Updates

Otamatea HarbourCare Society (Inc) Members and supporters are invited to our Annual General Meeting on Tuesday 8th August 2023 starting at 6pm Paparoa Memorial Hall, Paparoa Grant O'Neill Secretary

From the April Paparoa Press The volunteers of Otamatea HarbourCare Society are looking forward to planting season as the weather cools, and plants in the Station Road nursery managed by Mark MacKenzie grow ever larger. OHS grows around 20,000 plants each year from...

The latest Kaipara Moana Remediation newsletter has a great story on our giant colleagues across at Kauri Park. They are growing a lot of plants! https://kmr.org.nz/new-and-events/our-people-phil-vern-and-terry-wearmouth-kauri-park-kaiwaka/

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!

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...

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...

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...

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...

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