Re-imagining Flaxmere - Transition Town

Come along for free Kai and Kōrero. This community hui is an opportunity to step back and re-imagine what our Flaxmere community could look like if we get it right transitioning to new ways of being under climate change. Ensuring our people are safe, have healthy food, water, housing, access to energy in a socially just equitable community.

One of the key challenges with creating a low carbon, more resilient future is imagining what that might be like. Vibrant, diverse,
delicious, connected and nurturing, or eating mouldy potatoes in a damp cave? We often hear all the negative stuff about the future floods, fires, droughts, sea level rise..... but we can plan for better. Its important not to wait for the government but to start working as a community to transition to ensure we have al the resources we need to thrive.

We will use a Transition Towns approach in this hui to re-imagine Flaxmere, imagining the future we all want to co-create to be resilient for climate change. Re-imagining is only the first step in bringing these ideas into action.

Some examples of community ideas that have come out of other community Transition town huis are:

• Urban Agriculture- In a Transition world, food will be grown closer to home, organically, in intensive systems that enhance biodiversity, and we’ll all have the skills to do it. It will change the way our towns and cities look and feel
• "Food Belt"- The land adjoining our towns, villages and cities will be reconnected to feeding that place, creating more jobs, and
  reconnecting people with how, where, and by whom their food is grown
• Community Energy- Energy generation, where possible, will be in community ownership. This brings many benefits to local economies, creates jobs and decentralises power (in both meanings of the term).
• Participatory Democracy-Decisions are made in a far more decentralised, engaged, bottom-up way, with the role of government being to support what communities are deciding.
• Cycling- Many Transition groups promote sustainable transport, learning bike repair skills, supporting new cyclists to gain confidence.
• Local economy- We can reimagine our local economies to serve the many, not the few: incubating new enterprises and valuing the local
• Productive Trees- In the future, why would we plant ornamental, unproductive trees, when we could plant fruit or nut trees?
  Let’s reimagine our towns and cities as food forests.

The format of the evening will be a 10 minute talk following by workshopping/ brainstorming in small groups. Food and awesome conversation will be provided.

This event is hosted by Sustainable Hawke's Bay and we welcome anyone interested in participating in the change for a more resilient future Flaxmere.

Book your FREE tickets here and get involved.