Wednesday, May 8, 2019 Lifestyle Wairarapa Midweek
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GREYTOWN
PINEHAVEN KEEPS GREYTOWN’S FRUIT GROWING TRADITION ALIVE When you buy apples – and many other fruits – at Pinehaven’s shop just north of Greytown you can be certain they were home-grown. Pinehaven Orchards marked its 104th anniversary this year and is still owned and operated by the Meyrick family. It grows and sells many Kiwi classic varieties including Gala which was first discovered in one of its orchards, along with 11 other varieties of apples. Pinehaven Orchards grows six varieties of pears, stone fruit including nectarines, plums and peaches, berries, and some vegetables. There’s always a wide selection of other fresh fruit and vegetables in store, as well as some gourmet foods, and basic groceries like eggs and soft drinks. You can enjoy its real fruit ice cream – or some home grown fruit – in the picnic area beside the shop which is open 8.30am to 5.30pm every day.
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Silhouette of kahikatea – New Zealand’s tallest tree.
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Arbour Day: Wairarapa Day? The first Arbor Day celebrated in New Zealand in the year 1890, was here in Wairarapa, in Greytown specifically. The speeches were bicultural with the mayor sharing the podium with two prominent chiefs, Tamahau Mahupuku and Tunuiarangi. At a time when bicultural interventions were the exception rather than the norm, the subject of the joint up thinking was the natural environment. There were issues like Tunuiarangi’s hope that the future trees to be planted would be natives rather than the exotic conifers, but differences are now historical prompts. Our present and future opportunities can again concentrate on Arbor Day. This year Arbor Day is on June 5, the same day as the world environment day. The environmental opportunities in trees are recognised now through the government’s plan for One Billion Trees as a part of regional development. Wairarapa was not a surge or priority area, but the initiatives around
Mokupuna of Wairarapa
Ra Smith trees can still apply to our province. The main focus has been around forests for erosion prone land, an idea the East Coast has had for a while. Trees keeping sediment out of waterways is helpful but is unhelpful when tree planting is uneconomic on land that is more productive with other uses. Tree planting is not just forestry and the One Billion Trees initiative has other options and one of these is partnership. The joint up thinking can ask innovators to work with researchers, industry, wider communities and iwi. I have such faith in our innovators that I think they can bring a wider use to trees, including economic returns on investment. Some current research includes trees in wetlands as nutrient reducers; trees reducing pathogens with their roots; trees in food
forests; trees in medicinal options; trees supporting vineyards and many other options. All of these support economic bottom lines. Then, there is the beauty trees give our environment. It was one of the reasons Greytown took on the first Arbor Day. Renewing Arbor Day celebration with energy for Wairarapa is something the whole of Wairarapa can take on. It’s interesting to me that our nation’s tallest tree, Kahikatea, grows in some of our most unstable land, wetlands. The lesson for me is that they grow best in clumps as the roots intertwine to support each tree, especially trees on the outside. June 5, 2019 is a date for our community to celebrate our roots. Put it in your calendar so you can plant some trees.
Ventana on the move Gianina Schwanecke
After three years at their iconic blue shop front on Kitchener St, Martinborough’s Ventana Creative Collective is on the move and under new leadership. The creative collective opened in June 2016 under director and owner Auriga Martin, with the front shop selling a range of locally produced artworks and gifts, and a workshop room out back displaying local artists’ works. Martin announced her plans to step down in March, with plans to hand over to regular
exhibitionist and artist Bec Reilly. “With winter on its way we’d like to share some exciting news with you, as the seasons are changing so too is Ventana next month,” she said. “Part of the change to new ownership will also be a change of location where we will be saying goodbye to the Kitchener St space. “Ventana is now going bigger with multiple venues throughout town.” Workshops will now be popping up in several venues around town, including Luna Estate Winery, with Ventana’s new home base being
located at 20 Jellicoe St. “I’m proud to look back on several full years of sparking creativity and joy for our community as well as creating a platform for small artisan businesses local and abroad,” Martin said. Ventana Creative Collective is holding one last exhibition at its Kitchener St gallery to say goodbye. • The Martinborough Makers Exhibition includes work from several local artists including potters, painters, sculptors and jewellers. • It will run until May 12.