Trees for Hawke's Bay Nursery news
With planting time nearly upon us, now is the time to plan and order your plants for autumn and winter planting.
Trees for Hawke's Bay Nursery is well stocked with a great selection of healthy native trees and plants to support all your requirements .
Restoration Projects, Beautification, School projects, Community projects, Marae planting, Farm Forestry, and plenty for the home gardener as well.
Open: Friday and Monday from 9 - 3pm and Saturday 10 - 3pm
P 06 875 0050
trees4hb@shbt.org.nz
www.shbt.org.nz
Volunteers
Calling all tree lovin' volunteers
*Trees for Hawke's Bay Native Nursery* are seeking more volunteers,
to join the already great crew of people coming to the nursery.
The vision is to extend and grow in volunteer numbers for further projects
planned at the nursery and in the community.
Join us and learn basic nursery, eco sourcing and propagation skills.
Volunteer Days: Friday and Monday from 9am
Your support needed for continued funding for Enviroschools programme in Hawke's Bay
Hawke's Bay Regional Council voted last week to decline ongoing financial support to the Enviro Schools programme in Hawke's Bay. The Enviro Schools programme is a NZ wide programme that aims to develop a generation of innovative and motivated young people to instinctively think and act sustainably.
To quote Councillor Liz Remmerswal - (Hastings)
"Council seems to have forgotten that is it expected to be proactive in sustaining a healthy environment, no matter what cutbacks central government may make"
"Now, more than ever, young people need the skills to cope as they struggle to deal with the environmental problems that we are handing down to them," she says.
The call to action for all parents, children and teachers of the schools participating and those that were hoping to be able to join the programme in the future is to make a simple submission to the Hawke's Bay Regional Council Annual Plan process. The draft of the Annual Plan will be available on the 3rd April with submissions to the Annual Plan closing on 10th May 2010.
Visit Hawke's Bay Regional Council website for details on the Annual Plan process click here
A simple submission template will be posted on our website shortly after the 3rd April which you will be able to use to help you with the submission process.
For more details on Enviroschools programme click here
Great Workshops - check out our website for more details - www.shbt.org.nz
We have a great line up of workshops available with great diverse topics all designed to help you to save money and be more sustainable. Workshops coming up this month include Seed Saving, Getting started in the vegie garden, Keeping Chickens in the City, Backyard Organics, Natural Fertilisers, pest control and companion planting,Introduction to Holistic Beekeeping with many more workshops to come...
Have a browse around our great website www.shbt.org.nz and find out more detaills or give us a call we love hearing from you!
Sale at the Environment Centre continues through March as well !
Do you want to start the year being more Sus'd (www.susd.org.nz) than last year and have been thinking of purchasing a worm farm or a bokashi system and maybe starting your own home garden. Come in to the Environment Centre and check out our great special offers through the whole of March 2010.
10% discount on all Worm Farms, Bokashi systems and Square Metre Gardens - plus if you purchase a worm farm from us over this month you will get a 50% discount on your worms - what could be better than that
Phone - 06 870 4942