Local Facilitators
We have a friendly crew of community-minded, composting experts across the Auckland region who are ready to teach you new composting techniques, or help you perfect what you are already doing. Composting is easier than you might think, and we would love to help get you on your way.
No questions are too big or too small. The Compost Collective facilitators are here to show you what can be done with your food scraps and garden waste, so it ends up nourishing the land, rather than ending up in landfill.
MEET Our facilitators
Get in touch with a facilitator from your area if you want advice on composting.
They passionately care about our soil and want to help you make a positive difference in our fine city.
Phillippa Beagley (Pip)
I am passionate about growing food and therefore passionate about growing soil. My preferred method for organic waste recycling is cold composting, though I am really enjoying giving Bokashi a go! Completing the cycle is important to me, to take responsibility of the waste my family produces and recycle it within our property is a great goal.
Contact
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West Auckland, & Western Beaches
I am a passionate food grower, composter, worm farmer and artist. I like learning alongside others and working in community. Let’s meet the worms, let’s meet the microbes, let’s make compost!
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I am passionate about gardening and composting. I want to share my gardening and composting knowledge to the rest of the community so we can maintain good soil health and grow healthy vegetables. I am here to close the equation. Garden to table – table to garden!
We are a charitable organisation working to promote Sustainable Living , Waste Minimisation and Resource Recovery in and around Papakura. We’re excited to offer the knowledge and experience of the Compost Collective workshops to our community in conjunction with our Sustainable Living Workshops programme so more people can get on board with this eco-friendly way of dealing with food scraps.
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Montana has a background in environmental services and community engagement. She loves any opportunity to network and to bring together an action plan that educates those operating in the sustainability space.
Montana holds a Bachelor of Science, majoring in Environmental Studies, from Victoria University of Wellington. She is in her final year of completing a Masters in Sustainable Development Goals, with a specialisation in Climate Action.
Contact
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Ph. 09 372 2915
We are an organisation of passionate community change agents, intent on ‘taking care of the fonua and Moana: weaving in our cultural wisdom’. Our team of navigators value the journey of food and the importance of returning what has come from the whenua back to the whenua. All navigators are home and community composters and keen to share their love of kai.
If the land is well the people will thrive!
Contact
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Ph. 021 0841 3563 (Kat)
Communities
I prefer keeping Bokashi for growing fresh chillies. They boost my appetite and health as well. I am keen to share this useful information with our Korean community and nourish soil for the next generation. “Just do it” is my motto. I hope I can say “hello” to worms.
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Ph. 021 273 4588
Communities
The Chinese Conservation Education Trust (CCET) was founded to foster a love and understanding of New Zealand’s special places, plants and animals. We are a group of individuals dedicated to bringing conservation to the Chinese living in New Zealand.
The Trust works continuously and tirelessly to educate the New Zealand Chinese on conservation and environmental protection and to foster their contribution to a sustainable future for generations to come.
Contact
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Ph. 027 491 8151
Kia ora e te whānau! My name is Ali, and I’m the team lead for Gardens4Health; a programme run by the Diabetes Foundation Aotearoa to alleviate the burden of diabetes and cardiovascular disease through gardening and great kai. I whakapapa to Staffordshire in the UK, but moved to Tāmaki Makaurau when I was six with my dad, mum, and brother. I now live in Titirangi, where I spend my days playing music, cooking, eating, gardening, and patting cats.
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I am passionate about gardening and composting. I want to share my gardening and composting knowledge to the rest of the community so we can maintain good soil health and grow healthy vegetables. I am here to close the equation. Garden to table – table to garden!
