It was a beautiful sunny day for our mid-winter working bee.
Plenty of tasks awaited us before our shared lunch.
Lots of people chose to cycle to the allotment
today since it was such a beautiful day.
Truly a blue-sky working bee day in the winter sunshine.
Janet and Bill do the 'washing up' - preparing the used
pots for re-use in the glasshouse
John prepared some cuttings of tropical Apricot in the glasshouse.
Sarah helps weed the Kowhai around the sign with...
with Deborah.
Jan, in her Ibiza hat, weeds the paths
Bev planting out some Globe Artichokes in the new garden area.
with Sinead
and Kelly - adding compost before digging it in.
The new finished Globe Artichoke bed looks great!
Ann and Jackie preparing the new potato bed
Lots of work was done to repair and improve the Mara Kumara fence.
Karine helps the team repair the fences.
John lashing on more bracing.
Keni working with Cath.
The Shining Cuckoo's call will let us know it is time to
again plant the Mara Kumara garden.
The Shining Cuckoo's call will let us know it is time to
again plant the Mara Kumara garden.
And Carla - escaping from her study - helps repair the fences.
David
and Judy
Team fence building!
Keni, Rose, Deborah, Trevor, David and Arthur
enjoy the camaraderie of the working bee.
The compost builders - Arthur
David
and Trevor.
Back from selling at the Grey Lynn
Farmers Market earlier in the morning.
Back from selling at the Grey Lynn
Farmers Market earlier in the morning.
Our lovely Hugelkulter, continues to gently feed the soil.
Our young Amazons scaled the big bark pile - Caitlin and Lucile
Seamus is growing up!
No need for the warm woollies when working in the sunshine!
From L to R:
Ann, Sinead, Kelly, Bev, Seamus and Jackie help
Ann, Sinead, Kelly, Bev, Seamus and Jackie help
prepare the new potato plot.
Helen works weeding the entrance way trees
with Steph and
Sarah.
Rose, in her glorious jersey.
Produce for the working-bee workers to share.
Lots of sweet grapefruit
The grapefruit variety is Cutlers Red!
Lemons
Jerusalem (F)artichokes
and Yacon.
And our delicious shared lunch.
Hooray for the Sanctuary Mahi Whenua, the bountiful produce and the
many hands that made light work of the days tasks.
