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 trees are going in. There are more to come on the other side of the drain and later, there will be infill planting with smaller trees and shrubs. There were a lot of us here today. Usually school holidays result in a shortage as our members go on grandparent duty minding children, but not this time. We got through the job in ¾ of an hour, then went on to deal with weeds and plastic in the kahikatea grove.