Scouts planting

What a day, what a lovely day. A delight to see young ones having great fun outdoors, getting their hands, and some feet, in the mud planting flax on the wet gully floor. While one of them accused us of exploiting child labour (do they know such things at this age?) they all really did enjoy themselves, as did the parents. We have very limited opportunity to get groups of children in for planting because of the terrain in our gully. It is usually too wet or too steep or the plant type makes it more difficult. This was just flax. Hard to kill and they just had to get it into the soft, muddy ground. Nice and simple. This area is mainly flax with a few cabbage trees. The flax is planted close together to support each other. There are no canopy trees planted. The plan is that, in the future, you can walk through the kahikatea dominant forest then come out into a clearing covered in flax. Flax like sun so, with no trees, they should thrive. Drone photo: Child labour hard at work!- David Roper