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Join us for our first Community Planting Day! Come along for a great day of planting in the extension area of our wonderful Te Puna Marama Moonspring. We are aiming to plant 1200 plants, and hope you can come along to join in the fun. Bring the whanau as this is a family friendly event. Saturday 6th June 9am - 11am, meeting 8:45am onsite. Location - onsite at the Moonspring Extension area, on the public path going from Resthaven Village Centre down to the river. Off Vogel Street. Details and RSVP via our website to confirm your place, link in our bio. If you have any queries please feel free to reach out via email - connect@arohacambridge.nz

Join us for our first Community Planting Day! Come along for a great day of planting in the extension area of our wonderful Te Puna Marama Moonspring. We are aiming to plant 1200 plants, and hope that you can come along to join in the fun. Bring the whanau as this is a family friendly event. Location - onsite at the Moonspring Extension area, on the public path going from Resthaven Village Centre down to the river. Off Vogel Street. Details and RSVP via our website to confirm your place, link in our bio. If you have any queries please feel free to reach out via email - connect@arohacambridge.nz

This healthy looking weta was spotted hanging out at the Aroha Cambridge shed. An encouraging indicator for local biodiversity 🌿

Whoop whoop! Now that is one massive number worth celebrating. 10,000 predators removed since 2017 when Predator Free Cambridge was formed. Aroha Cambridge is continuing AND expanding this great work started by a few good humans. Now we have 70+ good humans volunteering to restore our native habitats 👏👏👏

Our March results maybe late, but they certainly hit the mark on increasing the removal of pest predators from our local Cambridge community. Thank you to all of our volunteers who make these numbers happen! This year we will be hitting the 10,000 pests removed and recorded via Trap.nz which we can't wait to celebrate!

3000km for Aroha Cambridge! We made it Team! What an absolutely amazing adventure!

3000km for Aroha Cambridge, the Final Day. Well Team, we have made it to the last and final day, what an amazing adventure it has been to watch Di and Nicola venture down the country. The photos, the scenery, the updates, the stories, and then the support from everyone. Through financial donations, comments on posts, likes and sending messages to Di, the support has been one which many of us have been in awe of. We wish both Di and Nicola a safe and speedy final day, with aroha and support all the way to Bluff. A message from Di.... Tour Aotearoa really is a full frontal tour of all our motu has to offer. Slow travel by bike allows one to strike up great conversations, go to remote places and accept that in-between the beauty is functional stuff, like highways to get you there. Each day has dished up different challenges, scenery and cuisine! As I head into the last day of biking 3000km for Aroha Cambridge, and myself, I know it will take a looong time to fully digest the trip and the thousands of photos. I am moved most of all by the support from friends, family, sponsors and supporters. The interest and support has simply been amazing. I am not short of crazy ideas - and riding the length of the country with rats attached to my helmet while fund raising for Aroha Cambridge is just another of these wild ideas. The difference these funds will make to our charitable trust is HUGE. And you have helped. I am so grateful 🙏 But even more than that, I have loved to see people engaging with my posts online (written blary-eyed at the end of long days). You have come on this journey with me, making each pedal stroke so much easier and even more fun 😊🚴 Nga mihi nui, Di Final donations can be made through our website https://arohacambridge.nz/buy Link in our Bio We will be doing the final tally up over the weekend. Thank you all for your on going support through this journey.

3000km for Aroha Cambridge As Di and Nicola enter the last two days of cycling the country we thought it best to finish these days hearing directly from Di about their journey. Leaving this morning from Cromwell.... Life on the bike-packing road doesn’t allow for much downtime. There's early morning starts - as well oiled machines we can get the pedals turning one hour after slipping from the bed sheets but add another half hour if exiting a warm sleeping bag in the tent. We average about 6-7 hours moving time on the bike during the day and 2-3 hours of breaks depending on the weather and scenery. At the end of the day there are bikes and bodies to get cleaned and calories to think about. Its a balancing act to eat enough nutritious food on the go, without carrying too much, as food is heavy! We are always looking ahead to shop closing times! So, all that said after 27 days on the road we are tired! With a southerly headwind forecast through the Nevis Valley today it will make the last of our wilderness riding that much more difficult. So, after a rest day we will take on Duffers Saddle (the highest road in NZ at 1275m) on Day 29 with rested legs and bottoms. Ahhhhh. Not being slouchers we are still aiming for a Bluff late Friday afternoon. Di and Nicola 🚴🚴 Still time to get in those final Donations - Donate via our website - https://arohacambridge.nz/buy Link in our Bio Thank you to everyone for your ongoing support!! @ni.cola1569