With Trees for Canterbury (TFC) celebrating its 25th anniversary next year, it is a good time to reflect and look back at how far the organisation has come from its very humble beginnings from the birth of an idea in 1990. So over the next few months we will be able to dust off some of the old photographs (there are quite a few from before the digital camera age), and show some of the journey. You may or may not know that TFC recycles the 1L cardboard cartons, and would get thousands of these weekly, but these days much less. But there was a time that we would get many collected for our recycling effort. In the late ‘90’s to the mid 2000’s Trees for Canterbury grew plants as part of a promotion by the milk company Meadowfresh, where young people were encouraged to collect there empty 1L cardboard milk cartons to be swapped on a particular day for a small native seedling. TFC would grow 10,000 up to over 20,000 plants each year that were carefully nurtured, packed up, transported and given away in various locations around the South Island. We also gave away plants from the nursery site. I influx of carton afterwards gave us plenty to grow plants for the following year. So here are a few photographs from a few years of growing, sorting, transporting and giving away plants as part of the Meadowfresh Seedling Swap! For more information about some of Trees for Canterbury’s history just click on the following link: treesforcanterbury.org.nz/about-trees-for-canterbury/ If you were part of the Green Effect Trust, or were staff or a volunteer and Trees for Canterbury, we would love to here from you; and for you to be part of an event to mark the 25th anniversary next year. So please get in contact. For more information about the 25th anniversary just click on the following link: treesforcanterbury.org.nz/25th-anniversary/
Posted on: Sat, 29 Nov 2014 23:15:04 +0000
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