10am to 2pm: Meet at playground off Queens Drive.
Pulling as much ivy as we can - can we top the 12 fadges we managed in March?
Please bring your own garden gloves, thanks
All welcome. Stop anytime for a free BBQ!
(If you can’t make the 28th; We are there every Wednesday 10am - noon and tackling many other weeds - see the photos for the latest inroads on crack willow.)
Join us this coming Saturday, 2.00pm – 4.00pm for our spring working bee.
This season we are starting early to get on top of things in priority areas before spring growth takes off. The first priority is the series of 2022 plantings alongside the Totara block, where broom and poroporo are competing strongly with many young trees, and hopefully cleaning up here may be the final releasing needed in these areas. Grass is also competing strongly with a lot of the younger trees in the area below the
lookout seat and surrounds. Various methods can be used to release the trees and suppress competing grass etc growth, as will be demonstrated on the day.
We will meet at the lookout seat accessed from the Bryson Rd entrance to Bushy Point.
Please bring:
Feel free to join the working bee at any stage, and only stay for as long as you can.
Please contact Douglas Black on 022 104 8661 for more information if required.
With a theme of ‘small things can make a big difference’, lots of ideas for all ages to be involved starting from 1st September to celebrate Conservation Week this year.
Nature Art workshop 1.30-2.30pm Sun 14 Sept. All events free; just turn up! More details here and on Environment Southland fb page.
Competition winners will receive a copy of Observologist by Giselle Clarkson. Age categories 0-7yrs, 8-12yrs, 13-113yrs….
Despite the hail, as the Bug Hotel making was thankfully indoors, on 6 Sept. a dedicated group of families created several new hotels for the critters in their gardens. (see photos)
Meet 9:55am in the car park.
We have been clearing the block near to the track parallel to Gimblet St. This contains a large patch of willows and the same area has had some kohuhu and kahikatea planted there in the past. Added to this there are elder bushes, Copsrosma robusta, ivy and blackberrry: plenty to clear!
With thanks to Ron And Edna Greenwood Environmental Trust for funds to purchase more herbicide for our ongoing pest plant control.
and HUGE THANKS to the helpers, of all ages, who have contributed their time and energy over the school holidays :)
The Waikawa Community Nursery is holding a fifth working bee to set-up the nursery - this time we’re putting together a kitset storage shed and setting up a place for plants to grow and harden off. You’ll find us behind the Waikawa Museum.
Please feel free to come down and help out or learn more about plans for the nursery. You might like to bring gloves and a thermos in case it’s cold day. All are welcome.
For more information contact:
Kelsi Hayes (027 349 5850) or Jesse Bythell (020 400 32109)
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