From vegies to native plants
EASTERN BAY of Plenty branch member Wendy Lynch has had to give up her vegetable garden to accommodate the branch’s native plant > shadehouse. The shadehouse project has rapidly expanded over the last year and had to be moved onto Wendy’s property in August. Plants raised in the shadehouse are used in native revegetation programmes in the Bay of Plenty region. The regional council is a major purchaser, as is the Department of Conservation. Plants are given free to schools which are keen to green their patch and to other groups at below
commercial prices. As well as being an important conservation project in its own right, the operation is also the branch’s major revenue earner — especially through its annual June sale. The branch plans to soon run more frequent sales to the public, in particular to local farmers. Wendy has recently put a funding submission to a charitable trust to develop an endangered plants component to the propagation work — especially ground cover plants and orchids.
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Forest and Bird, Issue 280, 1 May 1996, Page 12
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