Since late last year, our friends at Te Kākano have been developing and running free workshops for the community, teaching folk how to weave a plant guard using harakeke.

The Interwoven Project teaches people how to respectfully harvest and work with harakeke (flax) according to tikanga, in making a beautiful plant guard for native plants. As Te Kākano say, the project is “…about weaving together people, culture and our environment”.

They have been incredibly popular around town, and a hot ticket to get your hands on.

We’re proud to be hosting Te Kākano for one of their Interwoven workshops at Bullock Creek wetlands on Thursday 22nd May from 12pm-2pm. Attendance is free but registration is required as there is a maximum of 20 participants for the workshop.

Head to the Te Kākano website for more information and to book your spot: https://tekakano.org.nz/

Today we want to recognise the importance of partnerships, collaborations and funders to the continued mahi of Friends of Bullock Creek. When organisations work together, resources, knowledge, skills and efficiencies can be shared, meaning more capability within the community for environmental, ecosystem and change and benefit for everyone.

 With the continued collaboration and partnership with key organisations like Te Kākano, WAI Wānaka, Otago Catchment Community Inc, Tiaki Bees, Wānaka Backyard Trapping, Otago Regional Council and Otago Fish & Game, we benefit from their resources and their own staff and volunteer bases, providing the land on which we undertake the restoration work, providing support and guidance, helping us to plant the native plants, and monitoring the creek and waterway health. Plus so much more.

And without funding from key funders like Otago Catchment Community Inc, Patagonia and Central Lakes Trust, the wetlands restoration work we do at Bullock Creek wouldn’t happen. Period.

And let’s not forget our wonderful volunteers, who we continue to uplift and celebrate, in being there week in, week out over the past 9 years, during the rain and the sunshine, doing the hard mahi of weeding, mulching, and planting (and everything in between) to help restore Bullock Creek wetlands and springs to the space we all enjoy now.

Thank you to everyone who makes, and has made, Bullock Creek what it is today.

Be sure to check out and support all these fabulous organisations- together, we all make a strong community, passionate about environmental and ecosystem health and wellbeing.