Ngai Tahu visit

Ngai Tahu visit

When Johnathan Sargisson contacted us to see if he could visit Matuku Link with his group of tamariki from Ngai Tahu, as part of their Taiao Mokihi Wananga – mokihi (reed raft) building workshop, of course we said yes! Great to hear about groups who inspire...
Project K visiting

Project K visiting

What do a flooding, a rahui and tiny Carex plants have in common? All of them were the reason the yearly Project K groups (through the Graeme Dingle Foundation) came to help out Matuku Link. At Karanga Camp, Annalily gave a presentation about how our work at Ark in...
Floods

Floods

The floods and storms of February, March and April this year were severe: with 180.000 houses without power in March, let’s hope it is the “30 year storm” and not a regular event. For us at Matuku Link we were ‘only’ without power for...
Our Working Bees

Our Working Bees

Our volunteers seem to like our working bees, the shared lunch or the chance to walk around bare chested: whatever it is, you can join us! We usually try to see an eel, or some of our resident pateke might come and say hello. Tui song and flittering visits from our...
Love our Working Bees

Love our Working Bees

Our volunteers seem to like our working bees (or the donated Nice Blocks ice creams, or the shared lunch): almost two dozen showed up to help us with cleaning up after the storm, clearing the grass from the plants, constructing the nursery and many more tasks. The...
Thank you volunteers!

Thank you volunteers!

The volunteers from Sustainable Coastlines came out for a second time! We had a variety of tasks they were happy to attack: relocate some plants, to replace the few which didn’t survive the drought, dig a drain for the barn, clear out the shed & recycle the...