Otamatea HarbourCare Update – 22 March 2021

Well I must have been having fun, because the five months since the last Update have really flown.  The main thing is that the plants in the nursery are overall looking really good, most of our mainstay flax Manuka and cabbage trees would be big enough for them...

Kaipara Moana Remediation Update

Integrated Kaipara Harbour Management Group have provided the attached update on what is happening around the Kaipara catchment, particularly around the Kaipara Moana Remediation. Click below to read the first panui of the progress being made to date as we all wait to...

Working Bee: Friday 12 February

Happy New Year again people This Friday morning there’s a variety of tasks to attend to; NEW ROOF: good progress has been made in preparing the potting up area to get a new plastic roof, which means that there are bits of plastic to fold up for disposal, lots of...

Otamatea HarbourCare Update – 15 October 2020

In the last Update I said that we had taken delivery of about 6,000 baby flax plants.  It ended up being just over 7,000, so that’s a good start.  The recent rain was a great help too for topping the water supply dam up, and good to know that this season’s...