by Grant O'Neill | January 28, 2023 | Updates
Over 9,000 manuka, and more than 5,000 flax as well as 3,000 grass seedlings are growing very well in the nursery right now. Many thanks to everyone who helped planting them up last year!
by Grant O'Neill | October 2, 2022 | Updates
Weather permitting, there will be a working bee in the Petley Rd nursery this Wednesday starting at 8.30-ish in the morning. We will aim to have a general tidyup and get stuff sorted for shifting to the new nusery site at Paparoa Station Road. There are pots to...
by Grant O'Neill | September 18, 2022 | Updates
Otamataea HarbourCare marked the retirement of Mark and Cindy Vincent from active roles with us by awarding them Life Membership at a dinner in September. Mark founded the organisation in 2014, and since that time he has been nursery manager and secretary, overseeing...
by Mark Vincent | June 15, 2022 | Updates
Species available:Flax, manuka, cabbage trees, and ake ake. The combination of Kaipara Moana Remediation orders and others from lifestyle blocks has resulted in about three quarters of our stock being collected or committed to planting – and it’s not even the...
by Mark Vincent | February 12, 2022 | Updates
Nursery newsIn the last Update in mid-October we had not started potting up any plants. We were anxiously awaiting the word from our propagating nursery about plants being ready to collect, and how we would get them over the border. I made three trips, which meant...
by Mark Vincent | September 7, 2021 | Updates
Nursery news The nursery is now empty. My aim was to achieve this by the end of August, and we would have just about done this if it had not been for the latest Covid lockdown. I will let you know when I have done the final tally on plants taken by...
