Post by Kāpiti Coast District Council

Throwback to sunnier days! A few #FromtheFieldFriday's ago, we headed along to Pharazyn Reserve with our friends from Waikanae School and Kapakapanui School to celebrate 20 years of planting at this special spot 🌱 Over the past two decades, more than 2,000 local school kids and community members have rolled up their sleeves to help plant over 40,000 trees in this space, including ngaio, kānuka, mānuka, harakeke and tī kōuka. This year, around 150 tamariki helped to carry on this tradition. Pharazyn Reserve is part of the Te Harakeke Wetland Complex, the largest dune swale wetland still in a relatively natural state on the coastal plain of the Foxton Ecological District. It's also the largest and most intact remnant of 'The Great Swamp', which once stretched across more than 9,200 hectares of the Kāpiti Coast. Twenty years of little hands doing big mahi for our wetlands!

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