Community Nursery Closed for Winter
We will be reopening on Friday 3rd October 2014. In the meantime winter is a great time for reflecting and planning what you will do in the coming season. See you in springtime!
Posted: 16 July 2014
Community Nursery activities in July 2014
After collection of seeds in February to June early July saw us seed cleaning and then seed sowing all the locally collected seeds for next season. Have a look on the website for instruction on how to grow seed and cuttings.
4 and 11 July - Cuttings workshops have been held – propagating plants that we didn’t manage to get seeds off and creating next seasons stock for the nursery
Posted: 16 July 2014
What have Matariki and Swedes got in common I hear you ask! Well on Friday 20th June we celebrated the changing of the seasons at the nursery with a cuttings workshop in the morning (looking forward to spring and the new growing season), soup and sourdough bread (courtesy of Honorlea), followed by a swede carving workshop in the afternoon. The swedes were formed into lanterns to be used in a number of Matariki events in our community. Rosemarie Smith wrote up the swede part for her “gardening” column in the Southland Times!
Posted: 2 July 2014
It was all action as Waiau Area School arrived at the Community Nursery. The group split into two groups – the first with Honorlea and Chris Mangion exploring the vegetable and fruit gardens and the second with Chris Rance studying the structures and facilities needed to set up a community nursery and garden. There was a lot of activity and enthusiasm as the nursery and garden were explored and ideas were put up on the whiteboard inside the Education Centre. After lunch in the Nature Centre the whole group followed Chris around the ponds and bush tracks, collecting seeds and learning about native plants and animal pests along the way.
Posted: 17 June 2014
On 5th June 2014, twenty-eight Southland Girls Environment Group students visited the Community Nursery. Accompanied by Lynley King and Chris they explored the pond and tracks looking at native plants and collecting seeds along the way. Back at the education Centre Chris explained the process for cleaning and sowing of seeds. Some students took seeds away to sow themselves. Seeds would also be sown at the Nursery, expected germination was September, and seedlings would be pricked out after germination in spring.
Posted: 17 June 2014