What's the point?
Does making space for wildlife in our gardens even make a difference?
On Friday I shared how we’re helping ngā manu (the birds) by setting up logpiles in our garden - but what’s the point? Sure, we’re keeping a few more pīwakawaka happy, but that’s not much of a dent in the big scheme of things… right?
It's a question I've asked myself a lot.
Well, last week I had the joy of learning from bunch of talks and events in Wild Dunedin: NZ Festival of Nature. The theme this year was ‘whenua’ which roughly translates to land, or ground, in te reo Māori. There was one whole day full of talks just about soil health (which I must admit I was really, really excited about).
There was one message that popped up time and time again, across different speakers and areas of expertise: our gardens matter.
We’ve got a treasure trove of natural spaces here in Aotearoa/New Zealand (the Waitākere Ranges will always be my favourite) and we're used to our country’s “clean & green” branding. I think we've taken it for granted that our wildlife have enough wild spaces - so why do we
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