“That was awesome”. The sun was shining, the sky was blue, and the wind was still for a tree planting day at Mairehau on 10 October 2021.

Community volunteers are planting thousands of Kahikatea saplings to form a flood zone forest in the Cranford Basin. The seeds were sourced from Riccarton Bush.

Other trees, like Ngaio, are planted to help shelter the Kahikatea while they grow to maturity.

The tree planting was led by Trees for Canterbury with the Christchurch City Council, Conservation Volunteers NZ and the RSA (which hopes to plant 350,000 trees nationwide to honour each person who has served overseas in the Armed Forces since the First World War).

Volunteers planted 40,000 Kahikatea saplings this winter.

Planting Ten Trees a year for each person on the Parish roll is our response to the declaration of of a climate change and ecological emergency at Synod 2019.

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