The Beaven family are off to Wellington. Kari and Iluka have been regular helpers at the Community Nursery this year and my heartfelt thanks go to Kari for all the help and inspiration she has given with school groups visiting the nursery and education centre. Kari and Iluka have become “regulars” on volunteer Fridays and at other events at the nursery and we will all miss them, but wish them well in their new adventures around the Wellington coast .We hope they keep in touch and we know their influence will spread across the North Island. Go well - from Chris and Linda and everyone at the Community Nursery.
Posted: 11 October 2015
After last season’s successful foraging workshops we are holding a spring foraging workshop with Maggie, Chris and Linda on Wednesday 21 October.
Springtime is one of the best times for foraging as all the new seedlings come up (to be identified), edibles are sweet and succulent and its surprising what you can find when you start looking.
Meet at the Community Nursery main carpark at 183 Grant Road at 6.30pm for a foraging walk. Bring gumboots and coats and a trowel and pots if you want to dig up some foragables along the way. No need to book but bring along your $5 note on the night.
There will also be some foraged delights to sample in the Education Centre once we have finished the walk.
Workshop description
Posted: 11 October 2015
Community Nursery Open after the winter break
The Community Nursery is open again, its spring and seedlings are coming up. The cuttings we took in June are starting to show signs of life.
It’s a great time to look forward to all the good things coming up in summer. It’s also time to look forward to planting your native trees and shrubs, establishing shelterbelts, maybe put in a pond? It’s a good time to get advice on the right plants for your own situation, so come along on a Friday morning.
In the nursery it’s time to spring-clean – weeding out old stock that hasn’t done well over winter and prepare areas for newly propagated plants. The pricking out seedlings, potting up and weeding, weeding and more weeding!
The Education Centre is also open for bookings – school visits, workshops etc, so get in touch if you want to hire the centre.
We also have a new volunteer! Chris’s Mum is over from the UK for a holiday and is the newest member of our workforce!
Posted: 24 September 2015
Another Jo Ogier Art Workshop coming up – “Field Sketching and Nature Journaling” – Saturday 31 October and Sunday 1 November 2015.
This will be a two day weekend workshop, utilising the Education Centre and the bush, ponds and natural areas. Unlike the previous one day workshops this workshop will be over two days to take advantage of weather and light conditions to combine outside sketching with indoor detailed work in a flexible way.
“Nature Journaling is a wonderful way of making your own study of the Natural World around you. The main emphasis is on YOUR observations of nature - recording and reflecting on what you have seen or discovered. It can be done anywhere: from just looking out your window at home; to what you see on a walk to the park or a field trip into the mountains; it may also be just what is happening in the vegetable garden. Nature is everywhere ready to be explored” – Jo Ogier.
For more details see workshop flyer
Posted: 24 September 2015
The Community Nursery will be closed for winter, reopening on Friday 18th September - see you then. Regards
Chris.
Posted: 11 July 2015
