Whakanewha Regional Park, Waiheke Island Start Date: 9am - Tuesday, December 01, 2009 End Date: 12 noon - Tuesday, December 01, 2009 Meet at the park office opposite the campsite on the left at the end of the park on Gordons Road.
All tools supplied. Any queries email Andy on Andy.Spence@arc.govt.nz.
Local News:
29 Mar, 2010
Rakino Island Weeding Author:Hanna Scott On Saturday 24 October a small but dedicated team of 4 volunteers worked their way up the Road Reserve chain sawing and hand sawing Rhamnus and painting the stumps with Vigilant.
22 Feb, 2010
Restored wetlands the goal of symposium Author:Sarah Crump Floating wetlands on Lake Rotoehu that mimic the water cleansing attributes of the real thing will be just one of the sites attendees can choose to visit this coming March.
30 Oct, 2008
Mucky Month of Weeding Author:Danielle - Auckland Spring has sprung and all the weeds that grew so slowly throughout winter came on very fast for us and our Dirty Weekend turned into a downright Mucky Month.
30 Oct, 2008
Clearing and Re-planting a Bank Author:Beth - Wellington We spent some time in October tackling a 50sq.mtr bank covered in Tradescantia, hemlock and bindweed.
30 Oct, 2008
Clearing an overgrown garden Author:Sharlene - Wellington As the new owners of our recently purchased property, we climbed through the overgrown garden and discovered that there were 3 levels of retaining walls up the hill which we couldn't even see through the horrific wild blackberry!!
30 Oct, 2008
From weeds to potato patch Author:Sarah My husband spent loads of time on the weekend clearing out forget-me-knots and chickweed from a patch about 9m squared, ...
30 Oct, 2008
Birthday present of weeding Author:Deidre - Canterbury This year we gave a "dirty weekend" to our friend for his birthday.
30 Oct, 2008
Weeding Neighbouring Property too! Author:Glenda - Auckland We have worked hard to improve the land we live on and the neighbouring vacant section.
30 Oct, 2008
Huge effort over a whole month Author:Pauline - Auckland My neighbour Mike's property, which borders with mine, had never been "looked at " for over 30 years, and many of the original garden plants were now weed problems.
30 Oct, 2008
Section clearing & re-planting continuing Author:Lance - Hamilton On our October "Dirty Weekend" list was to get rid of the rest of the aluminium weed and replace it with more hostas and fuchsias.
30 Oct, 2008
Big Garden Clearout Author:Catherine - Southland In October, we decided to spend our dirty weekend removing silver birch from the garden. They lined the drive and were beautiful, but created problems for the allergy sufferers in the family.
30 Oct, 2008
Clearing sand dunes Author:Edith - Bay of Plenty When we purchased this beach front property in 1979 we all used the very front of our sections,which blend with the sand dunes as our dumping ground for all our garden rubbish. As the years have rolled by we like a lot of other New Zealanders have become aware of the impact on the sand dunes.
30 Oct, 2008
Weeding Grandfather's Garden Author:Liana My partner and I spent Labour Weekend weeding my grandfather's backyard along the back fence line.
19 Dec, 2007
Waiheke Winner's Naughty Nights Author:Weedbusters Waiheke residents were offered a chance to win a ‘Naughty Nights’ package at Auckland’s City Life Hotel as part of the W...
19 Dec, 2007
Murrays Bay Weedbusters write... Author:Trish Best, Murrays Bay School My class (Year 3) at Murrays Bay School in Auckland has been working on a project all year involving the first stage in ...
19 Dec, 2007
It's Business Time for Adopt-a-Verge Author:Jenness Reeve, Waiheke Weedbusters Waiheke businesses are taking up the Weedbusters challenge, by adopting areas of roadside where weeds have taken over, a...
19 Oct, 2007
Dirty Weekends to Protect North Head from Weeds Author:Weedbusters Landowners around historic North Head/Maungauika are being asked to have a ‘dirty weekend’ or two in their own backyards...
13 Jun, 2007
Waiheke Weedbusters Declare War on Weeds Author:Jenness Reeve, Waiheke Weedbusters Waiheke Island has gone Weedbusters mad, with community efforts supported by a team from Waiheke Weedfree Trust, Aucklan...
12 Jun, 2007
Giant Reed Grass Goes Down a Treat Author:Weedbusters Auckland Zoo’s elephants, Kashin and Burma, were in for a whopping great treat when they were presented with a trailerlo...
16 May, 2007
ARC's Environmental Initiatives Fund Open for Business Author:ARC The Auckland Regional Council’s EIF fund was established to support individuals and groups involved in not-for-profit pr...
14 Mar, 2007
Auckland Weedbusters write... Author:Weedbusters The hunt was on in West Auckland as Weedfree Waitakere’s annual War on Weeds project kicked off for 2007. The target: ni...
3 Jul, 2006
ARC’s Environmental Initiatives Fund is open Author:Auckland Regional Council Auckland Regional Council’s Environmental Initiatives Fund (EIF), now in its sixth year, is seeking applicants fo...
23 Jan, 2006
Doctors prescribe attitude change for World’s weediest city Author:Landcare Research Researchers say responding to the threat of weeds early rather than waiting until plants become weeds is crucial for cur...
8 Dec, 2005
New plants suggested for pest control Author:Auckland Regional Council Environmentally damaging plants including agapanthus, phoenix palm and English ivy, are being suggested for possible inc...
4 Nov, 2005
Weedbusters Winners Author:Weedbusters Rangitoto College, Karekare Landcare and the Motutapu Restoration Trust are among the big winners in the inaugural Auckl...
12 Sep, 2005
Motuihe Island Training for Volunteer Weedbusters Author:Weedbusters A free tree and weed recognition workshop will be held next Sunday, 18 September, for volunteers interested in joining w...
22 Aug, 2005
Auckland Weedbusters Awards Author:Auckland Regional Council Nominations for the 2005 Auckland weedbusters awards are currently open. Nominations must be received by 31 August 2005 ...
13 Mar, 2005
BioBlitz uncovers a new weed in Auckland Author: A new invasive tropical grass species, blood-sucking leeches, dog vomit slime mould, peanut-butter-loving vermin and hug...
20 Oct, 2004
Coastal Invader Alert Author:Auckland Regional Council Rhamnus (Evergreen buckthorn), is an aggressive tree which is invading our coastal areas. It has the ability to form de...
10 Mar, 2004
Rangitoto Olive Author:Jonathan Boow One of these trees just doesn’t fit in here…
...is that an olive tree growing amongst this clump of pohutuka...
