Showing Plants Love

Written By Kim Manunui

The wet summer has been great for our native plants, the seedlings have thrived!… Unfortunately, so have the weeds. Many of our planting sites have become engulfed in weeds, with our plants smothered or strangled. We planned to have a ‘Show the Plants Love’ event in Valentine’s week and to get students saving plants from the weeds. Unfortunately, Cyclone Gabrielle hit that week and our plans were ruined. We did manage to get one Taupō Intermediate class along with some keen Wicked Weeder volunteers to weed the Crown Park Gully. They had lots of fun finding the native plants hidden under the weeds and freeing them. We also managed to get a Taupō nui a Tia College class to a Wicked Weeder session at the Matariki planting site and a Youthtown group to a site by AC baths to cut and paste broom.

We appreciate the help with maintaining these tricky sites, and the students love getting to hunt for plants, rip up weeds, and cut down towering broom. In the process, they learn a lot about native restoration work and will hopefully take that knowledge with them into their future pathways.

Kim Manunui

Hi, I’m Kim and I work with a great team to help individuals, as well as small and not so small businesses get their message, product and services to the world using digital media and creating wonderful websites that don’t cost the earth.

I was born in Canada, and grew up around Vancouver and the mountains of British Columbia. My love of pristine environments led me to New Zealand and eventually to the mountains, lakes and rivers of the central North Island which is home. My family’s heritage is here, and it’s from here that Korio traverses the planet.

The digital world is never static and neither are we.

And I say ‘we’ because I work with an awesome group of talented people who I gather together as required to complete a project.  Whatever your business, not-for-profit or individual needs are we gather the best team to get the job done.

Collaboratively we are creative, share sustainable values and work hard for great outcomes because that’s the buzz of satisfaction that drives us.

If you have an audience and market to reach, we can make that happen. Creative design, words that work and smart behind the scenes stuff that cuts through the online noise. We’ll design your website and then build it. We’ll manage the content as well as all your hosting needs. We can handle your online advertising so you get noticed,
and we’ll manage your social media presence so you get the clicks, likes and engagement to grow your business. All within the budget you set, because none of this needs to cost the earth.  And the job doesn’t stop when your website goes live. We are your virtual business partner.

https://www.korio.co.nz
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