This month we’re meeting in Dunsandel for coffee. Come along for an opportunity to trade, share information and meet our members!
Please let me know if you would like to join us:
Come along and help us restore and maintain the Mahoe Native Reserve in Lincoln.
Working bees are the first Sunday of every month from 2.00 pm.
Entry to the Reserve is on Boundary Road, Lincoln (opposite the High School).
03 4230445
mahoereserve@gmail.com
A workshop for beginners. We will cover the basic techniques of tree selection, training, pruning, and dealing with common pests.
A gold coin donation to support the activities of the Gardens will be appreciated.
021 074 3905
ruth.wood@xtra.co.nz
Come and see us for trapping advice and free trap hire.
The trap library will lend you the right type of predator control device to remove problematic pests like rats, hedgehogs, possums and stoats. We can also advise you on bait and the best location for your trap.
The aim is to remove these predators so the birds and plants can flourish.
The Selwyn Trap Library will open on the last Saturday of every month at the Lincoln Farmers & Craft Market.
Registration is not required, just come along.
03 423 0445
selwyntraplibrary@gmail.com
The exhibition, held at Te Ara Ātea, showcased all entries to the 2023 Selwyn High Schools’ Waste Art Competition. The exhibits were on display over a weekend in August 2023. Our thanks go to the staff of Te Ara Atea for their excellent hosting.
This exciting and enjoyable competition, first launched in 2021, is open to all rangatahi from year 7 to 13, not just those attending high school. The event runs biennially, so keep an eye out for the competition in 2025. The 2021 competition’s overall winner was titled “From Bags to Riches” – a dress crafted from repurposed feed bags and bailing twine. Other notable works included an R2D2 sculpture constructed from a used gas cylinder and various pieces incorporating materials destined for landfills. All entries exhibited remarkable creativity and were deservedly recognised with prizes.
The 2023 exhibition maintained the high standard set by its predecessor, presenting the judges with the challenging task of determining category and overall winners, as well as merit award recipients.
Whakamihi to all the artists for their mahi and originality.
2023 Winners:
Overall Winner: Grace Anongngos and Ingrid Aquino for their entry “The Forest Station.”
High School Winner: Kathryn McKenzie’s entry “Wastey the Hedgehog.”
Intermediate Winner: Lachie Smolenski with “Reined In.”
Merit Award Recipients:
Silvia Hector
Kathryn McKenzie
Josh Aubrey
Bharya Malhotka
Susanna Tully
Sanura Lokuliyanage
If you missed the recent presentation by Wendy Kentjens on fungi, here are a few tips from the well attended workshop that took place in April. While we have useful fungi such as mushrooms and yeasts, Wendy devoted most of her talk to dealing with problem fungi.
Here are the suggested steps:
Types of problem fungi frequently encountered by gardeners include powdery mildew (grapes and fruit trees), rust, anthracene (tomatoes) and botrytis rot (strawberries and grapes).
Ngā mihi nui Wendy.
021 074 3905
If you missed this year’s Kim Hill Hot Topic: “PLASTIC – How Do We Live With It” you can now watch it on YouTube. Thanks to Lincoln High School for filming the event where Kim Hill leads a panel of experts to delve into the issues surrounding plastic usage. Once the panel deliberated their views, the audience was invited to question panel members. The panellists discuss all issues relating to how essential plastic might be, our ability to reduce consumption, and our means of recycling the plastic we use.
Click to find out more about this years panellists.
On Sunday 28 April, we held a thoroughly enjoyable and hopefully, informative and educational, Mini Bioblitz at the Mahoe Reserve. The weather cooperated and over 60 people of all ages searched the trails of the reserve identifying the flora and fauna and registering their findings on iNaturalist as part of the City to Nature Challenge.
At the Mahoe Blitz a total of 194 observations were uploaded to iNaturalist made up of 108 species. These formed part of the City to Nature Challenge Ōtautahi/Christchurch Project that recorded over 20,000 observations during the challenge!
Very grateful thanks to Mark and Hamish – Mark from Canterbury Museum who at short notice explained to everyone what the challenge involved and provided the various containers, nets etc. which proved to be essential. Hamish from Manaaki Whenua – Landcare Research was on hand to identify the numerous plant types in the reserve.
Lincoln University student volunteers were kept very busy all afternoon identifying and helping people with the technology – there is no doubt that the various processes could not have run so smoothly without them and everyone had such an enjoyable experience. Thanks also to our own volunteers who set up and kept everyone engaged and happy.
Kia ora rawa atu!
The success of the event was such that we have undertaken to run another in spring as various plants flower and we will give some emphasis to these as well as the other exciting life forms to be found.
Come along and help us restore and maintain the Mahoe Native Reserve in Lincoln.
Working bees are the first Sunday of every month from 2.00 pm.
Entry to the Reserve is on Boundary Road, Lincoln (opposite the High School).
03 4230445
mahoereserve@gmail.com
Into Film? Passionate about the Environment? We challenge you to Focus for Future!
Make a short film (under 5 minutes) about our Environment or highlighting a specific environmental issue you are passionate about. Get creative and send us your film by 5pm, Tuesday 27th August 2024.
The competition is open to all, and you are encouraged to be as creative as you like, using any combination of live-action video, animation, graphics or slides to carry your environmental message.
There will be an Awards Ceremony & Film Screening in September 2024 (date TBA) at Te Ara Atea. Top films will be awarded prizes in multiple categories.
+64 3 423 0445
projectmanagerlet@gmail.com
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