Winter planting days

Winter planting days

It’s planting season again! We’d love you to join us at 111 Bethells Road to plant some new trees and care for the ones we’ve planted earlier. With the wettest summer and autumn on record, we do recommend gumboots – a bit of splashing around in...
Seeds away!

Seeds away!

Seeds away! One of our nursery volunteers loves to grow plants and was wondering how to regrow the native plants and trees on the many slips in the Waitakere River valley. Usually those barren sites get colonized by weeds before the native trees can take hold....
Education and inspiration

Education and inspiration

Of course our main aims at Matuku Link are protection of all our native flora and fauna, through best practice pest control (thank you trappers, baiters, weeders and sprayers!) and restoration of our wetland with our eco-sourced plants grown in our nursery (thank you...
The Tuesday Team

The Tuesday Team

If you’ve got some time on Tuesday mornings, are interested in helping out and love good company and home baking, join our Tuesday Team! What started with a couple of people looking after the plants in our on-site nursery has evolved into several different...
Bug hunt with experts!

Bug hunt with experts!

Evening Entomology Excursion – A Bug Hunt! Saturday 18 March, 7pm-10pm, $5 – booking required: www.matukulink.org.nz/shop/product/bughunt What bugs hide in our bush? Professional entomologists from Auckland Museum and Auckland University will help you...
Summer Search and Rescue

Summer Search and Rescue

No swimming skills required for our Search and Rescue missions! And just gumboots for our planting days… We’re are asking you to help us find our plants, identified by a white stick in a sea of weeds. And then use a shark (flax knife) to release them from...