First Community Planting Day confirmed

Mark Saturday 10th of June down in your diaries for a planting day at the White Rock Hills property, Marohemo – your hosts Bryce & Aneta, Peter & Prue.  This follows on from the success of last season’s planting, and demonstrates their commitment to an ongoing...

It’s all go in the Otamatea HarbourCare nursery

While there are a few carryover plants from last season, the main focus now is on next year’s crop.  Already kaihikatea, kanuka, houhere, and mahoe seedlings propagated in the nursery have been pricked out, and the first of the consignments of our flax, cabbage tree...

Matakohe kids get their coats off

More than 90 years after our first New Zealand-born Prime Minister used the election slogan ‘Coats off with Coates’, students from his old school at Matakohe did just that as they planted trees at Ruatuna, the Coates family farm, now cared for by Heritage New Zealand....