Post by Kiwi Frontline on May 30, 2018 17:32:40 GMT 12
PRISONERS PLANT MĀNUKA ON MĀORI LAND
100ha of Māori land in Hawke's Bay that was destroyed in a fire last year is getting a new lease on life with around 65,000 mānuka trees set to be planted on it with the aim of entering the mānuka honey market.
A group of Hawke's Bay Regional Prison inmates have been caring for 15,000 mānuka seedlings.
"It's helped them with unit standards. There has been plant propagation, health and safety and also a bit of irrigation, that sort of thing...it's also given them the opportunity to get in there and use their hands," says Dave Collier, horticulture instructor at the prison......
www.maoritelevision.com/news/regional/prisoners-plant-manuka-on-maori-land
100ha of Māori land in Hawke's Bay that was destroyed in a fire last year is getting a new lease on life with around 65,000 mānuka trees set to be planted on it with the aim of entering the mānuka honey market.
A group of Hawke's Bay Regional Prison inmates have been caring for 15,000 mānuka seedlings.
"It's helped them with unit standards. There has been plant propagation, health and safety and also a bit of irrigation, that sort of thing...it's also given them the opportunity to get in there and use their hands," says Dave Collier, horticulture instructor at the prison......
www.maoritelevision.com/news/regional/prisoners-plant-manuka-on-maori-land