Please note: (Due to overwhelming demand, we are no longer accepting requests for free trees. We are all out) CVNZ has teamed up with Mondelēz New Zealand to give away 1,500 free native trees and shrubs to households in Auckland (available now) and Christchurch (available soon) to help attract native birds […]
Community Planting Days are back! 🌳 We had planned for this winter to be our biggest planting season yet. CVNZ is committed to planting tens of thousands of native trees around New Zealand but now, due to Covid -19 changes, we need your help more than ever to get these trees in the ground. Many of […]
Tomorrow – Tuesday 5 May is Earth Overshoot Day for New Zealand! What on Earth does that mean? It means that if everyone on our planet, all 7.8 billion of us, consumed and used resources (Ecological Footprint) at the same rate that we do in New Zealand; then on 5 May this year we would […]
Today – Wednesday 22 April is Earth Day. It’s the 50th anniversary of the annual Earth Days starting way back in 1970! That beginning sparked the passage in the “U.S. of the Clean Air, Clean Water and Endangered Species Acts, and the creation of the Environmental Protection Agency”. When I think about the 1970s – […]
While we’re at home, it’s fun to slow down and explore what’s around us. Some of the plants we think of as weeds are edible and can be a great addition to our diets! At this time of year, one of the most common wild plants we see around are dandelions (Taraxacum officinale). These have […]