Eleven-year-old Aela Breeze and mum Orla Breeze plant a native sedge called Carex secta along the stream bank. Photo / Peter de Graaf
The old adage of many hands making light work was proven once again last weekend when more than 70 volunteers took just two hours to plant 1100 trees and shrubs.
Sunday morning's planting bee, organised by Vision Kerikeri and the Friends of Wairoa Stream, brings the number of plantings along
the stream to 2900 so far this season and 14,000 since the project began.
The aim is to turn what was once a weed-choked, inaccessible stream in central Kerikeri into a public walking track and wildlife corridor.
Vision Kerikeri founder Rod Brown said the group was now managing 3km of stream and about 2.5km of track.
The walkway starts at a footbridge at bottom of Pā Rd, where it connects with a Department of Conservation track from the Stone Store, then heads upstream via Wairere Falls and the Cobham Rd Bridge as far as Shepherd Rd.
