Kaitiakitanga
Kaitiakitanga Program and Network
Te Whaiti Nui-a-Toi children
guard and share Whirinaki,
their culture, language and values
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Kaitiakitanga Program and Network |
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7.3.1 Whirinaki Nursery - Project Details:"Restoring our World" Description: (See Project Roadmap which identifies milestone dates) This project involves establishing a native nursery in the valley that will replant the areas previously left cleared by milling operations and start waterway planting for river / lake quality protection. A big problem in the Central North Island lakes. See what needs to be done in our catchment
We have taken advantage of the UNITEC Architecture students concept planning project to design and construct this in the left rear of the old forestry depot compound which will become the Whirinaki Centre and be the focus for many Kaitiakitanga Program activities. See proposed nursery site layout
The site provides good nursery facilities including a small sunny admin office / staff room and good covered shed space for storage, secure storage and vehicle garaging, potting and other operations, so that large groups visiting the valley can participate even on rainy days. UNITEC students will help us design and construct new shade and glass houses using mainly local materials. There is good access from here to allow the plant hardening area to grow onto the sunny and less frosty hillside directly behind. An adjacent building is being refurbished to become the Whirinaki Enterprise Centre which as well as housing, education resources and displays for class teaching and tourist information about the area, will also house a utility space where new enterprises, crafts and other activities can be started, by our youth and community. We want to encourage what we saw at Raglan; using the nursery and other facilities to provide "hands in the dirt" learning opportunities for school, tourists and other groups visiting the valley. We would like them to have them plant a tree and leave a part of themselves here with it. The site has other buildings that may also be a base for some of our other planned activities - like recycling, historical forestry museum displays. The large old workshop with overhead gantry may be suitable for future recovery saw milling, log sculpture or similar heavier enterprises. We have initiated discussions with WINZ, Labour Dept and others to find some innovative ways of employing people for the first year of nursery operation until we have plants available for sale or use. As much of this will involve "just in time" learning our aim is to have people working on this project funded as an approved training / work development programme. Models for this are in operation in Raglan, Hokianga and many other places. We have made preliminary contact with Environment BOP and others likely to fund initiatives for River restoration and stream protection work in 2005. When this is completed we will be seeking tourist, commercial or contract customers to provide the ongoing income required to support the nursery. Budget production to support the employment of four people in the nursery would require an income of around $200k per Annum,. or in plant sales terms around 100,000 plants per annum sold at $2 each under supply contracts. This means we require an average daily production rate of around of 500 plants established per day. Outcomes:
Resources: NZ Ecological Restoration Network http://www.bush.org.nz/ Start Date: July 2004 after ECSD funding for this project was approved in principal.
Budget: ECSD funds budgeted to cover learning to get people up to speed. We need to organise other funding and contracts to support this venture. Nominal Project Leader: Currently coordinated by Andy Blick and team Project Team: Nursery operational team to be established Issues Register:
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To pick up the skills needed to get this established we propose asking our friends at 