Looking After Us
How lucky are we to have Darcy and Tania Kemp and their Aotea Health Care Team? Each week Tim Higham gets to the heart of Island Life on Aotea Great Barrier Island through interviews on AoteaFM. On 26 March, Tim … Read More
A Bubbly Fermentation Workshop
Grow Food Aotea “startered” off the first of the 2024 series of Food Resilience Workshops with a wonderful gathering of islanders at Okiwi Passion on 9 March for a skill share. It was a full-on day of learning, tasting, eating … Read More
Maori Women’s Welfare League Re-established
As all may know or attended, the Island held the very first Waitangi day commemorations,hosted by Te Motu o Aotea Māori Womens Welfare league. For those who don’t know, TeTiriti o Waitangi was signed in 1840 between Māori Rangatira and … Read More
Extra Security for Aotea’s Ground Dwelling Birds
Kiwi avoidance was first established in 1996 as a useful tool for dog owners to deter their dogs from injuring or killing kiwi if they were to go into areas where kiwi live. Fast-forward 20 years to 2015 – the … Read More
In the Garden in March
The nature of nature is change and rhythm and now days are shortening and temperatures are easing. Plants are preparing for winter- ripening their seed, sending starches down the roots. Autumn offers the opportunity of harvesting crops to store over … Read More
Caught a feed lately? Seen any mushy fleshed snapper?
Report your catch to LegaSea. Mushy or not. Snapper, the scavengers of the ocean, are one of the least fussy fish when it comes to food. For many Kiwis they symbolise a classic summer day out fishing and a feed … Read More
World Parrot Expert Visiting Okiwi
On 12 March, World Parrot Org’s Luis Ortiz-Catedral will be on Island to walk us through the reserve in Okiwi which is home to a population of Kākāriki, on which he is an expert. Luis last joined us in January … Read More
Asian Paddle Crab Monitoring Expands
The Okiwi Community Ecology Project has been carrying out its annual Asian Paddle Crab monitoring in the Whangapoua estuary since November. The students of Okiwi School are experts at this conservation mahi and this season has seen two juvenile pest … Read More
What’s Happening on the Hill?
This year we celebrate 25 years of ecological restoration in the Windy Hill Sanctuary. Beginning with a 100 rat traps in a tiny 20 HA patch at Windy Hill in 1999 we now manage pests in partnership with 58 landowners … Read More
Not a Friendly Fern: Climbing Asparagus on Aotea
Climbing Asparagus also known as Asparagus fern, Mesophyll scandens, originally from South America, is one of the North Islands worst weeds and is well established across the North Island and has spread to the South Island. It smothers native vegetation and … Read More
