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...
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...
Jobs4Nature

Jobs4Nature

It was the silver lining to the covid cloud: receiving Jobs4Nature funding to be able to employ people to help us at Matuku Link. From November 2020 to December 2022 we have had Nic, Christine, Stephen, Stephanie, Gillian, Devon, Jeff, Denis and myself employed for...
Cancelled Wetland Festival

Cancelled Wetland Festival

I’m writing this with the sound of large helicopters evacuating people from Muriwai, and in the knowledge half of our Te Henga community residents don’t have power, internet or water – hang in there, our thoughts are with you! Here at Matuku Link our little wetland...
Walk Open Times

Walk Open Times

With Minister Poto Williams opening our bridge and accessible walkway last week, we can now invite people to test it out. It is NOT a concrete, flat path though! It is part boardwalk and part gravel, which might not suit all wheels. As we are a tiny team, we’re...