Roslyn Commons Project working bees, all are welcome. Bring your favourite gardening tools and water to drink.
Foxton
Wednesdays 9.30 – noon weekly (weather dependent)
Meet at the Bird Lookout
Every Wednesday, the team work together, along with a small crew, to remove weeds, and tackle the spread of coastal wattle, euphorbia, tree lupin, fleabane, and other invasive species. The group starts at the bird lookout and works their way down to the Surf Life Saving Club car park before starting over again.
1st Wednesday every month, 2nd and 4th Saturday of each month. Green Corridors is a voluntary group that works with Palmerston North City Council to plant reserve areas to encourage native biodiversity. They would like to engage a few extra volunteers to maintain a plantation of young native trees in the Summerhill area. Best if volunteers can commit to attending regularly, and good fitness is needed as work is on sloping and uneven ground. Email ENM to register your interest.
1st Wednesday every month, 2nd and 4th Saturday of each month. Green Corridors is a voluntary group that works with Palmerston North City Council to plant reserve areas to encourage native biodiversity. They would like to engage a few extra volunteers to maintain a plantation of young native trees in the Summerhill area. Best if volunteers can commit to attending regularly, and good fitness is needed as work is on sloping and uneven ground. Email ENM to register your interest.
Help organise, promote and be on the ground.
Work is varied but mostly involves weed pest control within the reserve. Anyone is welcome to join. Next working bee: Friday 5th September.
Help connect our community with New Zealand's wildlife. As a volunteer, you'll be one of the friendly faces welcoming visitors and sharing stories about our wildlife, or helping behind the scenes with animal husbandry.
Help children with cooking and gardening.
Looking for a passionate volunteer to manage a small community garden and pataka kai.
The City to Sea Rail Trail is looking for volunteers to help progress this exciting community project. Roles: Social Media (2-3 posts weekly); Funding Applications (8-10 applications each year); Community Connector (Community & Stakeholder Engagement); Trail Construction Advisor.
Every Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday 9am-2pm. The main aim of Menzshed is to keep people involved with the community, and to undertake projects to benefit the community. Sharing skills and friendship, creating, refurbishing and mending. Get in touch on [email protected] for more information. www.menzshedmanawatu.org.nz/contact/
We come together to plant, harvest and tend the māra to make fresh, organic vegetables and fruit freely available to the community (including our volunteers!). Mondays at 12pm for 1hr. Tools and gloves provided. Bring yourself, a water bottle and any homegrown seedlings that need a place to grow. All are welcome! Any questions, contact Mark at [email protected].
Fortnightly session on a Sunday, members of the group are out from around 10am doing maintenance, weeding, observing the changes in the Dune Garden. Make your way to the Top Ten trailer park in Foxton Beach, where Pinewood Road starts. Follow Pinewood Road around to the estuary/beach parking area, then walk west, over the first big dune. Please email [email protected] to find out the plan for the event.
Join the Ahimate Reserve Community, weeding, tree and shrub releasing, mulching and tree planting. All welcome. Meet at the sandwich board at 9:30am, or look for the flag in the park, along the riverside track.
2nd & 4th Sunday of each month. A Rocha Manawatū is the local branch of A Rocha, a Christian conservation organization caring for the living world and its environment among all people worldwide. This branch has a nursery at Longburn, where they raise native plants for local planting projects. All welcome (you don't need to be a church-goer). Contact Christine, 06 353 6820.
Join a group of friendly locals for an easy working bee to help preserve the environment for this endangered plant. 10am, meet in the BBQ area by the playground. BYO snacks, drink, sun protection, gardening gloves, sturdy shoes. Weather dependent - updates posted on Ashhurst and Palmerston North Community Facebook groups.
The Pit Park People have turned this disused quarry into a lush urban park visited by native birds. You are invited to be part of this project by growing plants, planting, weeding or anything else you may be able to help with. All welcome - jobs can be found for all fitness levels. Stay for a cuppa afterwards.
Roslyn Commons Project working bees, all are welcome. Bring your favourite gardening tools and water to drink.
Come help ENM sort its plastic lids for recycling and upcycling. Every Thursday at the ENM Office, 145 Cuba Street, 11am-12pm. Contact [email protected] for more information.
Volunteer Library Gardening happens most weeks led by our wonderful deputy chairperson Suzanne. Everyone - all levels of experience and ability - welcome. Come along as a one-off or as a regular. Wear clothes you don't mind getting a bit dirty or wet, and bring along a pair of gardening gloves if you have them. Feel free to bring your own tools; if not, there are tools for our use in the garden shed. Email: [email protected]
1st Wednesday every month, 2nd and 4th Saturday of each month. Green Corridors is a voluntary group that works with Palmerston North City Council to plant reserve areas to encourage native biodiversity. They would like to engage a few extra volunteers to maintain a plantation of young native trees in the Summerhill area. Best if volunteers can commit to attending regularly, and good fitness is needed as work is on sloping and uneven ground. Email ENM to register your interest.
1st Sunday of each month but if that is a holiday weekend then it is moved to the 2nd Sunday of the month - always weather dependent. 9.30-11am. The Trust's aim is growing fruit as well as restoration of the wetland and bush for all to enjoy. Please get in contact with Barbara to RSVP and confirm it's happening. 027 444 8355 or [email protected]
