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WHAT'S ON IN AUGUST
World Heli Challenge - From Snow to Sow
Volunteers - Nursery Winter Hours
Volunteer hours during July will be Tuesday and Wednesday 1pm to 4pm. All welcome, Venus coffee and Dilmah tea provided.
Contact Nursery Manager Andrew Penniket on 021 342 187. more...
Plants for Community Projects
Do you have a native planting project which will benefit our local community? Are you protecting, restoring or revegetating our local environment? We can provide your project with local eco-sourced plants. Apply here...
Planting at Waterfall Creek - 14 August 2010
The day dawned overcast, but sunshine edged over later in the morning on Saturday 14 August, for yet another fabulous planting day at Waterfall Creek. It had rained rather significantly overnight, so the soil was in prime condition and the creek was gushing with gusto, making it easy for our planting efforts throughout the day. More...
Planting at Waterfall Creek - 17 July 2010
What a glorious day - on Saturday, 17th July, the sun shone down on a keen squad of 23 volunteers who spent their morning participating in Te Kākano Aotearoa Trust’s native habitat restoration project in the Waterfall Creek area. More...
Planting at Millennium Track - 26 June 2010
This Saturday a small but enthusiastic team of 11 volunteers sacrificed their first Saturday's skiing of the year to plant 100 natives along Wanaka’s Millennium Track. More...
Arbour Day Planting at Fossil Creek - 5 June 2010
On the first Saturday in June 25 volunteers helped Te Kākano mark Arbor Day by planting 200 natives along Wanaka’s Millennium Track at Fossil Creek and in the hidden cove below. More...
Mou Waho Planting Day - May 2010
We held our first planting day on Mou Waho Island on Sunday 23 May. 24 volunteers came along to explore the island and help plant over 200 mahoe and kapuka. more...
Enviroschool Central Otago Hui held at Te Kakano and Rippon in March 2010
Approximately 30 pupils along with teachers and parents from six different primary schools attended the Enviroschools Central Otago Hui. The group spent the day exploring Rippon Vineyard and Te Kākano’s Nursery. At Te Kākano they learnt about propagating native plants and had a competition to name all the different plants in te nursery. Later they explored te foreshore and learnt about te local environment and how to measure water quality in Waterfall Creek (very high as it turns out). Big thanks to Simon Williams of Wanaka Wastebusters for bringing together a great group of kids. A great day was had by all.
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We Celebrated our First Birthday in November 2010
In November we celebrated our first birthday in style with an open afternoon. Over 100 people joined us to toast our achievements and share the birthday cake. Thanks to everyone who helped to make the day a success.
BNZ - Closed for Good
On Wednesday 4 November 2009 four BNZ employees: Karen Dennis, Michelle Wilkins, Penny Ford and Kirsten Mathias joined our nursery manager Andrew Penniket for a day of volunteering. They did a great job of potting up seedlings for future projects and getting the nursery ship shape for our open afternoon. Thanks girls!
