October - Spring is here!
While Brian and I were away visiting family and friends in the UK the “closed” nursery went on as usual with Linda and Ray and regular volunteers coming and helping on Fridays. While we enjoyed the best summer in the UK for many years, there was the odd rainy day - as experienced while camping with nephew Jack in Devon - see his delight as a river started running into our tent!
The Otatara Landcare Group held the third Living Legends planting event in August with 3500 of Linda and Ray’s nursery grown plants going to Bushy Point - totalling 10,000 native plants in the last three years - a mightly effort by the Landcare Group committee, Otarara volunteers, schoolchildren and the public.
The Nature Centre - though not quite finished, was equipped well enough for ES Enviroschools Mark Oster and Pat Hoffman to hold two workshops in the building - one for school caretakers and one for teachers. Both were well received and the Nature Centre proved to be a good venue for the workshops. We are now gearing up for school visits and other workshops.
Murals by Janet Hodgetts and an interactive “tunnel” in the Nature Centre are big drawcards for the children who visit!
Posted: 2 October 2013