by BFTAdmin | Sep 10, 2019 | News, Uncategorized
Come and pot a plant, plant a tree, rescue a reed or search for a scrub… it’s all part of our September Working Bee for Conservation Week! With the floods from last week, a lot of debris has been collected in the tops of our newly planted trees and shrubs:...
by BFTAdmin | Aug 25, 2019 | News
Mortgage free in 3 years, for a $2,040.000 property? The trustees of the Matuku Reserve Trust had it on their wish list, and their wish came true, with the help of many parties along the way. This is the story of an Auckland unicorn… The story starts over...
by admin | Aug 13, 2019 | News
None of our work could have been done without others supporting our vision. From the $5 donations on our Givalittle Campaign to the $450,000 from The Native Forest Restoration Trust to purchase the land, we couldn’t have done it without you. Contributions...
by BFTAdmin | Aug 4, 2019 | bird stories, News
… a thousand words? Even more in our case I image, as it is very hard to describe a leaf of a tree, a rare bird or the energy of a group of volunteers. That is why we are extremely blessed to have not one, not two but THREE semi-professional photographers in our...
by BFTAdmin | Aug 4, 2019 | Barn, News
Remember how we started when we got the keys to Matuku Link in January 2017? Every working bee was about rubbish, cleaning up and clearing out. A lot of the work focussed around the old, ‘well ventilated’ barn, with the vision to restore it and turn it...
by BFTAdmin | Aug 4, 2019 | bird stories, News
Planting has never been so easy…with the ground soft and muddy, it was more akin to ladling chocolate pudding than our usual sweat-inducing exercise trying to dig a hole! In some cases this did result in mud actually flowing into shoes and sneakers, creating...
by BFTAdmin | Jul 2, 2019 | groups, News
For the second year in a row, the team of Ricoh showed up en masse for the Big Green Day Out! Great to have such an enthusiastic team of people helping us to plant, weed and learn about the environment. The weeding was around the trees which were planted by Ricoh...
by BFTAdmin | Jun 18, 2019 | News
Despite the forecast, it only rained once… and with perfect timing, it came down at noon: a great excuse to pack up and have lunch. A very well deserved lunch it was, with all the tasks John had in mind for today, over and done with. Yeah! And even some tasks...
by BFTAdmin | Jun 11, 2019 | News
Winter Working Bees are usually all about water: rain from above, levels rising in the river, making the soil nice and muddy… a great time to do weeding (soft soil is so much easier to pull roots out of), planting, re-potting and with young ones (of all ages):...
by BFTAdmin | Jun 10, 2019 | groups, News
What a day!!! We couldn’t have asked for better weather or a more enthusiastic bunch of people last Sunday. A large group of Alsco employees and other supporters of the Million Metres project came out to Matuku Link for a family day to help us ‘search and...
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