Project Parore

14/05/2026

How good are these early morning photos from the crew 💚.

The majority of our plants are booked to be planted this winter. 🌱 We are still keen to see if we can help people with planting between Whakamarama and Waihi.
Planting season June until August. Some sites suitable for September planting depending on the season ahead.

Sing out with any questions or queries. 😊

08/05/2026

More than 120 college students from the Bay of Plenty and Waikato converged on KWKiwi's Matahui Rd orchard today, to compete in timed horticulture and agriculture tasks.

It's the first time the Agri Futures Clash of the Colleges has been held in the BOP. Teams of four were tested on their skills, knowledge and teamwork across 16 different modules.

Here the students were tasked with planning a garden containing both food and native plants. They had six minutes to suss out how to best arrange a variety of species to optimise the growing conditions for each, including the placement of irrigation, and then explain their logic to the Kenna family judges.

Top marks to the kids who thought to take prevailing wind direction and sunlight as the trees grew into account!

14/04/2026

Calling farmers and growers in our Tauranga Harbour catchments! We're co-hosting this Emergency Preparedness workshop with NZ Landcare Trust to give rural communities practical, hands‑on training to prepare for, respond to and bounce back from adverse events.

If the last three months are anything to go by, it's a timely and valuable opportunity.

Places are limited but it's free to attend. If you're keen, register at the link in the comments today. 👇

14/04/2026

Calling farmers and growers in our Tauranga Harbour catchments! We're co-hosting this Emergency Preparedness workshop with NZ Landcare Trust to give rural communities practical, hands‑on training to prepare for, respond to and bounce back from adverse events.

If the last three months are anything to go by, it's a timely and valuable opportunity.

Places are limited but it's free to attend. If you're keen, register at the link in the comments today 👇

29/03/2026

Absolute scenes at the Kids Hunting and Fishing Competition this afternoon! Fantastic effort for te taiao 👍

23/03/2026

Rescheduled Event – New Date Confirmed

Kia ora everyone,
Our Ag-Tech event in Te Puke has been rescheduled to better suit local farmers and businesses.

New date: Wednesday 29th April
Time: 4:00 – 6:00pm
Plus: Drinks, nibbles and networking to follow

Thank you to everyone who registered for this week, we really appreciate the support. If you had a ticket, your ticket has automatically been transferred to the new date.

If you have any questions or can no longer make it, please get in touch.
Looking forward to seeing you there.

12/03/2026

The Project Parore base has been enriched with a large scale artwork. Lead artist, Marino Magee, and project assistant Maka Annandale, have both worked in our restoration crew. How cool to have them both back involved with their artistic skills. Beautiful mahi.

We celebrated the completion of the mural, with Marino sharing the story and meaning behind the elements of the artwork with assembled friends, whanau and supporters. We've positioned the mural facing the main road so everyone can get a glimpse.

We are very grateful to the amazing folk at Creative Bay of Plenty - Te Waka Auaha Toi whose funding made this possible and the generous team at Dulux for their quality paint.

Thank you to everyone who joined us last night.

05/03/2026

This is an amazing event and we're stoked to be supporting it. We were gobsmacked by the number of possums caught last year: a win for our environment and a cool experience for the kids too. Can't wait to do it all again!

🐰🎣 𝐆𝐄𝐓 𝐑𝐄𝐀𝐃𝐘, 𝐁𝐀𝐘 𝐎𝐅 𝐏𝐋𝐄𝐍𝐓𝐘 𝐊𝐈𝐃𝐒! 🎣🐰

The ultimate outdoor adventure is back – and it’s going to be BIGGER than ever!

The Kids Hunting & Fishing Competition is happening Friday 27th – Sunday 29th March across Tauranga ~ Katikati ~ Waihi, and it’s packed with excitement from start to finish!

💥 $10,000 worth of prizes up for grabs!
🎁 First 200 entries score a goodie bag!
🎟️ Cool raffles + so many prizes to be won!
💲 Only $15 per child
👧 Open to kids 15 years & under

What can you enter?
- Possums
- Rabbits & Hares
- Magpies
- Snapper, Kahawai, Trevally, Kingfish, Spotty & Piper

Whether your kids are keen hunters, fishing fanatics, or just love getting outdoors and giving it a go – this is their chance to explore, learn new skills, and have an absolute blast doing it!

Round up the family, gather your mates, and make a weekend of it. Adventure, fresh air, and epic prizes are waiting! 🌿🔥

Tag your crew and get those entries in quick - those goodie bags won’t last long! Email us for information and registration to secure your spot 🙌 [email protected]

Massive shout out to our platinum sponsors!
Grace Anderson - Bower Real Estate Katikati I Out of the Wild Petfood I Project Parore I Marshall Innovations

12/02/2026

We had the pleasure of a visit to our base from the winner of our 'Guess how many trees' competition we ran at the Katikati A&P show. Wikitoria and her whanau were super keen to see our nursery and collect their prize in person. These amazing locals are into trees as much as we are, and know how to care for these specimens until planting season rolls around. In case you were wondering: there were 595 plants on the site at the show. Wikitoria made a very calculated estimate of 597! 🌱🪴🌳👍😁

06/02/2026

We 🩵 partnering with organisations that share our kaupapa, and the Powerco peeps have now worked on restoration planting with us on two different sites. Looking forward to what we do togther in 2026!

🌱 Did you know Powerco has a Replant for Tomorrow programme?

When trees grow too close to power lines, our vegetation crews sometimes need to remove them to keep the network safe and reliable. That’s where Replant for Tomorrow comes in - helping us support native planting projects across our network footprint.

Over the past five years, Replant for Tomorrow has helped us replant more than 20,000 native trees and shrubs - alongside some pretty incredible community groups, like Project Parore here in western Bay of Plenty.

Together, we’re planting natives where they’ll thrive, creating healthy habitats for birds and insects, and helping our local environments flourish.

Because, while we love trees… we just prefer them not growing too close to power lines (no one enjoys an unexpected power outage 😉).

A huge thank you to our community partners who help make this possible - you’re growing a greener tomorrow with us 💚