Kia ora and welcome to the Trees for Survival March Media Share, featuring the latest news from our team, to share with your team.
Seeing Potential….Trees for Survival facilitators are out and about meeting landowners and assessing potential planting sites. Where some may see a bare paddock or hillside, TfS facilitators see potential for an excellent day’s planting and future forest. As well as the potential of the planting site, facilitators are also checking that the school bus will make it up the drive and the students can access the site safely. Some landowners will host a single planting day with other landowners hosting a school over successive years, together expanding an area of restoration planting. These fantastic relationships are about goodwill; landowners supporting schools to undertake planting work that benefits everybody.
Same but different… With the excitement of having 3 new South Island school clusters up and running, comes the learning curves presented by different conditions in Southland. While schools in Mohua/Tasman and Canterbury will grow and plant at similar times to schools in the North Island, the cooler climate in Southland means some different plant species, different irrigation requirements and revised timeline for Trees for Survival activities. TfS are working closely with the schools, local plant nurseries and landowners to ensure that with a few modifications, the same great programme will run successfully in our most southerly region. |
