Brooklyn Stream Community Planting Project - Working Bee
2024-10-05
Come and be part of this community venture
There is a small stretch of land running beside the Brooklyn Stream from Linden Place Reserve. At present, this area is overrun by invasive weeds and willows.
With the approval of landowners Vaila Orchards, the Brooklyn Old Man’s Beard group (aka the BOMB squad) has gained funding to get the scrub commercially cleared for a native planting project.
This project will extend the native plantings in Linden Reserve and in time, we hope this will add to the health of the Brooklyn Stream while enhancing the general well-being of this neighbourhood.
If you, or someone you know, would like to work alongside other like-minded locals on this project, come to our planning meeting on Monday 7th October at 7pm.
Please email Kim at brooklynoldmansbeardmustgo@gmail.com
or phone/text 027 288 2134 for the meeting details
This is a small project that will rely on occasional community involvement. If you have some spare time, expertise or knowledge, or you just want to join a Brooklyn environmental group, then this might be the group for you!
Brooklyn has a growing Old Man’s Beard problem but a bunch of locals are tackling it head on!
A group of Brooklyn locals come together for monthly working bees to tackle the Old Man’s Beard vine in our immediate area and we’re looking for more volunteers who can donate a small amount of time to reducing the spread of this pest plant. If nothing else, it’s a great way to get to know the neighbours!
Since August 2023 we’ve chopped and poisoned OMB between the Brooklyn School and the Brooklyn Reserve and this year we’ve moved onto the West Bank Road. We’ve also tackled a couple of patches further up the Brooklyn Valley. Hopefully you’ve noticed the difference.
Some of the Brooklyn Old Man’s Beard group, aka the BOMB Squad!
Working bees are usually held once a month on Saturdays from 10am-12noon
Participation is simple – we provide the gear and guidance for a two hour session, and there’s a friendly bunch of people to work alongside! We finish at noon with a quick roadside cuppa, cake and chat.
We provide gloves, saws, poison and secateurs, but you are welcome to use your own equipment. Loppers are especially useful and we encourage people to bring them along.
Next working bee is scheduled for Saturday 5th October
(weather dependent)
If you are interested in being part of this project please email us at brooklynoldmansbeardmustgo@gmail.com
We’ll add you to the mailing list and provide you with details of future working bees

Brooklyn Stream Community Planting Project - Meeting
2024-10-07 10:00 - 13:00 UTC

Catchment Quiz night
2024-10-12 18:00 - 20:30 (Pacific/Auckland) | Riverside Cafe, Riverside Community, 289 Main Road Lower Moutere, Upper Moutere 7175, Tasman
MCC and the Moutere catchment would like to invite you to a quiz night to have fun, celebrate and learn about our catchments.
Enter your team (tables of around 6 – 8 people) in our quiz. You’ll be asked questions about the Motueka and Moutere catchments, along with general knowledge questions. If you don’t have a team, please just register yourself as an individual and we’ll endeavour to place you in a team.
The MCC wishes to support community groups getting water quality equipment for SHMAK & eDNA testing as community freshwater monitoring is a priority in the catchment. A $5 entry koha per adult would be appreciated (children for free) to contribute to this. There will be raffles with great prizes donated by local businesses up for grabs as part of this fundraising too, so bring some cash. All tables will be provided with a platter of food to nibble on.
Please enter your registration at this link – https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/WMN9W2M

Workshop for small forest owners
2024-11-06 18:00 - 21:00 UTC | 75 Thorp Orinoco Road, 75 Thorp Orinoco Road, Ngātīmoti, 7196

The 2nd BIG Motueka Valley community weeding event
2024-11-10 10:00 - 13:00 UTC | Opposite Haycocks Bush, Opposite Haycocks Bush, Motueka River West Bank Road (parking and assembly details to be confirmed).
MCC invites you to come along to our second BIG community weeding event to clear Old Man’s Beard vines climbing up the large native trees from a site in the Motueka Valley next to Haycocks Bush. Last time the community managed to clear a length of 700 metres. Let’s see if we can top that!
These second community events are part of a wider MCC project to control weeds in this riparian area. It needs a BIG effort over the next year and this event will carry on the good work started at our last event.
MCC will provide some tools and equipment. However if you have your own secateurs, gloves and/or folding saw bring them along. Come in working clothes (long sleeves and pants) appropriate for the weather, and be prepared to get stuck in! You’ll be divided into working groups with an experienced leader. Experts will be there to explain what needs to be done and how to do the mahi.
There’ll be some drinks and cookies afterwards to thank you for your efforts!
This event is part of a larger weeding project supported by MCC along the Motueka River West Bank riparian strip between the Graham River confluence and working upstream to the Hoods QEII block. This will involve ongoing weeding sessions between July 2024 and July 2026 to control weeds in this area. Some of this weeding will be done by community weeding croups, and some by contractors.
We hope this community event will lead to increased community support for existing weeding groups in the valley who have an ongoing job to continue weeding in this area. We really need your support!
Please register here – https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/VFXB5LL

The weeding site

Volunteers hard at work at MCC’s 1st weeding event

MCC talking about trapping at the Tapawera Market
2024-11-24 09:00 - 12:00 UTC | Tapawera 4 Square
To register your interest to become a backyard trapper, fill in this form – https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/GFKLVYV

Tasman District Council (TDC) Lower Motueka Catchment Rivercare meeting
2024-11-26 16:00 - 19:00 UTC
Lower Motueka Catchment
Includes the Lower Motueka, Riuwaka, Brooklyn and Moutere Rivers; Little Sydney, Hamiltons and Scotts Drains; Pauley Creek, and the Company Ditches
Tuesday 26 November 2024, 4:00 pm – Te Noninga Kumu Motueka Library, Community Meeting Room
See the following taken from the TDC website about their upcoming rivercare meetings. MCC would like to encourage catchment residents to attend these. Here’s TDC’s website link – https://www.tasman.govt.nz/my-council/about-us/media-centre/news-and-notices/tasmans-rivercare-meetings-return-for-2024/ :
Tasman District Council is restarting its annual Rivercare meetings throughout the District.
All interested members of the public are invited to attend their local meeting to hear information about river works in the past year, discuss river management issues in your area, and help plan for work to be done in 2025.
Topics will include flood protection, erosion control, and maintenance of the riparian margin which may be significant to the area you live.
If you are planning to attend one of these meetings and have a specific question or topic you would like discussed, please send an email to rivercare@tasman.govt.nz noting the question and issue of interest and the meeting you plan to attend.

Tasman District Council Dove Rivercare meeting
2024-11-28 19:00 - 20:00 UTC | Dovedale Hall
Dove River
Thursday 28 November 2024, 7:00 pm – Dovedale Hall
See the following taken from the TDC website about their upcoming rivercare meetings. MCC would like to encourage catchment residents to attend these. Here’s TDC’s website link – https://www.tasman.govt.nz/my-council/about-us/media-centre/news-and-notices/tasmans-rivercare-meetings-return-for-2024/ :
Tasman District Council is restarting its annual Rivercare meetings throughout the District.
All interested members of the public are invited to attend their local meeting to hear information about river works in the past year, discuss river management issues in your area, and help plan for work to be done in 2025.
Topics will include flood protection, erosion control, and maintenance of the riparian margin which may be significant to the area you live.
If you are planning to attend one of these meetings and have a specific question or topic you would like discussed, please send an email to rivercare@tasman.govt.nz noting the question and issue of interest and the meeting you plan to attend.

Tasman District Council Upper Motueka Rivercare meeting
2024-12-02 19:00 - 20:00 UTC | Tapawera Community Rooms
Upper Motueka Catchment
Includes the Upper Motueka, Motupiko, Tadmor and Sherry Rivers
Monday 2 December 2024, 7:00 pm – Tapawera Community Rooms
See the following taken from the TDC website about their upcoming rivercare meetings. MCC would like to encourage catchment residents to attend these. Here’s TDC’s website link – https://www.tasman.govt.nz/my-council/about-us/media-centre/news-and-notices/tasmans-rivercare-meetings-return-for-2024/ :
Tasman District Council is restarting its annual Rivercare meetings throughout the District.
All interested members of the public are invited to attend their local meeting to hear information about river works in the past year, discuss river management issues in your area, and help plan for work to be done in 2025.
Topics will include flood protection, erosion control, and maintenance of the riparian margin which may be significant to the area you live.
If you are planning to attend one of these meetings and have a specific question or topic you would like discussed, please send an email to rivercare@tasman.govt.nz noting the question and issue of interest and the meeting you plan to attend.

Upper Moutere School native plant potting up event
2024-12-04 09:00 - 13:00 UTC | Upper Moutere School, Moutere Highway, Upper Moutere
Community nurseries in Motueka and Moutere catchments have been growing first colonising native seedlings for potting up and growing on for their catchment groups.
This is the time of year some of the community nurseries need a little help to finish potting up seedlings to fill their nurseries.
At this event you will pot up seedlings into root trainers with students and parents to fill the nursery and these plants will be planted out by students in the Moutere catchment when they’re big enough. Morning tea provided.
Please bring empty root trainers if you have them.
Please note that there are two time slots – 9.30 – 11am and 11.30 – 1pm.
Registrations are required. Please go here to fill in your details – https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/8L55JFM

Brooklyn BOMB squad working bee
2024-12-07 10:00 - 12:00 UTC
The next BOMB Squad working bee is on Saturday 7th December from 10am – 12noon. After that, we’ll take a break until late February.
If you’re interested in coming along, contact BOMB squad leader Kim Burridge on 027 288 2134.
Here are some pics from other working bees as well as our group at the MCC Quiz night. We have lots of fun as well as doing the hard work!
The crew still smiling after two hours of solid slog! Behind us is our next target area

Some of the Brooklyn Old Man’s Beard group, aka the BOMB Squad!

Motueka native plant potting up / pricking out event
2024-12-09 09:30 - 11:00 UTC | Motueka (venue TBC)
Community nurseries in the Motueka and Moutere catchments have been growing first colonising native seedlings for potting up / pricking out and growing on for their catchment groups.
This is the time of year some of the community nurseries need a little help to finish potting up seedlings to fill their nurseries, or have some excess seedlings they are able to give away.

At this event next Monday 9th December bewteen 9.30am and 11am, you’ll learn how to grow your own native plants, pot up / prick out plants into root trainers to take home to grow on. Please bring empty root trainers if you have them. There is a limit of 20 people. You will be notified of the location after registering, but it is in central Motueka.

Please register here – https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/8L55JFM.

The late Roger Gaskell giving advice at last year’s potting up event

Whenua Iti native plant potting up event
2024-12-11 17:30 - 19:30 UTC | Whenua Iti Outdoors, 375 Main Road, Lower Moutere
Community nurseries in the Motueka and Moutere catchments have been growing first colonising native seedlings for potting up and growing on for their catchment groups.
This is the time of year some of the community nurseries need a little help to finish potting up seedlings to fill their nurseries.
At this event you will help add to the plants already potted up by students and these will be planted out by students on landowners properties once they’re big enough.
Please note there may be some 1 – 5cm seedlings leftover that we can give away before Christmas for people to take home, pot up themselves using their own containers and potting mix. There is an opportunity to register an interest in that as well in below survey.
To register for these events – https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/8L55JFM

BOMB squad working bee
2025-02-15 09:30 - 11:30 UTC | Linden Place Reserve, Linden Place, Brooklyn
Linden Place Reserve planting site
When: Saturday 15 February, 9am – 11am
Where: meeting at the Linden Place Reserve, located at the end of Linden Place, off Mickell Rd, Brooklyn.
Details: Kim will send details a week before including what tools to bring.
The plan for 2025 is to continue preparing the site, with the focus on weed control and creating a permanent track during the first six months. Call Kim Burridge on 027 288 2134 or email brooklynoldmansbeardmustgo@gmail.com if you’re interested in helping out. This is a Brooklyn community project, but we welcome volunteers from anywhere.

Tasman Bay Guardians FUN-draising event!
2025-02-20 18:30 - 23:00 UTC | Playhouse Theatre, 171 Westdale Road, Tasman 7081
Come to the Playhouse Theatre on February 20th from 6.30pm until 11pm to hear some awesome DJ’s and support the ongoing work of Tasman Bay Guardians in our catchment. The event is $30. Expect an electrifying lineup of funky breaks, garage, ragga vibes, jungle rhythms, and drum and bass bangers.

Here’s the event link on facebook with more details – https://www.facebook.com/events/964854555848369/
It should be a fun night and it would be great to support our very own Tasman Bay Guardians who do so much great work in our catchment. All ticket sales go directly to Tasman Bay Guardians, supporting their vital work in marine and freshwater conservation, education, and community collaboration.

Protect your land and water: Sediment control solutions every landowner needs to know!
2025-02-21 10:00 - 13:30 UTC | Tapawera Rugby Clubrooms, Main Road, Tapawera
When: Friday, 21 February, 10am – 1:30 pm
Where: Tapawera Rugby Club Room, Main Road, Tapawera
Do you have areas of your land that are prone to erosion? Would you like to discuss and learn practical techniques and methods to reduce soil loss from your farm, lifestyle property, or forestry block?
Motueka Catchment Collective would like to invite you to this event aimed at helping answer key questions landowners have about ensuring effective control of sediment on their rural property. We have a line-up of excellent speakers who will talk you through some of these key questions, giving great examples and case studies to help make their advice as practical as possible.

Questions that will be addressed are:

Why is sediment control important in the Motueka catchment?

What are some key research findings that have emerged regarding sediment in the Motueka Catchment?

What are the current regulations regarding sediment and what tools are available to the community to manage sediment issues?

How is forestry addressing sediment concerns and what are the most commonly used mitigation practices?

How is the agricultural sector addressing sediment issues and what are the most common and effective mitigation practices?

Speakers include:

Dr. Les Basher, NZ Landcare Research

Dr. Andrew Swales, Principal Scientist – Coastal and Estuarine Physical Processes, Programme Leader – NIWA

Dr Charlotte Šunde, Policy Planner, Natural Resources – Tasman District Council

Mike Fahey – Taylors Contracting

Dr. Tom Mackay – Director – Verdantia Research

Once speakers have given their presentations, there will be an opportunity for the audience to ask questions of a wider panel of speakers and other experts. Such as:

Trevor James – Principal Scientist Freshwater & Estuarine Ecology – Tasman District Council

Dan Montgomery – Technical/Environmental Forester – Tasman Pines

Sean Hardly – Marine Biologist – NIWA

Light lunch will be provided. The event is free, courtesy of MCC.
Don’t miss this important event that will give you practical advice and tools at a property level about reducing erosion and managing sediment loss.
Register now here –https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/CYLWZSC

MCC BIG March weeding event
2025-03-16 09:30 - 13:00 UTC | Haycocks Bush, Motueka River West Bank Road, 2094 Motueka River West Bank Road, New Zealand
Heather Lindsay, local who helped at MCC’s 2nd event

Members of Fish and Game helping clear OMB

Bruce Stare, a key member of the Pest Management Group

The Motueka Catchment Collective’s Pest Management Group are continuing their fight against Old Mans Beard which is taking over in the Motueka Valley & needs to be stopped! This is all the more urgent at the moment as there was a huge flowering this year leaving many seeds ready to fly.
The MCC will be holding 2 Big Weeding Events on Sundays 16 March & 13 April where locals & volunteers will be picking up their secateurs & bottles of gel weedkiller to continue their work removing this pest from native trees at Haycocks Bush, 2094 Motueka River Westbank Road.
You are invited to come along and join in from 9.30am. All tools & a picnic lunch will be provided.
Anyone attending the working bee will receive a free bottle of weed control gel to take home & use on their own properties.
Trapping animal pests like rats, possums, stoats & controlling plant pests which smother the trees has a direct effect on the health of our native birds, bush & river.
Come & join the Motueka Catchment Collective in making a difference to our taonga species and our beautiful awa – be a part of the change you wish to see!
If you don’t fancy doing the actual weeding work but would like to volunteer any other skills/time, they’d love to hear from you. Contact support@motuekacatchment.co.nz for information and to register for these events.

BOMB squad April working bee
2025-04-05 09:30 - 11:30 UTC | Blue Gum Corner
A pic from the BOMB squad’s March working bee
When: Saturday 5th April, 9:30am – 11:30am
Where: Meet at meet at Blue Gum corner
Our next Brooklyn Old Man’s Beard working bee is scheduled for this Saturday. People are concerned at the way OMB is steadily spreading around the Blue Gum corner area and we’re going to focus on this area until we’ve brought it under control.

As usual we’ll gather for a cup of tea/coffee and a spot of home baking at 11:30am. Bring your own drinks and I’ll bring something tasty to share!

We have gloves, secateurs, pruning saws and poison for everyone to use.

If you have loppers and/or your own tools and prefer to use them, please do.

Looking forward to seeing you, the more the merrier!!

MCC BIG April Old Man's Beard weeding event
2025-04-13 09:30 - 13:00 UTC | Haycocks Bush, Motueka River West Bank Road, 2094 Motueka River West Bank Road, New Zealand
The Pest Management Group invites you to the fourth BIG Motueka Valley April Community Weeding Bee to clear Old Man’s Beard vines from native vines from a site near Haycocks Bush. This is an iconic site next to the Motueka River and we need your help to restore it!
MCC are continuing their fight against Old Mans’ Beard which is taking over in the Motueka Valley & needs to be stopped! This is all the more urgent as there was a huge flowering this year leaving many seeds ready to fly.

Locals and volunteers will be picking up their secateurs & bottles of gel weedkiller to continue their work. All tools & a picnic lunch will be provided.

Where: 2094 Motueka River West Bank Road
When: Sunday 13th April, 9.30am – 1pm

There will be local experts present to offer weed killing information & training on Old Mans Beard & other common plant pests plus information on pest animal trapping with updates on baits to use, trapping strategy & getting registered with TrapNZ.

Come and join the MCC in making a difference to our taonga species and our beautiful awa – be a part of the change you wish to see! Register here – https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/77VXXV8
If you’d rather volunteer other skills and time than weeding, we’d love to hear from you too. Email support@motuekacatchment.co.nz.

Heather Lindsay removing OMB vines at MCC’s 2nd event

Members of Fish and Game helping at MCC’s 1st weeding event

Old Man’s Beard

Innovative farming solutions for people, place and planet
2025-04-17 09:30 - 15:30 UTC | Moutere Hills Community Centre, 1539 Moutere Highway, Lower Moutere, 7175, New Zealand
This forum is open to all but is targeted at farmers and rural land managers wanting to know how to put more money in their back pockets while looking after their land for future generations.
The forum is structured around a number of topics and there will be a mix of presentations, trade stands, and Q&A sessions. Presenters are a mix of government organisations, businesses offering innovative solutions, and farmers who’ve implemented some of these solutions on their farms. Topics include:

Data management tools
Smart Energy solutions
Farm plans and integrated farm planning
Emissions Trading Scheme possibilities
Pest Management

There will be breaks so attendees can walk around stands to hear more detailed information from trade stand holders about what they offer…. and of course food will be provided.
This event is free to attend, courtesy of the Motueka Catchment Collective and the Ministry of Primary Industries.

Register here – https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/QGBZ3X8

Brooklyn planting project working bee
2025-04-19 10:00 - 12:00 UTC | Linden Place Reserve, located at the end of Linden Place, off Mickell Rd, Brooklyn.
It’s time for another preparation session at our Brooklyn stream planting area. We will continue scraping out a rough path and chopping down more of the skinny willow saplings. The area is looking good and it’s easy to imagine how beautiful it will look in years to come!

Dean (left), Nick, Petreah at the planting site

Saturday 19th April (Easter weekend)
10am – 12 noon
Cuppa & catch up at noon

Meeting at the Linden Place Reserve, located at the end of Linden Place, off Mickell Rd, Brooklyn.

Growing native forests workshop
2025-05-09 09:30 - 12:30 UTC | Moutere Hills Community Centre, 1539 Moutere Highway, Lower Moutere, 7175, New Zealand
When: Friday 9 May, 9.30 – 12.30pm
Where: Moutere Hills Community Centre
This workshop will cover the basics of growing native forests, plant propagation and selection, and much more. This workshop is organised by Te Uru Rākau – New Zealand Forest Service to support sustainable native afforestation efforts.
See this link for more information and to register – https://www.canopy.govt.nz/events/2025/growing-native-forests-upper-moutere/

Motueka OMB group QEII weeding event
2025-05-29 08:00 - 17:00 UTC
The Motueka OMB Group, led by Bruce Stare, who is also a member of the Pest Management group of MCC, are holding an OMB weeding event in a significant piece of QEII covenanted bush on private land on Saturday July 27th. Bruce is still finalising details for the event, including the time. Watch this space for an update and more details!
It would be great to have a good number of people from the community along to this event. Managing OMB in native bush areas is priority for MCC, and is a real challenge in the catchment. If we focus our efforts on tackling OMB in significant native bush areas the task doesn’t seem so huge. It will also greatly help the trees and habitats in these areas if they’re not infested with OMB.

Fence masterclass: A guided tour with a fencing guru
2025-06-06 10:00 - 12:00 UTC | 15 Hurley Road, Motueka Valley
Learn how to get fencing right from fencing guru John Knoakes. Also learn about new fencing technologies from Ken McMiken from Gallagher.
The MCC would like to invite all rural landowners, residents, farmers and others interested in fencing to a guided tour around John Noakes’ farm to show you the various types of fencing to protect your environmental restoration work and native bush areas (including QEII lots), waterways, including riparian areas and wetlands, along with just general fencing tips for your rural property.
John Knoakes is a fencing contractor with tons of experience. He was recently awarded the “legends” award at the Annual Fencing Contractors Association of New Zealand industry awards.
The very knowledgeable and practical John Noakes will talk you through the pros and cons and must haves for different fencing functions, as well as gates. He’ll also give you a demonstration of all the equipment you’ll need, how to erect and operate electric fencing, and give you pointers around fencing maintenance.
Motueka catchment residents will also have the opportunity to apply for free fenceposts through Repost. MCC will be be requesting applications shortly.
To register, go here.
Here are some photos from last year’s MCC fencing event which was a great success.

Brooklyn Community planting day
2025-06-07 10:00 - 12:00 UTC | far corner of the Linden Place Reserve
Brooklyn Planting Project
The BOMB Squad has taken on a small native planting project on the banks of the Brooklyn Stream just past the Linden Reserve, in conjunction with Vaila Orchard. We’re currently preparing the site for planting in early spring and have a bit more work to do in removing willow saplings.

If you are a keen gardener with time on your hands or would like to know more about this project, please do get in touch as we definitely need more people involved!

Email us at brooklynoldmansbeardmustgo@gmail.com

Next Brooklyn Planting Project working bee is
Saturday 7th June
10am -12pm

We’ll be removing and poisoning more of the scraggly young willow trees, in preparation for August planting.
Meet at the far corner of the Linden Place Reserve

Bring saws (handsaw, chainsaw)

Cuppa and a muffin afterwards (bring your own drink)

There will be further dates for this project coming up too, so watch this space!

Kim,, Dean, Joe ,Nick

planting site

Dean, Nick, Petreah

Planting site

Brooklyn BOMB squad OMB working bee
2025-06-14 10:00 - 12:00 UTC | Blue Gum Corner
Brooklyn Old Man’s Beard Group aka The BOMB Squad

We’re looking for new volunteers!
We’re a very informal group that runs monthly working bees in the hope that we can eventually push Old Man’s Beard out of Brooklyn. We have a mailing list of 23 people, with anything between 3-10 people turning up to each session. We’re a friendly bunch of people who enjoy a chat and a laugh while wielding loppers and saws, and here is absolutely no pressure to attend every working bee. However, we are keen to increase our volunteer numbers, so please get in touch if you’d like to join our email list.
Email us at brooklynoldmansbeardmustgo@gmail.com

Next BOMB Squad working bee is
Saturday 14 June
10am -12pm (it doesn’t matter if you only come for an hour)
Meet at Blue Gum corner

Tools/gloves/poison/morning tea provided
We’ll be chopping and poisoning vines on the West Bank Road towards Brooklyn.
Let us know if you’re planning to attend.

MCC at the Motueka Sunday market
2025-06-15 08:00 - 13:00 UTC | Motueka Sunday Market
The Motueka Catchment Collective crew will be at the Motueka Sunday market on Sunday 15th June. We will have a stall with all sorts of things to talk to you about and show you. This will include:

Traps – rat traps, DOC200s and possum traps to disseminate to those community members who’ve ordered them. If you’re interested in getting traps, you can put your name down for our next round of trap construction. So far we’ve had 100 registrations, so jump on the band wagon and join in the trapping effort!
Plants – members of our Biodiversity and Restoration Thematic group will be there with some native plants from our community nurseries. You might have to do a few things to receive a free eco-sourced native plant to take home! Come find out!
River recreation spots – we plan to have a map showing our new picnic spots and the proposed spots that additional MCC picnic tables will go, as well as be able to talk to you about a few other initiatives that the River Access and Recreation Thematic group have underway, including signage.
Water quality – e may have some information about our community based freshwater monitoring, including showing you some of the bits of SHMAK kit, a Stream Health Monitoring Assessment Kit.

We might have a few other prizes and giveaways so come along and say hi!

Linden Place Reserve Community Planting Day
2025-08-02 10:00 - 12:30 UTC
Brooklyn Planting Project
The BOMB Squad has taken on a small native planting project on the banks of the Brooklyn Stream just past the Linden Reserve, in conjunction with Vaila Orchard. We’re currently preparing the site for planting in early spring and have a bit more work to do in removing willow saplings.

If you are a keen gardener with time on your hands or would like to know more about this project, please do get in touch as we definitely need more people involved!

We are having a community planting day:
Saturday 2 August, 10am – 12.30pm
Linden Place Reserve, Brooklyn.

All welcome, but please let us know if you’d like to come along by emailing:
brooklynoldmansbeardmustgo@gmail.com

MCC trap collection
2025-08-10 14:00 - 17:00 UTC | Ngatimoti Community Rooms
This Sunday 10 August from 2-5pm is another opportunity to collect the subsidised traps you ordered from MCC in May & June.
You will need to pay for your traps in advance:
DOC 200 (stoats) $50
Rat Trap $15
TASMAN ENVIRONMENTAL TRUST
03-1354-0519197-00
Use your SURNAME & the words MCC TRAP as your reference.
Once paid, please come to the Ngatimoti Community Rooms/Fire Station between 2-5pm on Sunday to collect your traps.
If you can’t remember which traps you ordered, email support@motuekacatchment.org.nz to find out.
A big Thank You to all the trappers in our area, lets get rid of those pesky pests!

Rapid Relief Team Tapawera event for farmers
2025-08-28 08:00 - 12:00 UTC | 160 Tadmor Valley Road, Tapawera
The Rapid Relief Team have their upcoming Farmers Community Connect event in Tapawera, on Thursday 28th August 2025 from 8am – 12pm. This event is to support flood affected farmers in the Tasman region, with donations of fencing materials. For more information about our past Farmers Community Connect events, visit: www.bit.ly/FCCnz.
At the Tapawera event, farmers will have access to:

Donated fencing packs including posts and wire
RRT’s FREE BBQ breakfast and lunch
Barista coffee
Local support services including health services, farm management advisory and veterinary support
Opportunity to connect with their local community

All farmers must register by Friday 22nd August to receive free fencing materials. To register, they can visit www.bit.ly/tapaweraFCC, or call 028 2550 0838.
We would love to have you help us spread the word about this event! You can share our posts on social media, print and share the attached flyer, or send out your own emails including the event details and registration link.
