that goes round and round on a topic – one that may not be important to the priorities of the company. People leave the meeting frustrated and unheard. And the whole experience is repeated the next time everyone meets.

Politics

How to Run an Actually Successful Hui

Aotea is a tapestry of vibrant threads from fiercely independent locals and mana whenua to tourists, communes, environmentalists to bach owners and everything in-between, each adding a unique hue to our community fabric. Authored by Katharina Naswall and Sanna Malinen,…

More than 100 tonnes of caulerpa washed up in this Great Barrier Island Bay after Cyclone Gabrielle. Photo / Sid Ware / Ministry for Primary Industries

Environment & Ecology

Great Barrier to Benefit from $5 Million Funding Against Caulerpa

In a move to protect the marine ecosystems of Great Barrier Island and the wider Hauraki Gulf, the government has announced a $5 million funding initiative aimed at combating the invasive seaweed, caulerpa. Exotic caulerpa poses a threat to biodiversity…

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Aotea Made, the therapeutic skincare range produced on Aotea, GBI has joined forces with Air New Zealand to bring island ingenuity and Mātauranga Māori to the world.

IsleStyle

Aotea cosmetics reach new heights with Air NZ deal

Aotea Made, the therapeutic skincare range produced on Aotea, GBI has joined forces with Air New Zealand to bring island ingenuity and Mātauranga Māori to the world. The…

Welcome to one of our most-read pages. It's a curious situation: Great Barrier Island, known for its friendly wave to every passing car, also bears the reputation of having 'rude' locals, according to some visitors.

Politics

People are ‘so rude’ on Great Barrier Island

It's a curious situation: Great Barrier Island, known for its friendly wave to every passing car, also bears the reputation of having…

The field at the local sports club is privately owned and depend on the Local Board to assist with funding. Photo / GreatBarrier.co.nz

Politics

‘Definite concern’ council cuts could cost Aotea jobs – Board Chair

There’s ’definite concerns’ about what cutbacks at debt-laden Auckland Council could do to Aotea’s economy and community services, at the local board,…