Mental Health Foundation seed kits

The Mental Health Foundation and The Warehouse want you to go potty and sow the seeds of good mental health during the month of June.

From 2 June The Warehouse will be selling miniature plant kits at checkouts nationwide in a fundraising partnership with the Mental Health Foundation. The kits, which come in four varieties – chilli, urban grass, sunflower & tomato – will be sold for $2 and are a fantastic way to support the Mental Health Foundation.
Gardening is something that everyone can do and is an activity that includes all five winning ways to wellbeing.
“Research tells us that if you actively incorporate the winning ways – connect, learn, give, be active and take notice – into your daily life, you will flourish,” Hugh Norriss, Acting Chief Executive of the Mental Health Foundation, says.
Gardens can take many forms, including pot plants in the office that are proven to relieve work stress, balcony gardens in apartments, school and community gardens, and full-on vegetable and flower gardens that hark back to the days of our parents or grandparents.
“We are grateful to The Warehouse for this opportunity to promote positive messages of wellbeing and we are equally pleased to be offering a product for sale that supports those messages,” Hugh Norriss says.
All proceeds raised from the Go Potty campaign will go towards helping the Mental Health Foundation provide free nationwide information, resources and support to all those who need it.

Rural Good Keen Girl Competition - National Fieldays

National Fieldays - Mystery Creek.


Due to the popularity of the ladies afternoon with the bachelors in 2009, the Rural Good Keen Girl Competition has emerged, making it one of the hottest additions at Fieldays. Eight rural single girls will compete on Friday the 18th of June for the title of the Rural Good Keen Girl and an array of superb prizes. The heats will test their rural proficiency and good keen girl character while contesting alongside the Rural Bachelors.

New Zealand National Agricultural Fieldays will be held 16 to 19 June, 2010 at Mystery Creek Events Centre, ten minutes South of Hamilton. Fieldays is proudly supported by strategic partners; The National Bank and the University of Waikato.

Farmers Market NZ Conference 6-8 June 2010

REGISTER FOR FMNZ CONFERENCE 6-7-8 JUNE 2010 With over 50 Farmers' Markets now operating around NZ, this conference will celebrate the success of your hard work, both regionally and nationally. Stallholders, market managers and market organisers, committees and new market organisers are invited to Hamilton to be inspired, to learn, to network and most of all share market experiences so that we can all benefit in the future. Hamilton will bring it on in June 2010 and we look forward to seeing you all there with a program that will be aimed at both established long running markets and new markets. Key note speakers and local food experiences from both the Hamilton and Cambridge Markets. For information please e-mail info@farmersmarkets.org.nz

Chainsaw safety week - offer

Chainsaw Safety week, a joint venture between STIHL and ACC starts on the 17th of May. The initiative is run through the STIHL Dealer Network and the key element is that you are able to buy a set of safety gear (chaps, hearing protection and eye protection) at a reduced price. Normally the gear sells for $230.00 but during the promotion it will be $145.00. You do not need to buy, or even own a STIHL chainsaw to take part, but the offer is only open to owners of domestic chainsaws.
To gain publicity for the event STIHL will get Jason Wynyard, Timbersports world champion, to make an attempt on breaking a chainsaw record.