Felt Making at the Nursery!
A new skill is taught by Linda at the Nursery - felt making!
Posted: 17 February 2014
World Wetlands Day at the Community Nursery
In February, World Wetlands day was celebrated with Gorge Road school children at the Community Nursery.
The group was accompanied by Mark Oster, Enviromental Educator, with a range of activities in the new Education Centre and in the Rances created wetland on the property. Pond life and introduced pests were the main topics with story telling and discovery (even a rat caught in a trap!).
Posted: 17 February 2014
Volunteering at the Rances
During January and February there are lots of jobs to be done around the property, as well as the nursery on Fridays. Jack from Christchurch came in his “Rolling Home” to help pot and plant in early January and Laura and Beatty, from Auckland got stuck into lots of jobs while staying here in January and February. Jobs included covering fruit trees to deter birds, nursery work, track maintenance and making new tracks, extracting pine nut kernals, picking fruit, jam making, felt-making as well as some R&R - biking and fishing!
Posted: 17 February 2014
Christmas Breakup at the Nursery
The final nursery volunteer Friday for 2013 was a very festive affair! The christmas tree was decorated, people brought a fine spread of food to share for morning tea and the “bubbleman” Alan Admore came with his marvellous array of bubblemaking devices.
Thanks to all our volunteers in 2013 who have helped to make the Community Nursery a truly wonderful community place - and by the way we did produce over 10,000 locally sourced native plants to go out into the Southland environment this year as well!
With your help, we look forward to 2014 - Chris and Brian
Posted: 21 December 2013
Busy time since opening the Nature Centre
Since opening the nature Education Centre we have had a number of schools and groups visiting - at the end of November Otautau Scool visited as part of their trip to Omaui Camp. On 27 November Southland Girls High School visited Bushy Point and the Centre with John Kennedy and Lynley King - learning about pest animals. This visit was followed by a group of SBS banking staff learning about pests and native plants accompanied by Environment Southland staff. The SBS staff were particularly interested in our “kiwi saver” koha scheme! (see photo below).
On 5th November Makarewa Preschool visited and spent the morning looking around the ponds and tracks, playing “leaf bingo” and testing out the activity sheets sensory trail as well as potting up seedlings in the Nursery.
During the latter part of December a number of groups had their Christmas breakup mettings at the Centre - Otatara Landcare Group, Southland Forest and Bird and Southland Natural History Society. We welcome the use of the centre for meetings and workshops.
Posted: 21 December 2013
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