he locality pre 1900.
Retaining a busy farming family feel about the place, such as leaving dead wood and wild areas.
Planting to encourage native birds, butterflies, moths and insects.
Where possible, planting eco-sourced native plants in suitable locations, such as along the stream-bank.
Replacing pest plants with Plant Me Instead recommended plants.
Providing plants lists to Council, to ensure that any plantings are appropriate to the site. For example, no pest plants, or plants that are too large for the proposed planting site.
Pest eradication such as o‘possums, rats and stoats, as part of the Glenside Predator Free programme.
Learning and sharing our knowledge of heritage plants. This is at community events or through other initiatives, such as the Glenside Progressive Assn. Inc. website and Glenside Facebook pages.
We want to become organic certified.
We recognise our role to respect and preserve archaeological features of the land and undertake this in consultation with Wellington City Council.
We operate as ‘The Heritage Gardeners’. We meet at agreed times as a working-bee, or as a committee at the historic Halfway House. Records are kept of our meetings and decisions made. Donations are recorded and receipted.
Wellington City Council Parks & Reserves Team and the Glenside Progressive Assn. Inc. are our key partners.
We are an umbrella group under the Glenside Progressive Assn. Inc. The Assn. has agreed to care for our finances. The Assn. operate under a Memorandum of Understanding with the Wellington City Council relating to their activity in the Reserve. This requires us to have at least one member of the Assn. working with us and acting as a liaison between the Assn. and ourselves.
Other important relationships
We have a responsibility to maintain cordial relationships with our boundary neighbours. These boundary neighbours include the tenants in the Wellington City Council care-takers house; the Glenside Riding Club and any future lessee or tenant of Glenside Reserve, Twigland Gardeners World, and the Monterey residents, particularly those residents facing the Halfway House and its environs.