Our second Junior Landcare planting day, delivered in partnership with Wairau Nature Network, brought together 120 students from Wairau Valley, Springlands and Rapaura Schools.
As well as planting more than 500 native trees, the tamariki enthusiastically took part in a Crazy Yoga session led by Pilates instructor and physiotherapist Miranda Vriend. While the Junior Landcare programme is about creating lasting environmental benefits through planting, it’s also about giving young people tools to support their body, mind and wellbeing, and making nature restoration fun. Miranda’s Crazy Yoga certainly delivered on that front, and it was great to see plenty of adults joining in too!
It was also wonderful to have the Trees for Marlborough team alongside the tamariki on the day. The plants had been lovingly grown by the team, so it was especially rewarding for them to see the process come full circle, from seed to planting in the ground.
Huge thanks to NZ Landcare Trust’s Junior Landcare sponsors Bupa Foundation, for enabling this legacy planting to happen.