3/08/2022

August Update

Kia ora koutou and welcome to the Here-turi-kōkā update on the progress of Te Toa Whenua.

After a wet and windy August it is great to finally feel like spring is here. This means we can start our spring and summer weed management program. We have just finished the last of our planting and we are getting ready for our manuka propagation in the nursery.

The Te Toa Whenua Predator Control team has been busy over the past month cutting tracks and installing bait stations within the Kaitui Scenic Reserve. With tracks and stations having been set up at Maunganui Bluff and the Native Forest Restoration Trusts' Elvie McGregor Reserve this creates an ecological corridor from the heart of Waipoua at our headquarters to the Bluff that is almost 10km long and joins up with our existing network. We should have this finished off in the next couple of weeks which is a huge achievement and something that the team is very proud of. Once we have this network fully operational the mahi of keeping pest numbers down begins. It is rewarding knowing that our efforts will help to enable the ngahere to thrive

This month we finished off our planting (phew)! What an amazing effort from our Weed Management team who planted 30,000 trees. We will be monitoring these over the coming months to ensure they are not targeted by rabbits and to maintain the weeds around them. Our weed management team are now back on their spray program and will be managing weeds within our active management areas.

Our nursery team have been busy pricking out harakeke that was direct sowed earlier this year. Our hardening off area now has its posts in the ground. We are waiting for a good weather window so we can get the gravel bought in. Once the gravel has been spread we will be putting windbreak around the posts to enclose the area and protect our new seedlings from wind, pukeko and rabbits. We also received our watertanks. It is really important that we have adequate water storage in summer so we can water our plants over the dry months. We now have 60,000litres of water storage to accommodate for the hot months.

We thought we would introduce some of our team who are behind the work that is happening on the ground.

Te Toa Whenua is extremely lucky to be surrounded by some amazing community and environmental groups. We thought for this edition it might be nice to finish by featuring a couple of other groups who we work closely with and who we think are doing some pretty cool mahi.

The first one is Kaitiaki Kiwi Waipoua who are an iwi/community collaboration that is focused on creating a core protection area for kiwi in the Waipoua Forest. Kaitiaki Kiwi Waipoua trap over 5000ha of native bush in the Waipoua Forest. Not only are they trapping such a big area of Waipoua and surrounds but they also do kiwi listening, offer free kiwi aversion training and other advocacy days like a dog de-sexing day.

The second one is Tiaki nga Wai o Hokianga who are a community trust established to assist in the restoring the Mauri of Hokianga Harbour and other catchments influencing the health of Moana Nui a Kiwa. Tiaki nga Wai grow eco-sourced native trees to supply to landowners so that they can plant along waterways, recreate wetlands and stabilize erosion-prone hill country. They have a team who do fencing, planting and maintenance along waterways. Building capability and employment for tangata whenua and community is another important part of their mahi through engagement, education and the application of matauranga.

Both of these groups are made up of people who are passionate and dedicated to their kaupapa, who work tirelessly to improve the environment in our rohe. We love learning from them, sharing our knowledge and growing our connections. We are all in this together!

He waka eke noa.
A canoe which we are all in with no exception.

Enjoy the start of spring.
Arohanui x

3/08/2022

July Update

Kia ora koutou and welcome to the July Update on the progress of Te Toa Whenua.

We are really happy to be only a month from Spring. As this is generally our busiest time. We are usually wrapping up our planting, direct sowing our manuka and starting to fill our bait stations. This is also the time when we get back into our spray program, as the worst of the rain is over.

Over Hōngongoi we have been focusing on planting, track cutting and pricking out mānuka. These are all activities which are suitable to the wet weather we have been having. We do have to be careful when track cutting that we are avoiding areas with kauri so we aren’t spreading kauri dieback.

July is also a great time to be focussing on training and development and completing our coursework. A number of our team have just started a Horticulture Level 2 qualification run through Primary ITO. This course will assist our nursery team gain important skills in plant management, propagation, plant identification and chemical use. A lot of this learning can be done on the job and in the nursery. Our pest control team are doing more practical courses in chainsaw training, tractor and quad use and health and safety. We are excited to be able to use these new skills and share this knowledge with the Te Roroa team and wider community.

We are also continuing our Pest Control course delivered by Landbased Training. Our Pest Control team has been offered some cool opportunities to assist the Department of Conservation with some stoat and rodent monitoring at the Kaitui Scenic Reserve. Using existing lines and tracking tunnels they will get a good idea of the populations in this area. This is a great opportunity for the team to put into practice what they are learning in their training.

The team are going to be busy this week cutting the new tracks in this area. They installed the baitstations and filled these earlier in July and now they are working on making the tracks accessible for the next fill.

In July we submitted our application to grow a trial plot of hemp. This area is currently being fenced off and prepped for planting later in the year. Our māra kai needs quite a bit of maintenance work and we have made a call out for anyone who might have companion plants available to be planted around our current fruit trees. See the pānui below if you can assist. Our horticultural lead Libby has been busy planning the development of this space and we hope in future we will have fresh produce available for the community of Waipoua to enjoy.

On the nursery front we have been pricking out manuka for the next planting season. We hope our new nursery will be completed before spring so we can begin raising our seedlings in there. We are currently working with contractors to develop our hardening off area which we have received funding from Foundation North to complete. This involves fencing, windbreak and a decent amount of gravel. We have also received a small amount of funding from Kaipara District Council for a water tank and the construction of our potting mix bay. Things are progressing with our nursery construction, sometimes not at the speed we would like due to our isolation, but we are getting there.

We hope everyone had a good July and are easing into August. Over August we will be focussing on getting our māra kai ready for a successful spring sowing. August is a good time to start sprouting seed potatoes ready for September.

We just wanted to take a second to thank a few people and organisations for your ongoing support of the project and collaborating with us in July:

• Matty from the Department of Conservation for giving our team cool opportunities to learn and grow.

• Megan from Northland Regional Council for your support of our Pest Control Program.

• Foundation North for your financial backing of our nursery development.

• Our trainers Cam from Landbased Training and Jason from Primary ITO.

• Also, a special shoutout to our newest team member Justin Birch who is our new Weed Management Assistant. We love your fantastic attitude and commitment to the mahi. Welcome on board.

 
We will leave you with this whakatauki that talks to community, to collaboration and a strengths-based approach. It acknowledges that everybody has something to offer, a piece of the puzzle, and by working together we can all flourish.
Nāu te rourou, nāku te rourou, ka ora ai te iwi - With your food basket and my food basket the people will thrive

Arohanui x
Courtney and the team

14/07/2022

Hōngongoi Update

Kia ora koutou and welcome to the Hōngongoi Update on the progress of Te Toa Whenua.

We can’t believe we are halfway through the year already. Time has certainly flown by and we are already halfway through winter. We have made great progress with our planting and are on track to get this completed by the end of July.

It's been inspiring seeing all of the Matariki celebrations around the motu and using this time to think about our connections to the whenua and to each other and how we can come together to look after the land that nurtures and sustains us. We celebrated Matariki by hosting tamariki from Dargaville Primary School and planting trees within Waipoua. We look forward to future visits from these tamariki and hope that they will be able to return when the trees they planted become a forest.

We also hosted Dargaville High School as well as the Dargaville Rotary Club. We were able to run a series of workshops on tree planting, tree identification, pest control and native plant propagation. It was awesome being able to share our knowledge and experience in conservation and seeing how much the rangatahi of Dargaville know about the natural environment.

Our Predator Control team have started working in a new area – the Department of Conservation Kaitui Scenic Reserve. They have installed bait stations and filled these and are now cutting the tracks. They installed the bait stations first so they could be filled quickly. It’s always nice moving into a new area.

Our nursery team have been busy pricking out manuka ready for our 2023 planting season. As we empty out the nursery with our rakau that go out for planting we are fast filling it up with next seasons manuka. Well done to our nursery team for your huge efforts to and consistency in the nursery space. We are attending a Plant Pass Wānanga at the beginning of August so we can continue to grow our nursery biosecurity protocols and practices.

It was a privilege last week to attend a Kaipara Moana Remediation Training based at Atiu Creek. KMR is a huge, large-scale remediation project restoring the Kaipara Harbour through fencing, and planting. One thing we talked about was the intergenerational nature of the project. Just like our project, we aren’t going to restore the whenua in five years, ten years, maybe even a hundred years, but we are so grateful you are all on this journey with us, because we are in this for the long haul.

A huge thanks to everyone who has purchased a t-shirt over the last couple of months. We really appreciate your support and it’s cool seeing them being worn across Aotearoa.

We look forward to another productive month ahead, feel free to get in touch, we always love to hear from you. 
Look after each other, stay well.
Arohanui 
Courtney and the team x
 Waiho i te toipoto, kaua i te toiroa- Let us keep close together, not far apart

8/06/2022

Pipiri Update

Kia ora koutou and welcome to the Haratua update on the progress of Te Toa Whenua.

May was a full-on month for the team with lots of activities, community engagements, prizes and mahi towards our milestones.

We are really excited and proud to announce that we were winners at the Northland Regional Council Environmental Awards. It was amazing to accept the Kaitiakitanga award and to be highly commended for the Pest Control Award. We love these awards because it is so inspiring to see so many passionate and dedicated people in the room who do so much to protect our environment and taonga. We feel truly privileged to celebrate all the people who attended.

The nursery is busy propagating seeds and pricking out seedlings looking ahead to our next milestones and growing plenty of new trees all ready for the 2023 planting season. We enjoyed a visit this week from our friends at Tiaki Nga Wai o Hokianga; they were on a field trip and came to see our operation in Waipoua. Their team is doing great mahi in the Hokianga and were recently seen in the Northern Advocate and were also part of the amazing groups who were recognized alongside Te Toa Whenua at the 2022 environment awards. It is great to be able to collaborate with those who are on a similar waka as us.

It was an honour to be able to attend the Northland Regional Council 2022 Whakamānawa ā Taiao – Environmental Awards where Te Toa Whenua was highly commended for “tackling pests in Waipoua Forest on an ambitious, intergenerational scale, passing on knowledge and collaborating with the local community.” This is a real team effort and wouldn’t be possible without the support and mahi of Megan Topia, Matthew Calder, Tom and Karina Donovan and James McLaughlin.

The expansion of our pest control efforts of Te Toa Whenua and the creation of this new team is leading to a growing area of intensive pest management which improves the health of the ngahere and the many manu that make their home here. We’ve been hard at work cutting tracks, setting traps and installing bait stations and it is great to see the effects that this difficult mahi is beginning to have within Te Toa Whenua and the surrounding Waipoua Forest.

We have also just started some work at Kai Iwi Lakes checking DOC200s and Steve Allan traps. This work is part of an on-going pest control programme through the Northland Regional Council. We started by doing a bit of trap maintenance and now we will be doing monthly trap checks. Hopefully we catch a lot of stoats!

Last month we participated in a LEARNZ field trip to share the important restoration work that is happening along the Waipoua Awa. LEARNZ is a programme of free virtual field trips, helping students access the inaccessible. Kaiako are able to sign up and learn more about the mahi we are doing here!
These videos feature our predator control team, nursery team and others who contribute to the health, well being and restoration of the awa.

Last year we were part of a team who delivered an education programme called Nga Rākau Hauora. From this programme we created a calendar that includes artwork from the tamariki who participated. We were able to deliver these to the tamariki last week. We have some very talented kids in our surrounding communities. Ka rawe!

Over the next month we are looking forward to hosting another two kura as well as the Dargaville Rotary Club. These are always such a great opportunity for knowledge sharing and connection with our community.

Planting season has begun so we are getting ready to put our first trees in the ground. Planting early means the roots have a good amount of time to grow in the ground while the soil is still soft and wet, giving them the best chance for our increasingly hot summers. There is never downtime with our mahi!
We hope everyone has a nice transition into winter, a wonderful Matariki and a chance to connect, reconnect and reflect.

10/05/2022

Paenga-whāwhā Update

Kia ora koutou and welcome to the Paenga-whāwhā update on the progress of Te Toa Whenua.

April was extremely busy for us, which is why this is a bit late getting out to you. Last month we were really focusing on training, development and upskilling our team. We have just completed a ten-day Nga Awa Water Monitoring training and we are continuing our year-long Pest Control Training. It is really important that our team are continually learning and developing their skills. We want to be the best and most effective at what we do.

Last month was so busy and we wouldn’t have been able to achieve what we did without teamwork. Our weed management team assisted our nursery team with clearing our hardening off area. Our predator control team has assisted with painting and water monitoring. The strength of our project is very much in the collaboration and mahi tahi between the different strands of the project, all woven together to create a strong kete.

Our Pest Control Kaimahi have spent 10 days with the Department of Conservation's Nga Awa Waterway Monitoring training team alongside members of Te Roroa Environs and DoC Rangers. We received this training close to the Te Roroa HQ in the Waipoua awa and then spent several days monitoring a variety of different areas of the catchment using a range of techniques and protocols to assess the holistic health of the river. These include water quality testing for a variety of factors such as pH, turbidity, dissolved oxygen and nitrogen, riparian margin assessments, electro-fishing, macroinvertebrate assessments, plant mass assessments and shading.

This was a fantastic opportunity and these skills can be utilised to assess the health of Waipoua awa and help quantify the effects of our ongoing restoration efforts within the valley and of our pest control work through evaluating the health of the riparian margins and the canopy health of the forest within the area. It is always a great opportunity to catch up with our colleagues in DoC and strengthen our relationship and build upon our skills.

The team has also been busy walking our bait station lines and removing many possums which are threatening the ngahere. We are building our capacity to monitor our pest control efforts and in doing so will be able to use this data to improve our methods and ensure we are protecting Waipoua as best we can. We have so far received some positive results from some monitoring done within the Te Toa Whenua area and have anecdotal evidence of the improved health of possum browsed trees. When we have down time we are busy collecting seed for our nursery team and have collected thousands of manuka, harakeke, koromiko and toetoe seed that will go back out on the whenua.

Seeds are an essential part of growing trees and there are many ways to procure seeds or alternatively to buy seedlings already propagated. At the Te Toa Whenua nursery, all of the seed we use is collected by our team, and by other teams within Te Toa Whenua. We are blessed to have a huge natural resource of parent plants to gather from within the local Waipoua Rohe. Once seed is collected it is brought back and cleaned onsite by us at Te Roroa HQ. We follow a strict biosecurity policy to ensure that we are not overusing seed and that we are gathering seed from a wide range of parent trees which helps to keep the integrity of the offspring.

Seed collecting is an ongoing seasonal process but especially these past few weeks we have spent sorting, cleaning and cataloguing our seed stock. This is important because we are able to see how much we have available and forecast for the coming growing season. Birdie Sowter our nursery kaimahi is also our main seed collector and cleaner. Birdie has been out collecting seed over the past few months and has noticed that the seed this season is not as abundant as previous years, stating: “The seed is not as good this year as it has been the last years. Many times, I have gone to collect seed but it has not been ready and within one or two days of coming back the seed has already gone bad or fallen off.”

The irregularity in climate caused by global warming is unfortunately having these side effects where our seed source is at times not as reliable as it has been. With these changes in mind, we at Te Toa Whenua have been brainstorming strategies to counter these effects such as investigating seed banking options and storage. It would also be great if we were able to establish a network of volunteers to help us collect and clean seed as it can be quite time consuming doing such mahi and our team at this stage is still in its infancy and with limited resources. If you have interest in this area or wish to share with us from your own seed collecting/saving experience please get in touch with us.

The next couple of months are going to be very busy, we are filming next week for the LEARNZ digital classroom, we are planning our community planting days and have a few school visits coming up. We will update you on these in the next newsletter. In the meantime, stay safe, take care and look after your teammates in whatever space you are doing your mahi.

Whakapuputia mai o manuka, kia kore ai e whati — (Cluster the branches of the manuka so they will not break)

Arohanui
Courtney and the team x

7/04/2022

Poutū-te-rangi Update

Kia ora koutou and welcome to the Poutū-te-rangi update on the progress of Te Toa Whenua.

The last month has flown by! We are looking forward to some cooler weather and more rain for our nursery and native trees. Less time watering means more time pricking out and sowing. Cooler months also means we are getting closer to planting time, which means all hands on deck.

We couldn't be happier to announce that we have won a New Zealand Biosecurity Award! We were nominated and were winners of the Māori Award. This is a huge achievement for our project and we are very proud to be recognised for our work in this field.

The planting season is fast approaching, and we are gearing up to get our trees into the ground. In order to get our trees planted this season we are planning a number of community planting days and would love for you to join us. If you would like to be kept on a list and updated about when these will happen send us a message.

The Te Toa Whenua Pest Control team have been putting in the kilometres over the past month, establishing more tracks and assisting in bait fills across the existing area focused around the Waipoua River. The team have also been attending training to learn possum monitoring techniques so that we can see how effective our control is being.
The Predator Control team were lucky enough to go with James and his kiwidog Charlie to weigh and measure the bill of a juvenile male kiwi in Trounson. Thanks to Kaitiaki Kiwi and the Department of Conservation Kauri Coast Office for organsing this learning experience and first time interaction with a live kiwi. It is great to see the mahi that is being done in this space and how we are also contributing to the survival of kiwi in Northland in the work that we are doing in the Waipoua.

Over the last month we have hosted a couple of experts in the horticultural space. It has been such a good experience having them in our nursery providing advice and expertise that our nursery team can use in the day-to-day operations of the nursery. A huge thanks to Dean Satchell from the Northland Regional Council and Tom Lindesay who is the former owner of Kerikeri Plant Production for giving your valuable time. We are currently organising a wānanga in solar panels, irrigation and developing a living seed bank as part of our funding from the Ministry of Primary Industries to develop our Horticulture Hub.

We are happy to have a new team member on board who will be developing our horticultural trial plot. Libby Nathan will be doing some work researching and planning a horticultural trial plot as part of the project and the funding we received from the Ministry of Social Development. This will accompany the banana plot we have already established and that are thriving on the fertile river flats. Our main challenges in this area are suppressing the weeds enough so our crops can come up. Welcome to the team Libby!

We also have a few t-shirts of this run still available. All the profit from the sale of these t-shirts goes directly into the project to purchase equipment, gear and for training. They are $35 plus postage and if you would like to purchase one please get in touch.

This week will be the last full week for our Nursery Manager Freda, who is moving on to work in a different space. We will be looking for a new nursery manager to fill this role over the coming weeks. We are certainly sad to see Freda go but we wish her all the best in her new mahi.

The start of the year has been a bit of a rollarcoaster, juggling COVID, isolation and lockdowns. We feel very lucky that we could continue our mahi during all of this, either in small bubbles or from home.
These insecure times have reinforced our desires to become as food secure as possible as we face increases in the cost of kai across the motu. We look forward to getting to a point where the ngahere is thriving and our gardens are abundant!

As always, keep safe, look after each other, and have a plentiful Paenga-whāwhā.
Arohanui
Courtney and the team x

21/03/2022

Biosecurity Award Winners

Congratulations

Te Roroa - Te Toa Whenua, winners of the Māori Award for intensive pest plant and pest animal management as well as native reforestation.

The project represents an opportunity for Te Roroa, partners and the community to actively exercise tangata whenuatanga.

Te Toa Whenua (TTW) is an initiative by Te Roroa iwi for the ecological restoration of land returned to them as part of the Treaty of Waitangi settlement process. It aims to restore 900 hectares in the Waipoua Valley in Northland from exotic forestry to a mosaic of sustainable land uses..

To find out more about all the winners: https://bit.ly/36ATDyY

11/03/2022

DOC MEDIA RELEASE

Waipoua restoration leaps ahead

A project to restore the biodiversity of the Waipoua River catchment and support sustainable land use for mana whenua, has reached a significant milestone with 293 bait stations for possum control installed over 600 hectares.

This was completed by two staff employed through the Government’s Jobs for Nature programme and one volunteer.

Matt Calder, DOC’s Kauri Coast project manager for landscape predator control, says Te Toa Whenua Restoration Project, led by Te Iwi o Te Roroa, has made impressive gains over a short time since kaimahi started on the ground around 5 years ago.

“The 900-hectare restoration of former plantation pine forest is one of the most ambitious in the north – the area is inundated with pest plants and menaced by pest animals – but Te Roroa have done an outstanding job of securing funding.”

In addition to the Government’s Jobs for Nature funding, DOC is supporting Te Toa Whenua through the Ngā Awa river restoration programme by working with Te Roroa on monitoring the rivers biodiversity, researching fish movements and finding ways to improve fish passage.

Te Toa Whenua has also attracted funding from Foundation North, the Tindall Foundation, One Billion Trees and Northland Regional Council.

As well as the pest control and research, the project has another significant achievement under its belt. With support from a number of funding streams, including Ngā Awa, the project’s nursery has transformed from a small backyard operation to a large-scale nursery, providing plants to restore the Waipoua River’s riparian margins and hillsides.

Courtney Davis, Te Toa Whenua project manager, says the project’s name is a tribute to 19th century warrior, Tūohu, who was a warrior and gardener from the local area. The phrase te toa o te whenua (the warrior of the land) is from an oriori (lullaby) composed by his cousin Taoho as a testament to Tūohu’s mana as expert in land use and management of people.

“I’m proud of the intergenerational nature of the project. It’s really cool to have older people training up the younger ones and providing employment for local people.

“Our field supervisor was formerly a forester here. Now he’s restoring the area. The work is meaningful to him because he’s regenerating those areas he was involved in felling.”

Courtney says the project has plenty of challenges. “We’re ground zero for kauri dieback and myrtle rust is another threat, so biosecurity is super important for us.

“The other challenge is the abundance of weeds. Many decades of plantation pine forestry operations have left a heavy weed burden, so two people manage weeds fulltime.”

Courtney says Te Toa Whenua Restoration Project isn’t only about planting native species. “Our vision is to support sustainable land use with local people involved through different enterprises.

“The Waipoua catchment was once a ‘breadbasket’ for surrounding communities. We want the land to become a breadbasket again.

“We’ve started horticultural projects in areas where weeds are eradicated. We’re investigating food production options and one of our first plans is to set up a banana plantation near Waipoua River’s ford.

“I’m very proud of our achievements so far. It’s really been a collective effort that will restore the whenua, so it becomes a high value habitat for our indigenous species and productive for current and future generations of Te Roroa,” Courtney says.

07/03/2022

Te Toa Whenua Update

Kia ora koutou and welcome to the Hui-tanguru update on the progress of Te Toa Whenua.

February seemed to race by and now we are into March. We have some exciting projects starting in the next couple of months as well as continuing to work on our existing ones.

Over the last month we have completed a bait fill over 1800ha and established five new bait station lines. We have grown trees and cleared weeds. As well as this we have started the planning for our new horticultural project.

Since our inception late in 2021, we have been hard at work cutting new tracks and bringing more of Waipoua and its adjacent lands into management. So far, we have cut 32.4km of new track across 651ha and installed 324 baitstations. These areas have been devastated by possums, with large numbers of totara, kohekohe and rata exhibiting signs of decline due to possum browsing so it is fantastic to bring these areas into control to help these rākau recover. We have assisted in bait fills for the existing management area and have begun filling our new lines which has been very hot work, especially when it gets up to 28degrees. It is difficult work across a range of terrain and as always, we do our best to minimise the spread of kauri dieback through good hygiene processes and it is rewarding knowing that our efforts will result in a healthier ngahere. We are starting our Pest Control Training Course this week so thanks to Land Based Training for delivering this course.

As Summer comes to a close we are preparing for the cooler seasons. As much as we all loved the hot summer days and cooling off in the awa or moana, a reprieve from the heat is more than welcome in our space. We have got three months until the planting season starts, so providing our plants with the best care is imperative at this stage.

Unfortunately, this Summer's season we have experienced two major issues that have set back our plant numbers a bit but 'hei aha' we have come out the other end ok. The first issue we have been dealing with in this area is the lack of control over the spread of pathogens like myrtle rust. The second issue has been dealing with insect plagues, in particular caterpillars which have been eating our manuka seedlings. Our team is working hard to rectify by eco-sourcing, germinating and propagating more seed.

These situations are what we learn from and work towards being prepared for next time. That is the nature of working in the environment, it is predictable in some areas and absolutely unpredictable in others. Good luck to all of our fellow plant growers, may the environment be kind to you!

Our weed management team have been full steam ahead this season. We have been both spraying and removing weeds using the excavator. We are excited about using some of these areas for our future horticultural plots. We have been lucky to receive some funding from the Ministry of Social Development to establish some horticultural trial plots. We are looking at tamarillos and hemp as future crop trials.

This week some of our team are starting a year-long Pest Control training course through Land-based Training. We hope with this education we can become experts in our field.
This year has been busy, especially with the uncertainty of COVID reaching our shores. The next few months will be interesting but our top priority is always to keep our team safe. We are lucky to have the on-going leadership and support of our General Manager, Snow Tane and the Te Roroa Board.

This is also a good reminder to reach out to your neighbours and others in your communities, and make sure they are doing ok. These are trying times and we are always stronger collectively.

Stay safe.
Arohanui x
Courtney and the team