This online session is a great opportunity to learn, connect and be inspired about growing your own natives at home. You'll hear from 6 keen people from the Motueka and Moutere catchments as they share their home nursery experiences. To register - https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/VS8SGWL

The purpose of this community workshop is to build understanding of flood risk and to identify practical ways that different parts of the community can act and adapt to ensure the whole community is safe from the impacts of future flooding and severe wet weather. Join us for a community...

  Bruce Stare, a key member of the Pest Management Group Join the Pest Management Group for the third 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...

The Motueka Catchment Collective will be at the Motueka Sunday Market to celebrate Conservation Week! We will be focusing on Pest Control to support our native birds & wildlife with: hands on workshops, trap pickups & bookings, free refills of cut-n-paste, expert question time, spot prizes And lots more. If...

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...

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...

  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...

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...

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...

  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...

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? ·...

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...

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....

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....

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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! [caption id="attachment_6691"...

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...