Makotukutuku — Ancient Cape Wanbrow. The history, ecology and restoration of the cape at Oamaru, North Otago.https://makotukutuku.nz/en-nzhttps://makotukutuku.nz/news/2026-09-1164-for-the-year/https://makotukutuku.nz/news/2026-09-1164-for-the-year/The 2026 planting season reached 1,164 plants — and with the nursery running short, we are buying plants in to grow on for next winter.Thu, 10 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://makotukutuku.nz/news/2026-08-the-thousandth-plant/https://makotukutuku.nz/news/2026-08-the-thousandth-plant/A working bee cut short by wind still passed a thousand plants for the year — and a pair of riroriro were found nesting beside the path, in a weed.Tue, 25 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://makotukutuku.nz/news/2026-08-the-hillside-mapped/https://makotukutuku.nz/news/2026-08-the-hillside-mapped/Around 213 plants went in on 2 August with about twenty people — and the whole hillside was surveyed into nineteen blocks, which is where every shape on this site comes from.Mon, 10 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://makotukutuku.nz/news/2026-07-rained-off/https://makotukutuku.nz/news/2026-07-rained-off/Forty-nine plants went in between working bees, the July planting was rained off, the plant protectors warped, and flood damage closed the Cape track.Mon, 13 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://makotukutuku.nz/news/2026-06-425-plants-and-35-people/https://makotukutuku.nz/news/2026-06-425-plants-and-35-people/The biggest planting day the project has had, on the zigzag below Lookout Point — and four of the planters were between five and ten years old.Mon, 08 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://makotukutuku.nz/news/2026-04-getting-ready-to-plant/https://makotukutuku.nz/news/2026-04-getting-ready-to-plant/Permission to plant, permission to spray, a water tank, and four or five hundred spots strimmed and marked out on the zigzag before a single plant went in.Wed, 29 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT