Te Whanau Hou Grovetown Lagoon is working with NZ Landcare Trust on a new initiative to join families and young people with nature. There are several activities underway and in the pipeline. Firstly, students from Enviro Schools around Marlborough have been coming out to the lagoon to work alongside the Wetland Warriors on Wednesday mornings.
The second event is a community planting day, to be held this Sunday the 14th of July for families to come out to the Lagoon. It is going to be a great day, it will start at 9:30am with an introduction to the lagoon and mindfulness, then there will be tree planting beside Kelly’s Creek. We are hoping to get about 600 plants into the ground. The community planting day will end with a free BBQ cooked by the Lions Club.
There are other activities also being planned such as a bio-blitz at the lagoon and a workshop on the secretive native wetland bird the bittern. Thank you to Tuamarina and Waikawa schools, our first two schools to take part in the Enviro Schools Junior Landcare and pictured above.
