Southland Community Nursery
Getting involved and being part of conservation efforts
You don't have to wait until Arbor Day to do your bit to reduce your carbon footprint or help restore habitats. The Southland Community Nursery in Otatara is a wonderful place to learn about our native trees and the benefits they have for the region.
Operating for over 10 years the nursery is run by volunteers and has the facilities and materials needed to assist people with growing native plants. Many local groups now raise plants for revegetation through the nursery and there are plenty of opportunities for participation in the ecological restoration of local areas.
Limehills school children at the
community nursery
The community nursery is a great way to be involved and play an active part in enhancing our valuable resources as well as being a fantastic way to spend time in the outdoors with family, friends or other groups. The nursery is open most Friday's (please phone Thursday night if you intend to come along).
Sharing skills and knowledge is the motivation behind the nursery's founders - Brian and Chris Rance, who see it a way for people to produce hundred of native plants for restoration schemes and restoring natural places at no cost except their time.
The nursery is also considered a Southland hub, where those interested in native flora and restoring native areas can network and share ideas, materials and native cuttings.
Southland Community Nursery
Arbor Day, 2007
If you are interested in doing your bit for the environment but don't know where or how to start, the nursery holds regular training sessions which teach you how to propagate native plants from cuttings as well as producing stock for use in spring.
If this sounds like you, get in touch with the Southland Community Nursery in Otatara, they will be only too pleased to hear from you.