Chatham Islands, New Zealand

Are you spring-time gardening? DOC are back with their Swap Your Weeds For Natives programme and would like to offer you native plants in return for your garden weeds!

A guide for identifying and controlling some of the more serious weeds found on the Chathams has been delivered to your mail box.

We suggest you use wool or gravel sacks, drums or a secure tarpaulin for carting your weeds safely.

For the discerning weedbuster, we have wool sacks and ‘weed attack packs' to give away!

If you need help with identifying your weeds or have any other queries, please don't hesitate to phone the DOC Area office 3050 098.

Drop your packaged weeds into the Area Office in Te One 1-4pm weekdays

We will continue to run this programme until all the natives have been given away!

Weeds have the wicked potential to spoil our unique native environment.