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Some things we get up to...

Some things we get up to...

It's not all work at the Tree Trust. Here we are, socialising at a mid-winter lunch at Karapiro. We had been treating ourselves twice a year; mid-winter and pre-Christmas, but as the later time has Read more

Plastic sheeting!

Tuesday 1st July 2025. Many years ago, this land, which is part of the the Green Belt, was leased for grazing. Supplementary feed was delivered in bales wrapped in plastic. The plastic was cut off Read more

Kahikatea Grove 1.7.25

Kahikatea Grove 1.7.25

Tuesday, 1st July 2025. Today we planted the edge of a drain that the council had cleared of a good many difficult weeds, including a lot of blackberry and gorse. It's been sprayed and the first Read more

The Town of Trees

The Town of Trees

Hall St. in May. What can be done with street trees. Hall Street's paving isn't very wide, but the verges are and this is the result. It would be nice to think that this view is replicated in other Read more

Trees are not immortal

Trees are not immortal

Depending on the species, trees have a natural lifespan from a few decades to several millennia. Some palms live only 50 years; birches, willows and fruit trees for not much longer. Beeches can live Read more

The Loop Track

The idea came from two Cambridge women who made a casual comment to our Chairman, Don Willoughby, that it would be nice to have a loop track around the end of the hill where bluegums had been felled, Read more

The rain it raineth...

every day, upon the just and unjust fella, and that is why I like to bring my motorised umbrella. (aka my car) Thursday, June 12th 2025 was wet. It had rained overnight, and rain continued, but some Read more

The Swale, the Truck

Occasionally, things do not go according to plan. It was easy enough to get the truck into the work area, but a bit harder to get it out. The driver veered to avoid a bush, with disastrous consequenc Read more

Planting in the swale

After a very long wait, while the weather decided what it was going to be, we finally got on to planting the Swale in the Brian Mayo Reserve. Previously, the weather had been too dry, then too wet. Read more

Gabrielle

Cyclone Gabrielle didn't cause much damage in Cambridge compared to the havoc it wreaked elsewhere. Nevertheless, the Council needed help to tidy up windblown branches and trees. We were happy to Read more

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