Green Spaces in our community
As 2023 starts to pick up speed with many challenges ahead for New Zealanders I noticed a very relevant article in today’s Bay of Plenty Times that Priority One and our four Commissioners who 'run' Tauranga city should read carefully and contemplate with an eye to the future of the last open green space in downtown Tauranga before any final decisions they should make on Tauranga Domain are considered. See www.handsofftaurangadomain.org... for the BOP Times article.
The statement in the article by the late evolutionary biologist,Stephen Jay Gould, remains as appropriate today as it was 20 years ago when he died.His statement deserves thoughtful reading and contemplation.
The leaders of Hamilton city(their city council) have got it right ensuring that 80% of households have access to a park or green space within 500 metres of their their home.
And even more important in this thought provoking article is the way a park's 'green space' is described......'unsealed urban land with some form of vegetation cover dominated by introduced vegetation such as grass'.Just the way the Tauranga Domain currently is.
The Tauranga Domain offers the last downtown large, open green space with an abundant number of trees where birdsong is heard by the park user rather than the noise of traffic. And is a central place for people to meet socially, play sport and be active.
What is proposed by Priority One and soon to be voted upon by the four Commissioners of this city is a stadium enclosed on 3 sides for a few minor rugby matches each year, without the well used athletic track and bowls and croquet clubs with their lawns ripped out for a concrete carpark. Further neither the bowls or croquet clubs have a clue where they might be relocated to. What sort of planning is that !?
What's your favourite recipe for courgettes?
Kia ora neighbours. If you've got a family recipe for courgettes, we'd love to see it and maybe publish it in our magazine. Send your recipe to mailbox@nzgardener.co.nz, and if we use it in the mag, you will receive a free copy of our January 2025 issue.
Live Q&A: Garden maintenance with Crewcut
This Wednesday, we are having another Neighbourly Q&A session. This time with John Bracewell from Crewcut.
John Bracewell, former Black Caps coach turned Franchisee Development Manager and currently the face of Crewcut’s #Movember campaign, knows a thing or two about keeping the grass looking sharp—whether it’s on a cricket pitch or in your backyard!
As a seasoned Crewcut franchisee, John is excited to answer your lawn and gardening questions. After years of perfecting the greens on the field, he's ready to share tips on how to knock your garden out of the park. Let's just say he’s as passionate about lush lawns as he is about a good game of cricket!
John is happy to answer questions about lawn mowing, tree/hedge trimming, tidying your garden, ride on mowing, you name it! He'll be online on Wednesday, 27th of November to answer them all.
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Calling All Puzzle Masters! Can You Solve This?
When John was six years old he hammered a nail into his favorite tree to mark his height.
Ten years later at age sixteen, John returned to see how much higher the nail was.
If the tree grew by five centimetres each year, how much higher would the nail be?
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