Visit from St Josephs School
On a very cold Tuesday 16th June, 34 students, 3 teachers and parent helpers from St Josephs School in Invercargill
came to the Community Nursery. The students were studying “people affecting natural resources” and for social studies “roles in the community of people who care and are doing something about it”. Here at the Nursery we concentrated on bush clearance and growing native plants to restore areas back to nature. The Community Nursery provides a great place to learn about restoring a paddock back to bush, creating habitat for birds and other creatures and practical activities for seed collecting and sowing and how to grow new plants. Lloyd Esler lead groups around the restoration areas and Chris lead seed lessons in the Education Centre, with assistance from Kari Beaven and Gretchen Leddington from DOC. The children learned how to identify different native trees and how to grow new plants. Chris asked the question “what do seeds need to grow”? - the answer from one student was “soil, light,
water and LOVE” – you just can’t get a better answer that that!
Posted: 21 June 2015