Kerikeri Stone Store Weedbusters Start Date: 9am - Monday, September 27, 2010 End Date: Monday, September 27, 2010 We meet every second and fourth Monday morning in the month at 9am in the car park in the Stone Store basin on the north side of the river. Contact David Fisher for more info on 09 407 5244.
Kerikeri Stone Store Weedbusters Start Date: 9am - Monday, September 13, 2010 End Date: Monday, September 13, 2010 We meet every second and fourth Monday morning in the month at 9am in the car park in the Stone Store basin on the north side of the river. Contact David Fisher for more info on 09 407 5244.
Local News:
9 Aug, 2010
Puketi Weedbusters: a Call for Volunteers Author: The campground in Puketi Forest is a lovely spot for a family outing. There is a campground with basic amenities, a short nature trail with labeled plants and longer trails for the fit intrepid tramper. Located just 25 minutes drive from Kerikeri, Puketi Forest is also a gem in the chain of the Te Araroa Trail.
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.
8 Feb, 2010
Tokerau Beach Weedbusters Author:Gina Williams The local Weedbusters group have been busy removing Cape honey flower from the sand dunes at Tokerau Beach.
8 Feb, 2010
Weed Spraying Concerns Author:Peter Coates Whangarei Heads Landcare Forum’s Peter Coates on a ‘Chemically sensitive subject’
8 Feb, 2010
Raewyn Honeybone – protecting Northland bush from weeds!
Author:Gina Williams Raewyn Honeybone has an eye for weeds and the vision to transform Maungakaramea removing local pest plants.
8 Feb, 2010
RPMS and CPCA’s Author:Gina Williams The Regional Pest Management Strategy has a strong pest control focus and Northland Regional Council has a variety of funding opportunities available.
8 Feb, 2010
Royal fern hunt and other Pouto plant pests Author:Gina Williams Plant pests in Pouto are under the spotlight this year with the Northland Regional Council blitzing African feather grass, Pennisetum macrourum, and DOC set to start work removing kangaroo acacia, Acacia paradoxa.
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.
9 Jun, 2008
Awards for Northland Weed Busters Author:Gina Williams Amazing and inspiring is how Northland’s Weedbusters have been described at this week’s Northland Weedbuster awards.
11 Sep, 2007
KERIKERI NURSERY WINS MOST WEEDWISE AWARD Author:Plant Protection Society Kerikeri Plant Production has been judged New Zealand’s Most Weedwise Nursery in the inaugural Council of Australasian W...
2 May, 2007
Kerikeri Basi Weedbusters Need Your Help! Author: Kerikeri Basin Weedbusters are a small group of dedicated volunteers who meet twice a month to remove weeds. They’ve bee...
19 Jun, 2006
Awards for top weedbusters Author:Northland Regional Council The region’s top weed warriors have been recognised in the inaugural Northland Weedbusters Awards.
The award...
8 Dec, 2005
Have a Wilding Pine Xmas! Author:Weedbusters Northland The Bay of Islands WEEDBUSTERS, have found the answer to “Wilding Pines” which have sprouted in the Puketi Omahuta Fores...
9 Sep, 2005
Taiwan cherry gets the chop Author:Angela Newport, Weeds Ranger DOC The Weedbusters initiative for the Bay of Islands has been focusing on the Kerikeri basin area and the many weed species...
18 Aug, 2005
Taiwan Cherry: a case of good plants turning bad... Author:Liz Sherwood, DOC Taiwan cherry is a garden plant turned very bad! Forty years ago it was imported from East Asia simply to brighten garde...
25 Jul, 2005
A Weed of Nightmare Proportions Author: Following on from last year’s successful event, Weedbusters and the Department of Conservation will be staging a Taiwan ...
10 Jul, 2005
Weedbusters Go to Work in Basin Author:Dan O'Halloran, DOC In a new initiative supported by the Department of Conservation, local and international volunteers are combining to tac...
23 Dec, 2004
Community help appreciated by DOC Weeds Team Author:Department of Conservation Several severe infestations of the invasive weed yellow flag iris were caught just in time thanks to responses from Whan...
25 Nov, 2004
Help prevent spread of aquatic weeds & pests Author:Northland Regional Council Biosecurity experts are urging Northlanders to take a closer look at their recreational gear - including nets, wetsuits ...
