Easter Clean-up 13th April 2019

It’s been a while since Friends of the Farm has had a community Easter Clean-up at Ambury Farm.  For the past five years, we’ve supported the Sustainable Coastlines’ ‘Love your Coast’ Campaign on the Manukau Harbour instead, with a large number of schools coming through the Farm to collect rubbish from the Ambury foreshore.  With ‘Love Your Coast’ coming to an end in our area, this year we returned to our roots with our traditional Easter Clean-up.

Friends of the Farm co-ordinated the clean-up on the Ambury foreshore, as well as supporting the Tararata Stream Team to host a clean-up there. Although it was a small turn-out, it was great to see our regular Easter clean-up supporters returning, as well as some new faces.  Some participants commented that there didn’t seem to be as much rubbish around as on previous clean-ups. However, you do have to have a keen eye to notice all those tiny pieces of plastic out there.

During the clean-up, we ran a competition to guess how many rabbit poos were in a jar, and lucky Lenna had the job of counting them! In total, there were 1409 rabbit poos.  The prize was the jar, and an Ambury Farm hat.  It was a beautiful afternoon, and participants’ efforts were rewarded with stacks of Easter eggs and a sausage sizzle.

The clean-up was a simple event for FOF to organise, and participants enjoyed the feeling of taking action to care for the environment in such a beautiful setting.  A small group meant were plenty of Easter eggs to go around!