Minginui Nursery Ltd

Acceleration of Minginui Nursery

Funding to scale up Minginui Nursery production of forestry grade native seedlings and boost community development. Minginui Nursery is owned by Ngati Whare Holdings, and already employed and trained local people. Ngati Whare has developed a successful approach to getting local people into full-time permanent work through offering wrap-around services, like social and health services. It grows forest-grade podocarp species – rimu, totara, matai, kahikatea, miro – and kauri. It already had a large order book for manuka, kanuka and other pioneer species. Funding will allow the nursery to grow from 20,000 seedlings per year to 1 million seedlings per year.