Daniel and Ginny Williams.

Planting day 2020

This site shares a boundary with Lords Bush – one of the last remaining lowland beech podocarp forests on the Canterbury Plains.

Supported with multi-year funding from Central Plains Water Environmental Management Fund (EMF) Te Ara Kākāriki (TAK) began this Greendot restoration plan in 2020 with the planting of 2,000 seedlings as well as a volunteer planting day each year. The landowners have gone well beyond this planting another 6,000 seedlings with family and friends.

Impact.

Planting beside Lords Bush, a treasure trove of biodiversity, will help to protect this special remnant by creating a buffer between it and the harsh elements allowing species that require the dark sheltered conditions found deep in the forest centre to thrive.

Planting day 2024

Corde returned to plant with Te Ara Kākāriki for a second time in 2024. This time planting 800 plants at this site located beside Lords Bush, one of the last remaining lowland beech forests of this type.

CPW funded $500 towards plants for this site.

35 staff from Corde planted on this day – an event funding by Environment Canterbury. The landowners provided an amazing home baked selection for morning tea and the Corde management put on a bbq for the team once finished. The day was windy and the site is challenging due to the very wet conditions during spring but Daniel and Ginny spend a lot of time maintaining their site and have excellent survival results. Along with their family, they also planted a further 1700 plants this season. They have one more year of planting at the site.