| 41 Southland: Te Tapu O Tane At the commercial heart of the business is its wholesale nursery on the northern boundary of Invercargill Based in our workshop you will find a team of qualitied service technicians to take care of the job, servicing & maintaining all makes & models Service & Maintenance Our parts department stocks a variety of genuine and aftermarket parts & accessories ranging from a gun rack to doors for your side by side, or a heater to keep you warm in these cooler months. Genuine Parts & Accessories In the market for a new or used machine? The team at KB's has you covered. Come and see us! New & Sales KB Motorcycles proudly supports te tapu o tane REGIONAL DEVELOMENT hosts local schools, youth groups, kohanga and kaumātua to explore, connect and partake in all aspects of plant production, including learning about germination, health and safety, eco-sourcing and plant care. Te Tapu o Tāne’s dedicated kaiarahi hapori (community connector) works to provide opportunities for rangatahi to explore and protect their unique local environment. Through activities such as clean-up days, planting events, school visits and field trips, rangatahi are given the opportunity to protect and restore lost ecosystems, traditions and to connect with the land. “We are enjoying the journey, we’ve just set up our central office, we’ve done another hectare of expansion on our Southland nursery, we can hold up to two million trees now which probably makes us one of the bigger nurseries. The nursery grows about half a million trees annually comprising 25 different species which are sold throughout the South Island. Demand has largely been generated through word of mouth rather than marketing. “People understand where their money’s going; it’s going into youth programmes, community development, reducing dependency on Government institutions and it’s trying to create a bit more circular way of looking at things.” Te Tapu o Tāne is currently collaborating with the Invercargill City Council for the supply of plants for an open spaces initiative, and last year was contracted by the council to plant 16,000 natives that were grown in its nursery along Airport Avenue. In the agricultural sector, Te Tapu o Tāne has project managers that work with farmers to help them develop a plan to meet consent conditions for environmental management. “We have a fairly big focus on reinstating wetlands. It’s been really great getting on farms, meeting really passionate farmers and landowners who are looking after their waterways and looking at better ways they can be managing their land. “It’s all about meeting good people, we don’t want to be doing this alone, we partner with good people and a lot of existing organisations in the same space that have been great to work with too. “It’s been great so far, so we are really looking forward to the next year.” As a province, Southland is well organised in the environmental space and the likes of catchment groups and others are good examples of community led initiatives that deserve credit for what they do, Jana says. “It’s not just about people that need a leg up, it’s also about people that are completely confident and capable to lead.”
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