Locally sourced native plants available at reasonable prices from the Southland Community Nursery, 185 Grant Rd, Otatara. Enhance your gardens, bush, attract native birds, create a wetland with very affordable native plants grown from locally sourced seed and cuttings. Southland Community Nursery, 185 Grant Road, Otatara. 1pm-3pm - contact Chris 213 1161
Join Otatara Landcare Group members in their monthly maintenance of Bushy Point. The Bushy Point restoration project is the main project of the Otatara Landcare Group. Large areas of revegetation have been undertaken, some in conjunction with the Living Legends project. Ongoing maintenance is mainly undertaken by volunteers. So if you have the time, an hour or ten minutes - we’ll be pleased to see you. 1pm-3pm enter from Bryson Road entrance.
Home Creek just south of Manapouri has been an annual field trip for Forest and Bird for many years. Home Creek is the property of the Waiau Trust and over the last ten years has changed from an area dominated by exotic grasses to one showing much natural character, thanks to the effort of Edith Jones and her many helpers. Join Forest and Bird on their annual trip to the area, leaving Southland Museum at 9.30am or meeting at the Home Creek car park, turn off just south of Manapouri, at 11.00am. Lunch will be at the Balloon Loop where Edith will explain about the weed issue there of cotoneaster. After lunch we will head to the DOC Wilderness Reserve, the area of bog pine on the main road out of Te Anau, where heather and wilding pines are a problem. A working bee here will scan the area for either of these weed species and control undertaken. For further information, please contact Edith Jones, [Enable JavaScript to view protected content].
Spend the day helping remove wilding pines from Mid Dome. You will need to be reasonably fit and wear suitable footwear and clothing for a day in the mountains. 4WD transport and lunch will be provided. Registrations essential as spaces are limited. Contact Randall Milne on 0800 76 88 45 or email [Enable JavaScript to view protected content]
A trip through the Waituna Catchment hearing about actions being taken by landowners to protect biodiversity and improve water quality. PROGRAMME 10.00am Warnock’s Farm, 226 Mokotua Rd – check out the wetland development, one of the tools recommended to remove nutrients from the drainage systems before they reach the streams. 10.45am van Gool’s Farm - the restoration of the original Bay Bush and protection of tussock gully systems, along with riparian plantings along the Jordan Stream. 12.15pm Munro’s Farm – Lunch break (BYO picnic lunch ) Wetland protection with QEII, moats used as stock barriers, walk through peatbog/regenerating forest. 2.30pm Whitepine Rd – Battering of the banks, Shag Bush restoration. 3.15pm Waghorn’s Lookout – Afternoon tea & some Waituna tales with Murray Waghorn For further information please contact Gay Munro, ph 239 5827 or email [Enable JavaScript to view protected content] If you would like to carpool from Invercargill, meet at the Southland Museum at 9.30am