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 | 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 | 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.

Brooklyn Reserve Community Planting Day
2025-09-06 10:00 - 12:30 | Linden Place Reserve, Linden Place, Brooklyn

Community Hui: Understanding our rivers, strengthening our communities
2025-09-18 11:30 - 16:00 | Riverside Community and Cultural Centre, 289 Main Road, Lower Moutere
Join us for a collaborative hui exploring the Motueka River system—iwi connections, historical protection and management, current dynamics and health, and the resilience we need for the future. We’ll share insights on recent flood events, river behaviour, and begin the conversation around solutions for climate change and future flood resilience.
This event brings together iwi, scientists, engineers, and community voices to deepen understanding and strengthen our collective response to flooding, ecosystem health, and community wellbeing.

🕘 Session Highlights
🔹 Iwi perspectives on the Motueka River, catchment management, and the Water Conservation Order
🔹 River morphology, sediment, flood facts, and freshwater ecology
🔹 Resilience planning—wetlands, flood response, and community-led adaptation

🎤 Speakers Include
• Dayveen Stephens (Ngāti Tama, MCC Co-Chair)
• John Ellis (Contractor, TDC)
• Neil Deans (Ngāti Koata)
• Mike Harvey (River Geomorphologist)
• Trevor James (Principal Scientist, TDC)
• Alastair Clement (TDC Natural Hazards & Geomorphology)
• Seb Den Doncker (Stream & River Consultants)

☕ Lunch and refreshments provided
🤝 Expect kōrero panels, interactive group sessions, and space to share ideas and build connections
Everyone is welcome—especially community members from across the Motueka catchment. Let’s come together to listen, learn, and lead—ki uta ki tai.
📌 Spaces are limited.
Register here, including if you’d like to receive a recording of the event:
👉 https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/2ZJ3KL2

Brooklyn BOMB squad working bee
2025-10-25 10:00 - 11:30 | Corner of Mickell Road, Brooklyn
With spring growth kicking off, it will be easy to identify the active vines. The more vines and seedlings destroyed before summer flowering, the easier our task will be in the long term.
All welcome to join the effort!
Meet at corner of Mickell Road then we’ll tackle some tricky patches on West Bank Road.
If you’d like to come along, email brooklynoldmansbeardmustgo@gmail.com
A pic from the BOMB squad’s March working bee

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

Know and Grow: Native plant event
2025-10-30 09:30 - 15:00 | The Baton House, Baton Valley
A FREE Hands-on Native plant workshop in the Baton Valley

This is a great place to visit in its own right.

Thursday October 30th
or
Saturday November 1st
9.30am – 3pm.

· How to ID our native species
· Why are NZ native plants so special in world context?
· Understanding NZ native plant taxonomy and their names.
· Learn to evaluate the overall health of ecosystems including in response to pest damage
· Learn about apps and resources to consolidate your knowledge
· Visit a newly planted Totara forest.
· Enjoy a day out on the threshold of Kahurangi National Park in the beautiful upper Baton Valley

Who is it workshop for?

Anyone new to learning about native plants, and for those wanting to broaden existing knowledge. This is a group learning environment where everyone is encouraged to bring and share what they know. Meet with other locals keen on native biodiversity.
Wayne moved to Aotearoa New Zealand in 2001 and quickly developed a deep passion for its unique biodiversity. He established his business, Indigenous Landscape, working in the community conservation space alongside local groups, iwi, and landowners to help achieve their conservation goals.

Through this work, Wayne has built a broad understanding of coastal and forest ecology and the challenges of caring for these environments. A self-confessed native plant geek, he has particular expertise in native forest establishment.
Wayne has provided services to councils and the DOC, and has held roles with organisations including the QEII National Trust, Whakatāne Kiwi Trust, Trees That Count, and he managed a landscape-scale project aimed at reconnecting isolated populations of North Island kōkako in the Bay of Plenty.
Wayne is also a Trustee of Tāne’s Tree Trust, a charity dedicated to advocating for and promoting the use of indigenous tree species across Aotearoa.

Hosted by
The Baton Valley Trust www.thebatonhouse.nz
Top of Baton Valley.
Supported by
NZ Landcare Trust
Motueka Catchment Collective

Bring your own lunch and drinks.

Haycocks Bush Old Mans Beard working bee
2025-11-16 09:30 - 13:00 | 2094 Motueka River West Bank Road, 2094 Motueka River West Bank Road, New Zealand
Bruce Stare, a key member of the Pest Management Group
Join the Pest Management Group for another working bee to tackle Old Man’s Beard in the beautiful Haycocks Bush.
Let’s work together to continue along Haycocks Bush, removing Old Man’s Beard vines using the cut and paste method. So much good work has been done already. The floods damaged the road and flowed through the bush, but the weeding work done so far has not been undone!
We would love to have you help out.
Refreshments provided. Wear sturdy shoes and gardening clothes.
All equipment and training provided.
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.

Whenua Iti native plant potting up event
2025-12-18 16:00 - 19:00 | Whenua Iti Outdoors, 475 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/RLKTMVK

Brooklyn BOMB squad working bee
2025-12-18 16:30 - 17:30 | Linden Place Reserve, Brooklyn
There will be another short weeding session this Thursday 18th December from 4.30pm – 5.30pm at the planting area through from Linden Reserve.

Please feel free to come along – even 30 minutes gets a few plants cleared.

Bring your gardening gloves, a weedwhacker if you have one, and some secateurs to chop off the willow sprouts.

If you’d like to come along, email brooklynoldmansbeardmustgo@gmail.com
A pic from the BOMB squad’s March working bee

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

Haycocks Bush Old Mans Beard working bee
2026-03-15 09:30 - 13:00 | 2094 Motueka River West Bank Road, 2094 Motueka River West Bank Road, New Zealand
Bruce Stare, a key member of the Pest Management Group
Join the Pest Management Group for the first working bee of 2026 to tackle Old Man’s Beard in the beautiful Haycocks Bush.
Let’s work together to continue along Haycocks Bush, removing Old Man’s Beard vines using the cut and paste method. So much good work has been done already. The floods damaged the road and flowed through the bush, but the weeding work done so far has not been undone!
We would love to have you help out.
Refreshments provided. Wear sturdy shoes and gardening clothes.
All equipment and training provided.
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.

Gathering Native Seed
2026-03-21 10:00 - 13:00
For farmers, lifestyle block owners and anyone interested in native restoration.
Hear from Shannel Courtney, a highly respected botanist with decades of experience across the top of the South, on right‑tree/right‑place, eco‑sourcing, species ID, rare natives and collecting wild seedlings.
What you’ll do:

identify seeding plants in a remnant forest
Collect, process & sow native seed
Take home a tray you’ve sown yourself.

Register here or QR code: surveymonkey.com/r/Z23CJ5X

Growing a Forest that Lasts
2026-04-11 09:00 - 12:00 | 95 Kelling Road, Upper Moutere, 95 Kelling Road, Upper Moutere, New Zealand
For anyone starting a forest restoration project or already underway. Join us for a practical session to understand how a native forest develops over time and what supports long‑term success.
Hear from restoration specialist Wayne O’Keefe as we walk through a mature forest remnant and newer plantings with kaitiaki of Lancewood Villa, Fiona and Alastair. We’ll explore:

what success looks like in native forest restoration
how ecological succession works and factors shaping forest development
the role of shade in restoration plantings
when intervention may be needed, including creating lightwells and choosing appropriate species

Register here or QR code: surveymonkey.com/r/Z23CJ5X
