During the winter Silverstream was gifted an old building from the Ecan site at Kainga. This single room was the old morning tea room and arrived with cutlery still in the draws and cups in the cupboards. Mike Kwant at the Waimakariri District Council’s Greenspace team secured it for us and since then we’ve been overwhelmed by the help we’ve had to make it useable as the Silverstream resource/tea room. King House Removals helped early on by carting the house the 6km to its ne

This Volunteer Recognition Award from Volunteering Canterbury was awarded to all our wonderful Silverstream volunteers! You all earned this, turning up week after week to make the reserve a better place (and have a bit of fun along the way). The ceremony was held at the Salvation Army Citadel in Christchurch on Monday 15 June. The award was received on our behalf by Leonie and Brian Jackson, along with Charlotte, Richard and Mike who also attended. This recognises the vital r

Wow, what a day. Over 70 of our community showed up planting over 900 plants. The day started foggy, with Richard welcoming the community, and Mike zipping through health and safety briefing before Eva did a planting tutorial. Everyone sprung into action, working for two hours and planting over 900 plants. Such an awesome effort. With our lack of rain recently, we also had the self proclaimed ‘TFWB’ (Team Fill Water Bottles) filling milk bottles with water so each plant could

Special day at the Reserve today. Last week, a volunteer was working in the West end of the Reserve when he noticed two Kingfisher chicks...

If you look closely at Silverstream Reserve, you may spot some of our native wetland species! In New Zealand we have four native rose...

Sunny weather to kick off our first volunteer days for the year! There has been amazing growth in the reserve over the summer, so our...

A huge thank you to everyone who came down to our Community Planting Day on Sunday. It was a beautiful sunny morning and over 500 native...

Our wonderful lead volunteer Charlotte was awarded a Volunteering Canterbury 2024 Volunteer Recognition Award this week for her...

Thanks to the generosity of Nigel Cook, a donation was given to Silverstream Reserve last week, at an event held in the Kaiapoi...

Southbrook School, Silverstreamers, and Waimakariri Council Staff, join forces at Huria Reserve, Kaiapoi. On Friday 29 June, a group of...

Our community planting day this year was a great success. What a difference some extra pairs of hands made! Thank you to all the people...

Groups of 70 pupils with 14 staff from Christ’s College, worked in the Reserve over 5 days, recently. Noelene and Charlotte worked with...

Last Monday, the Waimakariri Cub Group visited to evaluate the health of the stream. These young scientists and leaders, looked at: algae...

Sunday’s group were joined by a group from the Waimakariri Youth Group. Together we finished planting up Area 22. We shared a delicious...

We had the wonderful Student Volunteer Army working in the Matariki paddock in the West End of the Reserve last Saturday. 20 Volunteers...

On Sunday a group of Volunteers planted 100 Kanuka seedlings in the Matariki paddock at the West End of the reserve. We enjoyed a...

A new biota node has been dug out at Silverstream Reserve East End. As soon as the biota node was made, the rains came and the pond...

This week Kate, Heidi and Geoff took small plugs of remnant wetland herbs from the swale and transplanted them to the fen at the East End...

We can proudly announce that Sustainable Business Network’s (SBN’s) Partnering to Plant Aotearoa programme has been awarded the funding...

Our predator control program at Silverstream continues to run with impressive results. For the month of June the East End of the Reserve...