Added posts and pages for Oct 2014 survey.

posts/minutes-from-the-planning-meeting.rst

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+.. title: Minutes from the planning meeting
+.. slug: minutes-from-the-planning-meeting
+.. date: 2014-05-08 20:32:57 UTC+13:00
+.. tags: minutes, planning
+.. link: 
+.. description: 
+.. type: restructuredText
+
+Thanks to those who attended the meeting last Thursday! I'm sorry I've left it so late but here are the minutes from the meeting.
+
+There was a lot of lively discussion, and some of the ideas and suggestions follow:
+
+- A Pukerua Bay garden tour fundraiser event
+- Learn from the `Island Bay Community Garden <https://sites.google.com/site/ibbcommunityorchard/>`_ - watch the NZ documentary, `Gardening With Soul <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KkzFh83J8xA>`_ (see below for the trailer)
+- Allotments produce vegetables quickly, while the food-forest take a few years to establish.
+- Allotments also provide social opportunities
+- All sorts of opportunities to involve the school
+- Start the orchard trees off in the school shade-house and get the kids involved early
+- A school trip to learn from Raumati School's garden project
+- Use produce from the food forest in school lunches
+- Beehives
+- Heritage varieties - educational opportunities
+- Growing mushrooms in sawdust, logs, compost
+- Erosion and sediment control plan, if we do any earthworks (e.g. building swales)
+- Use the `PKB Traders Facebook page <https://www.facebook.com/groups/pkb.trading>`_
+
+Gardening With Soul trailer:
+
+.. youtube:: KkzFh83J8xA
+    :height: 315
+    :width: 560
+
+Expertise
+---------
+
+Amongst the group here we have: gardening, beekeeping, manual labour, web and graphic design, signwriting, building, and a structural engineer, and probably all sorts of other skills I'm not aware of...!
+
+Actions
+-------
+
+1. There is a **"field trip" this Sunday 11 May** for anyone keen - we're going to look at Pauline's excellent garden at 10am and then go and have a look at the proposed site in Muri Reserve (`see map <http://goo.gl/Odu8Wx>`_). I'm hoping we can get Richard and/or Tim from `Innermost Gardens <http://www.innermostgardens.org.nz/>`_ (Majoribanks Street, Wellington) to come along and help us with ideas.
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+2. It's great to have the RA behind the garden scheme, and it's part of the village plan. Iain is going to follow up with getting the required **official permission from Porirua City Council**. This will probably involve some paperwork - some of which will come under the RA banner.
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+3. Iain is also going to set up the gardens **email list** - more about that soon.
+
+4. **Create an A4 poster** for the dairy & school notice boards, school shade house, and something to go in the school newsletter.
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+5. If we wanted to we could set about getting the long grass on the site under control with a team of mowers and weed-trimmers at any time, without the council's permission.
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+6. Also worth noting there is a **Residents Association meeting on Tuesday 13 May** for those interested.
+
+

posts/muri-reserve-consultation.rst

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+.. title: Muri Reserve Consultation
+.. slug: muri-reserve-consultation
+.. date: 2014-10-21 21:21:03 UTC+13:00
+.. tags: planning, residents association, council
+.. link: 
+.. description: 
+.. type: text
+
+The Pukerua Bay Residents' Association is conducting some
+`community consultation <http://pukeruabay.org.nz/community/muriReserveConsultation.html>`_
+about how Muri Reserve can be developed,
+and have published an `online survey <https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/WJQVRJ9>`_
+for residents to complete.
+If you have ideas about the community garden food forest, please complete the survey
+**before the end of October**,
+and let the Residents' Association know your views!
+

posts/pukerua-bay-school-gala.rst

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-.. image:: /assets/images/communitygarden-map.png
+.. figure:: /assets/images/communitygarden-map.png
    :align: right
    :alt: Map of the proposed community garden site in the Muri Reserve.
 
+   Map of the proposed community garden site in the Muri Reserve.
+
 Hi folks! If you're reading this, you've either searched for it on Google,
 or got here from the URL on the brochure at the School Gala. Either way -
 welcome to the website! I'd like to use this as a hub for lively discussions,
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 Proposed garden site in Muri Reserve
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-The Pukerua Bay Residents' Association have decided on
+The Pukerua Bay Residents' Association have proposed
 a location for the community garden, in the Muri Reserve behind the closed Muri
 train station, as indicated on the map. There is a
 `Google map with more details here <http://goo.gl/Odu8Wx>`_.