Lydia Street Park
An exciting new space being created in Lumsden Those of you who enjoy walking through town may have noticed planty things happening down on Lydia Street. Last Spring, the Northern Southland Reforestation Trust started planting out the new Lumsden Park space. With the help of local businesses, our wonderful volunteers and the ‘Plant Lovers Social […]
The vision for the Lumsden Creek
As well as starting a community nursery, The Northern Southland Reforestation Trust has a vision of planting out the banks of the creeks around Lumsden. You will have seen that we have started planting alongside the creek by the old railway bridge. The plants have really started taking off and there have been very few […]
Acknowledging our sponsors so far.
When the idea of having a Community Nursery popped into the heads of some real Northern Southland Greenies, little did they know how much interest in this concept would be out there. The support for this project has been overwhelming and, despite the official opening being delayed several months, there has been a lot of […]
Thank you to all our wonderful volunteers!
The day was cold, the fingers were numb, but the spirits were high as we tackled the tasks set for our nursery session on 19th June. A good crowd turned up for this special event that coincided with the start of Volunteer week. Was it the promise of free food? Free plants? Or just because […]