Native seedlings ready for schools

West Eyreton School students potting up their native seedlings last week.

WIL’s biodiversity project lead Dan Cameron has finished the propagation of native seedlings for schools participating in the biodiversity project. Swannanoa and West Eyreton schools and Cust Preschool will each receive 600 native seedlings to grow in their school greenhouses this year.

The potted up native seedlings inside West Eyreton School’s greenhouse which is provided to the school by WIL as part of the biodiversity project.

Each school will hold a potting up event during the next few weeks. The students then decide where they want to plant their seedlings. Swannanoa Schools students have formed a strong relationship with Bryan and Rosemary Whyte’s biodiversity project at Marawiti, so they have already decided to continue planting their seedlings at the Burgess Stream site.