Aug 30, 2025 | Active Richmond, Educate Richmond, Healthy Richmond, Heritage Richmond, RR&BA
Petrie Park Planting Day 2025 5 years of work culminated in yesterday’s Petrie Park planting session! Once an abandoned area (the site of a former bowling club that was demolished post-quake) now has beautiful future ahead of itself. So many volunteers, members...
Dec 18, 2023 | Active Richmond, Educate Richmond, Healthy Richmond, Heritage Richmond, RR&BA
Petrie Park Update December 2023 By Hayley Guglietta The Petrie Park bowling club remediation is well and truly underway. We have completed the first round of soil testing which has indicated higher than normal levels of arsenic, especially around where the old...
Nov 23, 2023 | Active Richmond, Educate Richmond, Healthy Richmond, Heritage Richmond, RR&BA
Petrie Park BBQ & Planting Event What a fabulous community effort at our Petrie Park planting bbq on Tuesday! Everyone helped chip in by digging into the earth and planting transitional plants, learning about the history of the park (including its former life...
Oct 31, 2022 | Active Richmond, Educate Richmond, Healthy Richmond, RR&BA
Planting for the Future Avon-Otakaro Network, Food Resilience Network and We are Richmond supported a high-energy, meaningful tree-planting event October 19th in Richmond. Over 360 Pareawa Banks Avenue students had a go at planting over 700 trees at the swale behind...
Sep 27, 2022 | Active Richmond, Healthy Richmond, RR&BA
Rainwater Garden Planting Session on Stanmore Road Last week, We are Richmond held a rainwater planting event. It complements the mural completed earlier this year, by Nick Lowry, a talented local Christchurch artist, on the side of Graphic Addiction, 330 Stanmore...
