Latest highlights:
Planting Day at Batley
Other Planting Activity
Permaculture Course
Planting Day at Batley
I don’t know how we do it, but once again the weather was fine for our third community planting day of the year, when Rex and Rae Roadley hosted us at Batley. There was a great turnout from locals and friends and family of the locals, along with a bunch of volunteers from the Spark Foundation. They were all willing workers, and we must have got nearly a thousand trees in the ground at three areas along the nine kilometres of coastline along the boundary of the Roadley property. And of course the country hospitality was great, and I think everyone went away happy that they had done something worthwhile as well as having met some new people. A couple of us went back the following week to finish the job off for the year.
Other Planting Activity
More recently I arranged for a contract planter, Joshua Hare to get more than 1,500 trees planted in about a day-and-a-half at two sites, one near Paparoa, the other near Matakohe. Just as well there was only one of him – I was only just able to keep up with laying the plants out!
A number of our regulars have also taken more plants to complete their plantings for the year, so that we can now say that about 18,500 trees have been planted this year under the HarbourCare banner. We will crack 20K before we’re finished.
Permaculture Course
One of our supporters, Daniel Tohill has asked me to circulate the attached flyer and promotion of a permaculture course he is running next year. It is quite a commitment, so it would be good to have a think about this now, and talk to Daniel about it to find out more if you are interested. It’s a small world! Back in the early 1980s, while I was a shepherd-general hand on the sheep farm in the Bay of Islands, Daniel was mustering tamarillos on a Kerikeri orchard, so we go back a long way together.