nau mai, haere mai
We are an organisation of mainly volunteers that are working to restore, educate and advocate for our unique dryland plant species of Central Otago and the special creatures that depend upon them.
WHAT IS COMING UP
Thank you to our weeders
We had a lovely evening up at Flat Top Hill last week and I am pleased to say our 2023 planting has lots of room to grow (for now).
PLEASE JOIN OUR VOLUNTEER LIST IF YOU WOULD LIKE TO BE NOTIFIED OF ANY ACTIVITIES WE NEED COMMUNITY ASSISTANCE WITH.
Thank you ALSO TO DUNSTAN HIGH SCHOOL
On Friday we had the pleasure of working with 17 Dunstan High School students and their teachers. This was thanks to a school citizenship project where they worked with Sue at Volunteer South to get students giving back to the community.
The five tasks we had going on were;
-mulching, moving the pine chip from off site to the bare patches in the planting area. Mulching helps suppress weeds and assists the soil to retain moisture.
-tagging, each plant (there are 500) gets a numerical label. This is for our annual monitoring of survival rates at the planting.
-weeding, although the site has been well sprayed we needed to work around the immediate vicinity of the natives (especially the smaller groundcovers) to remove any plant competition.
-monitoring, two special plant communities have been discovered on the reserve. One a Threatened-Nationally vulnerable member of the ranunculus family the other an 'At risk - Declining' mousetail. Both plants are tiny spring annuals and we want to try and track how they are doing and what could be the best way to protect them over the long term in the reserve.
-pine cone picking up, in around 15 mins they cleared half the site of the 'mysterious' pine cones, which I am so grateful to them for. It would have taken me hours and done my back in!
We are extremely thankful to the students that turned up on the day and we hope they enjoyed the experience too.
Nursery sessions are ON
summer hours
COME JOIN US FOR A BIT OF PLANT PROPAGATION AND MORNING TEA. yOU DON'T NEED TO BE THERE FOR THE WHOLE SESSION, WE APPRECIATE ANY TIME YOU CAN GIVE US.
from 9aM to 12pm
No experience necessary
BRING YOUR OWN GLOVES
BRING YOUR OWN MASK - LEGIONELLA BACTERIA PROTECTION
Contact nursery@haehaeata.org.nz for for further information if needed
haehaeata gift cards
Want to support a planting but can't be there yourself?
We have just developed a gifting system where you can buy a plant for a special someone in your life or to support a local native planting project that uses our eco sourced plants. These plants will be planted at the next planting date after your order by a community group. These plantings are on public land so can be visited any time.
By completing the form and making payment we will email out a gift card to your recipient outlining what project is being supported and how many trees have been gifted.
Please feel free to tell anyone and everyone about this initiative and help improve Central Otago's biodiversity and support local community groups.
Click on the link to buy now.
Please support them when you can
About us
Find out about us, our area and why we are doing what we are doing.
Our nursery
We are eco sourcing seed from our dryland native species and growing them on. Find out more.
Get involved
Central Otago has very little in natural biodiversity areas. There are lots of ways you could help us turn this around.
Plants for Central Otago
Learn about our special species and what grows where.
What we are up to
Here is the latest on what we are up to. Find out more about our projects and community collaborations.
Places to go
Information and photos to help you discover our 'world of difference.'
A 'mostly' monthly email with local plant profile, upcoming events and what we have been doing amongst other things.
We rely on generous donations from the public, sponsorship and grants to ensure our nursery can eco source and propagate native plants along with providing a hub for community involvement and learning. The projects we are involved in will ultimately create areas of native bush providing homes for our native wildlife.
Would you or your business like to 'give back' and support work to improve our environment and natural heritage? Become a friend!
A big thank you to this year's supporters
contact us at haehaeata@haehaeata.org.nz
