Community Nursery Christmas Breakup Friday 13 December 2024
Since my last post in early October 24 a LOT has happened! The Nursery volunteers have been working hard on Fridays to produce the plants we need for various community and private projects we are supplying plants to this and next year. Spring brings its unpredictable weather, mostly it seems, on a Friday! Good number of volunteers still arrive to support our efforts and we try to make it more comfortable by bringing some jobs like weeding pots inside the education centre. However, there is much more to be done outside so we hope the weather improves on Fridays soon.
The Jo Ogier exhibition is a huge success so if you haven’t been yet, don’t delay, its wonderful and everyone I speak to is in raptures about it. See details here - https://www.esgallery.co.nz/temporary-exhibitions
As well as growing plants we have supplied plants to schools in the Lumsden area, via Jenny Campbell and also supplied worms for Kindergarten worm farms!
Many of you will know Brian and I went away for 3 weeks recently during the busiest time of the Nursery, leaving Linda (and Ray) in charge. Linda does an amazing job organising volunteer Fridays and we also put in place a group of watering volunteers, though the weather provided most of the water over that time I believe! The Nursery watering takes between 1-2 hours to do the entire nursery so it is quite a commitment and we will again be looking for help over the Christmas holiday period.
Meanwhile we had new experiences in Taranaki, doing the Jigger trip from Taumarunui to Stratford – a great thing to do with friends – seeing the landscapes, vegetation and history of the Forgotten World railway. Then on to the Taranaki Garden Festival with its two garden trails (over 100 private gardens), sustainability garden trail and art trail as well as the natural features and walks of Mount Taranaki itself and surrounds including Rotokari Predator Fenced Reserve and the excellent Tawhiti Museum. All highly recommended!
As we got home the SERN trip went ahead on Saturday 16 November 24 and it was a very successful day – https://www.sern.org.nz/news/sern-spring-trip-2024-meandering-the-mataura-river/ and this was followed by the Great Matuku Muster - a workshop on the Sunday in our Education Centre an a night session in Bushy Point listening for bittern – lots of great information from Wendy - https://www.sern.org.nz/events/the-great-matuku-muster/. A full report on the day to come as well as an excellent recent opening for Kowhai Reach on Tuesday.
A date for your Calendar – The Christmas Break- up for the Nursery will be Friday 13 December 2024 – bring your best baking!!
Posted: 28 November 2024