Working Bee - August 12th 2018

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.

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.

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 

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.