Updates

Lions Community planting event this Saturday morning A couple of weeks ago Jim and some other committed members of the community went and planted about 1,100 trees alongside part of the Lions walkway beyond the newly extended boardwalk.  More than 3,000 trees had...

It was a huge success when the Otamatea Weed Control Group, Otamatea HarbourCare, Pest FreePeninsulas and Paparoa Lions combined forces for a planting day at Jacque and Jerome’s last month.The 35 volunteers pitched in and got nearly 1,500 plants in the ground in less...

In October last year an historic agreement was signed at Waihaua Marae, a Memorandum of Understanding between the Crown, local government and local iwi which forms the basis for the government to contribute $100 Million towards the cost of restoring the health of...

Nursery news The plants in the nursery are looking great, and are big enough to be planted out now, but leaving it a month would be safer in terms of soil moisture.  I have had a few enquiries already for plants but won’t be taking any orders until next...

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...

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...

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 bits...

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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...