Maire Stream Nurturers

Maire Stream Nurturers Welcome to Maire Stream Nurturers Community who have passion & compassion for their local nature. The vision is to plant an edible landscape.

If you are interested in helping take care of the natural flora & fauna of the Maire Stream gully, come and join Us at the Working Bees. 2nd Sun of the month Working Bees are a great opportunity to get together and nurture this peaceful Maire Stream gully. We meet 1st Sunday of each month, 1pm-4pm, to cut back the blackberry, vines and gorse so the native tree plantings have space to grow. Come to

learn and explore about your local environment. Its a great way to contribute and save this mother Earth. We've only got one of them. I look forward to meeting you soon....
Anne Dickinson

March '26 Beggars Tic likes to be close to water and spreads very quickly up and down Maire Stream. This Mint has a vor...
21/03/2026

March '26 Beggars Tic likes to be close to water and spreads very quickly up and down Maire Stream.

This Mint has a voracious habit of spreading across and under the ground making it a very hard one to remove by hand.

Both these plants have multiple flower heads. Bees love them☺️ but birds will spread the seeds of the Beggars Tic which then pops up quickly to spread again.

The Oldmans Beard-this one had been cut and left on the ground. It re-rooted and was growing again. As a vine it can grow over 3 meters in a year, rising up into trees. Flower. Its many seed heads float on the breeze, to land and grow yet more Oldmans Beards spreading over the land and trees. Suffocating what it climbs upon, just to get up to a height to spread more seeds, more vines🥹

Our next trip up Maire Stream is scheduled for 29th March (as Aprils' weekends have become very full. l.o.l.s)
Let me know if your interested to join in ☺️
contact Anne: txt 0274393503

Keeping restoration going as a necessity for hope. This is a changing climate on planet Earth.

10/02/2026

Maire Stream small Kokopu fish. Do you see the larger 7cm Kokopu turn and move in the middle under the littlies 😄at the end of the reel

February was to be a quick fix/w**d of the Celery W**d in part of Maire Stream. Cleared along the bank then up stream wh...
09/02/2026

February was to be a quick fix/w**d of the Celery W**d in part of Maire Stream. Cleared along the bank then up stream where there were some large patches in the stream. To remove this Celery W**d which is at flowering. Next will be seeding which would quickly spread and clog Maire Stream.
Coming across Beggars Tic.
Looking into the water at the brown silty slime that covers the rocks.
A good wee w**d for the morning 🙂

Join Us for the next adventure, Sunday 8th March
contact Anne 0274393503

January 2026. Coming along the bottom of the Restoration Area bank. Pest plants have got away over the last few years. L...
30/01/2026

January 2026. Coming along the bottom of the Restoration Area bank. Pest plants have got away over the last few years.
Lack of focus on this bank area.
Lack of volunteers.
You can see by the wee Cabbage Tree revealed that it is worth pursuing a W**ding Bee across the lower bank area.
Volunteers have been coming across the bank from the left, where the Wee Fruit Forest flourishes. More! obviously has to be done, asap.

Join Us this Sunday 1st February. Meeting at 9.30am at the end of Douglas Rd., Tahunanui (Whakatu) Nelson for a couple of hours.
Bring lobbers, secateurs, sturdy footwear & sturdy gloves. Long sleeves, long trousers, a sun hat & water to drink.

Be prepared for an enjoyable tossell with the pest w**ds.
Satisfying results for your mahi/efforts. 👏😄

Contact Anne 0274393503 or just turn up 🙂

23/01/2026

Though we humans think we populate the entire Earth. There are wild animals as well.

23/01/2026

When white bait evolve from white. Go brown. Grow into native Banded Kokopu fish, here in Maire Stream

Blast from the Past 2019Anne Dickinson and Stuart Slack on a walk-about down lower Maire Stream. Lower Maire Stream ente...
18/01/2026

Blast from the Past 2019

Anne Dickinson and Stuart Slack on a walk-about down lower Maire Stream.

Lower Maire Stream enters a large culvert pipe on the top side of Tahunanui Dr., Travels for over 1 klm under Parkers Rd., re entering daylight at the end of Awatea Pl., pouring out of two of these three pipes.

The one subsidiary that re-enters, is a small stream that snakes across the golf course into Maire Stream.

Stuart Slack was a founding Member of the Maire Stream Guardians. Living at 67 Douglas Rd., was instrumental bringing the suffocating muddy waters, created by developers earthwork movements at the head of Maire Stream, to the attention of Nelson City Council. Developers were Fined $93,000.
That money being used to create a short video, on Facebook, of Maire Stream which included Maire Stream Guardians efforts. That money was also used to clean up the contaminated subsidiary waterway running through the industrial area of Beatty St., and Bolt Rd.,
That subsidiary waterway was to flow into Maire Stream at Beatty St., Tahunanui. But because Parkers Rd., people complained of each having to have a driveway bridge over Maire Stream to their property in ?1940's Maire Stream was piped and this subsidiary continued on its own. Through the industry area of Beatty St., Across under Bolt Rd., Across under Otterson St., out onto the golf course. Ponds. Then back into Maire Stream to continue its journey to the ocean at Parkers Cove, Back Beach.

Stuart Slack, there at every monthly monitorings; spot-lighting and day water calculations. Maire Streams native Banded Kokopu fish, eels, insect life recorded on NIWA WaterCitizens. Planting of native trees. Nurturing our tools and native tree nursery at his house.
Sadly, at a Gr8 loss, in May 2021, Stuart, who lived alone, had a Stroke and perished at home. Leaving our Team and 12 other Community groups he was a Member in, to mourn his chuckle and tender loving nature ways.😌

December '25; We had an opportunity with extra volunteers for a W**ding Bee plus some donated carpet to lay on and keep...
15/01/2026

December '25; We had an opportunity with extra volunteers for a W**ding Bee plus some donated carpet to lay on and keep the track open. 👏

W**ding was done through the Wee Fruit Forest and back along the bankside into the edge of the native plantings from 2020.😄

Also we could see coming in from Highview Dr., the recent grooming of the landscape in front of the 1st Wee Dam. 🤔

Our next W**ding Bee will be this Sunday 18th meeting at the end of Douglas Rd., Tahunanui, Nelson at 9.30am
contact Anne 0274393503 for details 🤗 or just turn up. All welcome

06/12/2025

Blast from the Past.
In 2021 we hired Macca. Who flew his drone over the upper Maire Stream. Focusing on what Springs fed Maire Stream. There are 4. Where are they? Why is Maire Stream down to a trickle?

I, Anne, used this footage in 2021 as part of my presentation/Submission, to Nelson City Council.
'where has all the water gone for Maire Stream'!

It was the water from the 1st Small dam that was actually keeping the Maire Stream native water animals alive. 3 of the Springs, Developers had (and have) taken over. The forth (the 1st Small dam) now, 2025, has a dirt road winding down, crossing one of its tributaries.

Nature needs Us to go take a look.... Will you join me?
txt Anne 0274393503

November-December merge. It doesn't mean there isn't plenty to do. l.o.l.sClearing the path way in. Cutting down a flowe...
29/11/2025

November-December merge. It doesn't mean there isn't plenty to do. l.o.l.s
Clearing the path way in. Cutting down a flowering cherry tree which are notorious for being spread by birds eating the tiny fruit.

We took in some cardboard boxes. In the Wee Fruit Forest there is too much grass in places. The grass needs suppressing and under-story planted.

Christmas is coming, then New Year. Lets continue Our efforts in February.
Contact Anne txt 0274393503 if your interested in helping Natures' health.

One of the fruit trees in the Wee Fruit Forest, an apple tree called Monty's Surprise which is deemed to have anti-cance...
31/10/2025

One of the fruit trees in the Wee Fruit Forest, an apple tree called Monty's Surprise which is deemed to have anti-cancer properties. Looking forward to the apples in a years time 😀

Maire Stream since being channeled by the N.C.C. at this point in time, (beside 67 Douglas rd.,) continues to experienced bank collapse in heavy rain Events.

A Contractor (in orange) cutting back the sproutings from the large trees, Willow and Black Polar, felled 18 months ago.
The clearing contracted by the Coastview Lifestyle village. Then being planted. So far, up to the edge of the wee Wetland Area. 😄

Next W**ding Bee: TBD-To be determined
contact Anne by txting 0274 393 503 if your interested to join in and help Nature thrive in this peaceful valley of upper Maire Stream, Tahunanui

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