The nursery

The nursery

Last year at Kokatahi Kowhitirangi School, the envirogroup planted trees and plants around the school, but the plants were getting ruined from rain and people standing on them. So the teachers and Principal decided that there should be a nursery. Not long after that someone came up to the school and built the nursery.

Not many students knew what it was when it was getting built, but then soon after, it was done we all knew it was a nursery. When the plants are older they could be used for lots of things like selling to the community, planting flax around the wet spots, for planting along the fence and to stop erosion. At first, they planted young plants, but weeds grew as well, so the envirogroup had to empty out all the pots with weeds in them.

After a little while, not many students took much notice about the nursery because nothing was happening with it. We got flax and we sold some to the community. They used some to plant in the muddy patch in the corner. We also used some for The sides of the fences where the drains are.

If the school has enough money they could buy more plants to use for the nursery so there will be no wet patches, no erosion and so birds can live in the plants when they are big.