Friday 15 December 2017 - Christmas Breakup
What a fantastic morning! Fourty-five people came to help celebrate another wonderful year at the Community Nursery. During 2017 over 1000 people, mostly school children, have come to the Nursery, lots of diverse workshops have been held (thanks to ILT Foundation funding) and Friday morning nursery volunteers have been as active as previous years. It’s estimated that around 8-10,000 native plants are grown and planted out each year, with volunteers taking plants away for their efforts and sale of plants to the public being the main source of funding for the general Nursery and Education Centre expenses.
Chris particularly thanked Brian for his inspiration and support, Linda and Ray for Nursery support, Bronwyn for school support and Dawn for support of everything conservation! All are such valuable friends, we couldn’t do without them. But… the Nursery is a community of people that support each other and everyone’s contribution makes it the success that it is.
On the day there were lots of activities – largely self-directed – from making Mexican Christmas decorations, to weaving Christmas wreaths from natural materials, making flax flowers, making and sailing boats (again from natural materials), making giant bubbles with Alan Admore. The final event was the traditional Christmas pinata (with a less than traditional donkey design!) where the blindfolded children had fun trying to break it open – eventually Zade delivered the blow that spilled the contents for everyone to gather up!
Honorlea was there with her “Kakariki Natural Beauty” Body Products made from natural materials and Darren brought along hand crafted breadboards for those last minute Christmas gifts.
Of course food always helps oil the wheels and everyone tucked into a glorious spread of offerings brought by everyone who attended.
Have a very Merry Christmas and we will re-open on Friday 5th January 2018!
Chris
Posted: 17 December 2017