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Monday 9am - 2pm Tuesday 9am - 2pm Wednesday 9am - 2pm Thursday 9am - 2pm Friday 9am - 2pm Saturday 8am - 3pm Sunday 9am - 3pm

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Our Eco Hub is a place for sustainability and environment businesses to have a place for meetings and work. This hub is for everyone to use and love!

Opening Hours:
☕Riverlution Café: Mon-Fri 9am - 2pm,
Sat 8am-3pm
Sun 9am-3pm
♻️Riverlution Eco Hub: Mon-Fri 10am-2pm

Riverlution 🌿 unites the Eco Hub at 46A Vogel Street, Precious Plastic ♻️, and Café ☕ at 50B Vogel Street in Richmond Community Garden We're providing informative seminars for the community to come along, and free tools to borrow.

14/10/2026

Eco Educate ♻️♻️♻️

13/10/2026

🌸 Spring Fair 2026 is almost here! 🌸

Winter's done, so come shake it off with us on Saturday 17 October, 10am–2pm. Our Spring Fair is back for its 8th year, filling the whole stretch from Avebury House (9 Eveleyn Couzins Ave) down to Richmond Community Garden (46A Vogel Street). Bring your walking shoes!

There'll be so many not-for-profit stalls showcasing their mahi and so many local vendors to support. Ocean Ember Sauna is bringing a mobile sauna 🔥, Spokes is bringing back the bike valet, and the WEA will be on hand to get you enrolled to vote.

For the tamariki, there are games and sack races behind the pool, plus face painting, the Shirley Library Van and the Stormwater Superheroes down in the playground.

🎨 Up at Avebury House, Heritage Festival joins the party with a history exhibit, Devonshire Tea and the Vintage Market. 🫖

🌍 It's also International Repair Day, so our Repair Café is running all day at the Riverlution Eco Hub. Bring along that thing you've been meaning to fix and sit down with one of our volunteer fixers to work on it together. Every repair keeps something out of landfill. 🔧

We're super grateful to World Stanmore for sponsoring the sausage sizzle on the day, so come hungry, grab a $3 sausage and say thanks to the team. 🌭💚

💚 A huge thank you to everyone making it happen: We Are Richmond, Avebury House, Riverlution Parkrun, Eastern Community Sport, Rotary Club of Christchurch Sunrise, Canterbury Neighbourhood Support, Christchurch City Council and the CCC Graffiti Team, Supergrans Ōtautahi, Kitty Haven, Plant Based Treaty, NTRAĀ Charitable Trust, Creative Junk, Ocean Ember Sauna, The White Room, Rainbow Ride (Biketober), Delta Community Trust, Recreate, WEA, Consumer NZ, Ōtākaro Orchard.

🛍️ And come support our local vendors: Bee Awesome, Sour, Birchfield Greens, Dutch Cheese, Foraging Corner, Tomato Boy, The Chocolatier, Alfa Pets and Little Brown Egg, plus the car boot sale. And there's much more on the other side around the paddling pool and Avebury House! 🏡

🎶 Plus entertainment all day, with live music to keep the good vibes going.

Event link: https://www.facebook.com/share/1Pz364fkkx/

Kai, music, good company and a great day out. We'd love to see you there!

07/10/2026

We've had beautiful blooms all around the café this month. It's a lovely spot to sit with a coffee and soak up the spring sunshine.

There's also a new way to linger: a checkers table made from upcycled plastic, kindly donated by . Grab a friend, pull up a seat and settle in for a game.

The tamariki had plenty to do over the school holidays. Shirley Library joined us for a picnic and storytelling, and Wild Wanderers turned the mud kitchen into a sensory play space. We've also added hay bale seating around the site, so there are more places to stop and enjoy the garden.

You may have seen Reggie at the farmers market. She's now joined our café team, and she's brought her wonderful aprons with her. Welcome to the team, Reggie.

Keep an eye out for some new faces this summer too. We hope to help more young people get their first jobs here at the café.

Even as the weather warms up, our classic cheese toasties on Bellbird sourdough are a firm favourite. If you haven't tried one yet, give it a go. They're good fuel for bikers, walkers and explorers. And here's something you might not know: thanks to , we have a well-equipped toolbox for cyclists who need a quick adjustment or minor repair on the go.

We're excited about what's to come this spring, and it's definitely ice cream weather now. See you soon for a brew or a scoop ☕🍦

13/09/2026

Ki te māra ngā manu o Rehua 🌿🐦

Come explore the Swanns Road Wildlife Garden with Christchurch City Council! Join the rangers and rangatahi as we get to know the insects and plants that call this space home and the special relationships between them.

This little patch of the red zone is being grown into a wildlife garden, showing what we can all do in our own backyards to bring more biodiversity into the city. The native plants here have long-standing relationships with our manu and pepeke — offering kai, marumaru (shelter), and safe places to nest.

Nau mai kararehe mā ki tō koutou māra — welcome wildlife to your garden!

They'll be hunting for bugs, learning the names of the rākau, manu, and pepeke, and singing with the birds along the way.

Wear sturdy hū (footwear) and bring a takawai (water bottle).

📅 Wednesday 16 September, 3:30–5pm
📍 Swanns Road Wildlife Garden
Free — everyone welcome!
Link: https://ccc.govt.nz/news-and-events/whats-on/event/ki-te-mara-nga-manu-o-rehua-2

08/09/2026

Kia ora koutou! 🧦🪡

Got holes in your socks, jerseys, or favourite woollens? Come along to Repair Revolution: Hand Darning and give them a new lease of life.

📅 Tuesday 15th September
🕠 5:30pm–7:00pm
📍 Riverlution Eco Hub

What to bring:

Your items needing darning — socks, holey jersey sleeves, you name it
Some similar-coloured yarn or wool to match your mend (op shops are a great spot to find odd balls if you don't have any at home) — or go bold and darn in a contrast colour
If the hole's on the larger side, bring another similar wool item you don't mind sacrificing — it can be cut up to reinforce the patch (an old sock you're not using is perfect)
An orange! It works a treat as a darning mushroom to hold the fabric in shape while you stitch

Needles will be provided, and our usual repairers will be there too, alongside friendly volunteers on hand to help you learn the craft.

This kaupapa is part of Repair Cafe Aotearoa's Repair Festival, running right across the motu from 5–27 September. Communities of repair already exist all over Aotearoa — passionate people, a bit of patience, and a shared drive to keep things in use for longer. Come curious, leave inspired.

Want to be part of it? We'd love to see you there.

🔗 Event link: https://www.facebook.com/share/187hshu3jC/

And while we're talking repair... our friends at Repair Network Aotearoa are running a quick survey exploring a repair incentive scheme for the Wellington region. If you're Wellington-based, they'd love 5 minutes of your time to help make the case for repair right across Aotearoa.
👉 https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/87Z66R6

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02/09/2026

🌸 Spring Fair 2026 — Saturday 17 October 🌸

Richmond Community Garden, We Are Richmond and Avebury House are joining forces for our annual Spring Fair, a full day of community, creativity and connection across the site!

What's on:
🛍️ Vintage Market at Avebury
🏛️ Heritage exhibition
🚗 Car boot sale & bric-a-brac
🌿 Local vendors, seedlings and sustainable living activities
🔧 Repair Revolution (more below!)
💧 Mud kitchen & kids' play area by the playground
💃 Live dance performances
☕ Coffee and ice cream from the Riverlution Café
Spring Fair link: https://www.facebook.com/share/1D8cDjy6cs/

Local organisations will be on hand throughout the day sharing their mahi and ways to get involved.

It's time to revolt against throw-away culture! As part of the Fair, we're running a full Repair Revolution, a day of hands-on repair, creativity and community. Bring your broken bits and pieces (plus any parts you need) along to:

🧵 Our hand-sewing station at the front of the Hub, for mending clothes and textiles
🛠️ Our Repair Stations inside the Riverlution Eco Hub — torn clothes, stuck zippers, furniture, lamps, electronics, ceramics, toys, shoes, jewellery, knives and more

Let's reclaim the things we own and take pride in looking after them.

Got a car boot's worth of treasures? Book your spot: [email protected]
Keen to busk? We'd love to have you — get in touch to arrange a slot.

Spring Fair Repair Link: https://www.facebook.com/share/1DL4qHSViH/

Mark the date — see you there! 🌱

30/08/2026

🌞🌱 What a fabulous day at the garden last Wednesday!

We celebrated our wonderful garden coordinator, Rachel, along with our yearly Silly Hat Day, and we were blessed with some truly extraordinary weather to go with it. Even our Café team got in on the silly hat action! 😄

A huge congratulations to Dave, our chief mower, who took out Best Silly Hat and went home with a bottle of our delightful olive oil as his prize. 🏆🫒

Over in the garden, this week's session was all about tidying up the raspberry bed, ready for the season ahead.

So lovely to have the sunshine out and so many smiles around the site today. Thanks to everyone who came along and made it such a great one.

Happy gardening! 🌱🌞

24/08/2026

Looking for a good reason to get out of the house this Saturday? Riverlution Farmers Market in Richmond has become one of our regular stops, and it’s easy to see why.

There’s organic veg, fresh bread, good coffee and kai to pick up for the week. For $1 the kids can feed the chickens, and there’s a mud kitchen, tunnel and sand play to keep them busy while you shop. Toys and books too if you want to slow down and stay a while.

It’s right next to Avebury Playground, so if the kids need to run off more energy afterwards, that’s sorted too.

📍 50 Vogel Street, Richmond Community Garden
🕘 Every Saturday, 9am to 12.30pm

Save this for next weekend, or tag someone who needs a new Saturday plan.

12/08/2026

Did you know about Riverlution Farmer's Market?

Come along this Saturday and support our amazing local growers, makers and small businesses 🥕🍞🍯☕️

There's fresh local kai, delicious treats, handmade goodies and plenty of community vibes - definitely something for everyone 💚

📍 Richmond Community Garden, 50 Vogel Street
🗓️ Every Saturday
⏰ 9:00am–12:30pm

Bring your reusable bags, bring your whānau, and come say kia ora 🌱

09/08/2026

Our new digital menu is here! ☕️🌿

You can now check out everything we’ve got on offer at Riverlution Café - coffee, toasties, Bellbird pastries, ice cream, sweet treats, teas and cold drinks.

We’ve also got plenty of vegan-friendly options, alternative milks at no extra cost, and goodies from our garden.

Have a look next time you’re deciding what to order 👀

Ngā mihi nui to our wonderful intern Léa who helped create the menu with the help of the team!

We hope to see you at Riverlution café soon 💚

Address

46a Vogel Street
Christchurch
8013

Opening Hours

Monday	9am - 2pm
Tuesday	9am - 2pm
Wednesday	9am - 2pm
Thursday	9am - 2pm
Friday	9am - 2pm
Saturday	8am - 3pm
Sunday	9am - 3pm

Website

https://richmondcommunitygarden.co.nz/

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