Thank you to all of the lovely people and businesses that made today’s planting day so special… people came from as far away as Oxford, Amberley, Rangiora and Waimate…
CBK Craft Bar & Kitchen Kaiapoi for providing vouchers and putting together the loyalty program….everytime you visit CBK, if you can mention the food forest when paying the bill, a portion of the profits goes to the food forest.
Woodend Nurseries for providing a great deal on the plants and trees.
Ouruhia Nursery for donating a Bay tree.
Ken Batchelor from Hook Bush Nursery in Waimate for donating many plants and lovely apples.
Thank you to all of the families for coming along and special thanks to the entire Smit family for coming along and donated many plants thank you Cassandra Smit, David Ayers and Marilyn, Sanne Susan Mullink-Holland for coming along to help….and all of the others…thank you.
Below is a list of some of the plants and trees that are now in the food forest.
On Sunday evening… the Food forest was sent the following message…
For those that missed the prizewinner for the Cubby House – the randomly chosen winner, and the most nominated, is…………..the Food Forest Kaiapoi – kai is in our name….well done guys and we will be in touch!!!!!!
We will require permission from Council and have to ensure that we create a safe environment… but wow..being most nominated is super awesome
List of some of the plants we planted
5x Kakabeak
5x Kowhai Dragons gold
10x Chamomile lawn
10x Thyme
1x Apple Montys surprise
2x Blueberries Blue crop
2x “ Tasty Blue
2x “ Blue dawn
2x “ Blue magic
2x “ Rahi
2x “ Maru
2x “ Powder blue
2x “ Sapphire blue
2x “ Tiffs Blue
1x Cherry Compact stella
2x Kaffir lime (large grade)
1x Cherry Lapins
1x Grapefruit Golden special
1x Lemonade
1x Bearss Lime
1x Limequat
1x Mandarin kawano
1x mandarin Silverhill
1x Encore
1x Tangelo Seminole
1x orange Cara cara
1x orange Harwood late
1x Hazelnut Barcelona
1x Corylus Avellana
1x olive Verdale
7x orange berry
1x Persimmon Fuyu
1x Phormium Tenax
1x Horopito
1x Kanuka
1x Fig Mrs Williams
1x Fig Vlassoff
2x Pomegranate
1x Plum Damson
1x Logan Berry
1x Amelanchier Canadensis
