Planting Season 2024 Complete
This year Kaipātiki Project hosted seven community planting days across five local reserves.
The 3250 native plants that we had set aside for the planting season were all grown in our native plant nursery, nurtured by the caring hands of our dedicated volunteers. Now, with the help of hundreds more volunteers, these plants have set their roots in our local ngahere.
Acknowledgements:
We would like to say thank you to the organisations and businesses that funded our community planting days and made them possible:
Auckland Council, Kaipātiki Local Board, Foundation North, Glasgow Contractors, and The Stout Trust by Perpetual Guardian, we thank you all for your ongoing support!
A special and heartfelt thanks to our supporters who bought trees through our gift-a-tree service, to all the volunteers and staff who helped with planting, and to the dedicated volunteer team at our nursery who raised these plants from seed! Ma tini ma mano ka rapa te whai | Many hands make light work.
These plants will help build soil, reduce erosion, stabilise coastal and stream edges, provide habitat to local wildlife, beautify the community, and capture carbon from our atmosphere. All of this contributing to at least 5 of the 17 UN Sustainable Development Goals:
Did you enjoy being part of this year's planting season?
We invite you to stay on the journey with us.
The season ends and a new one begins: Now we must nurture the young plants through their first, most vulnerable year in the wild, and we must raise more seeds in our nursery to plant out next season. There is still important mahi to do and if you'd like to help us, you can start by clicking one of the buttons above.