by Mark Vincent | December 5, 2020 | Press Releases
The 2020 planting season is now over for Otamatea HarbourCare and our attention has turned to next season’s crop. I collect the seed in the Autumn, prepare it for germination then send it off to a nursery specialising in propagation. Starting a couple of...
by Grant O'Neill | December 5, 2020 | Press Clippings, Press Releases
A planting scheme helping farmers in Northland is reaping benefits with “how to do it” approach. “What we offer is the carrot,” says the secretary of the Otamatea HarbourCare Society, Mark Vincent, well aware that many farmers believe they are...
by Mark Vincent | June 4, 2018 | Press Releases
Saturday 23rd June will be the third time we will have held a community planting day at the White Rock Hills property, Marohemo – your hosts Bryce & Aneta, Peter & Prue. Of course it has been a brilliant Summer/Autumn for plant survival, and we look forward to...
by Mark Vincent | March 15, 2018 | Press Releases
As a result of an awesome grant from Foundation North to meet nursery costs (and a lot of hard work from our trusty nursery volunteers), the HarbourCare committee has now decided how best to help landowners who want to plant trees. So, if: The site is within the...
by Mark Vincent | June 15, 2017 | Press Releases
As this year’s planting season gets underway it is good to look back on the previous year’s achievements. The Society’s business plan called for 16,000 trees to be planted in 2016, and this was more than achieved, spread over 13 sites in the area. This compares with...
by Mark Vincent | June 11, 2017 | Press Releases
The Mayoral chain and robes were notably absent when Kaipara Mayor Greg Gent joined Otamatea HarbourCare’s community planting day at the Lupton farm last Saturday. Rather, spade and gumboots were the order of the day. Apart from getting over 1,500 trees in the...
