New home for bees and butterflies

About 80 children from Ruakaka School’s Envirogroup and junior and middle teams have recently celebrated the completion of Honey Meadow – a specially created area for bees and butterflies in their schoolgrounds.

With $700 from the Northland Regional Council’s Environmental Leaders Fund (ELF), they have built garden boxes, planted them with plants and seeds beloved by bees and butterflies, and installed and decorated two plywood butterfly houses.

Ruakaka School is one of 21 Northland schools that received ELF funding for a range of projects this year

Cr Rick Stolwerk attended the opening ceremony.