The Big Plant Up 2025

TE KAKARA O TE WAONUI

BIG PLANT UP

Ohirea Food Forest

12th of July, 2025

Starts: 11am, finished: 3pm

Where: Ohirea Food Forest

By the picnic area next to Benneydale Food Market

Maniaiti – Benneydale

Bring a shovel and some gumboots, we will be planting fruit trees down along the creek bank.

more information contact:  ohirea@waonui.io

Stage 3: Add more trees

If you know where we can source the following seeds, seedlings or grafts please contact us here.

– Golden queen peach trees [Completed]
– Satoimo – Colocasia esculenta
– Ventura – Fig [Completed]
– Horopito – Pseudowintera colorata
– Mountain Kiwi – Actinidia arguta
– Purple passionflower – Passiflora incarnata
– Hetlina heritage apple [Completed]
– Fuero Rous (cider apple variety)

We are also now at the point where we need more nitrogen fixing and and mineral accumulating trees to support our forest.  If you know where we can find the following, or have any of the following you wish to donate to our forest, please contact us.

– Eleagnus multiflora (Goumi)
– Acacia pravissima
– Acacia cultriformis
– Tagasate [Completed]
– Tree medick
– Buttercup tree
– Siberian pea tree
– Tree lupins
– Robinia pseudocacia
– Flowering dogwood
– Seabuckthorn
– Autumn olive
– Wax myrtle
– California bayberry
– Eleagnus ebbingei
– Lespedeza bi colour