Blogs
What’s new at CUE Haven…
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First Walking Track At CUE Haven
One of our long term goals is to build a network of walking tracks throughout the property so that visitors to CUE Haven can explore the forest and find favourite places to relax and enjoy the peaceful environment. Building the tracks was an interesting project. Layout of the track was initially planned by Rodney Straka,…
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Getting the Nursery Ready
Once we finished painting the roof of the nursery, it was time to turn our attention to the interior. It was a daunting task. Although the building looks a lot better now than it did a year ago, it still had a way to go. When CUE Haven was a dairy farm, what is now…
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CUE Haven Nursery Participates in the White Roofs Project
We are nearly finished with the project to convert the old dairy milking shed at CUE Haven into a nursery where we will propagate seedlings for memorial plantings. We hope to make the nursery a focal point for the educational opportunities provided by CUE Haven. To give you some background about the nursery conversion project,…
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Duncan’s Grove
Duncan’s Grove has been formally established at CUE Haven. Family and friends of Duncan Selkirk Welch have planted kahikatea trees at CUE Haven in memory of little Duncan who passed away on 4 July 2010. The first trees were planted in August 2010 and over the past few months, requests to plant trees for Duncan have…
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Conservation Volunteers Working Hard at CUE Haven–February 7-11, 2011
You might think that because most of our news happens during the winter planting season, that summers are fairly quiet at CUE Haven. Not at all! Summertime is weed season, so we are busy weeding, spraying and releasing plants. And there are loads of maintenance projects as well. To help us out, this past week,…
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