17 Sep 2024

Nelson parks supervisor transforms reserves with edible plants

From Checkpoint, 4:25 pm on 17 September 2024

After forty years and a million trees and shrubs planted, a dedicated parks superviser has retired from the job, leaving Nelson a veritable feast of flora, literally. Peter Grundy has quietly transformed the regions parks and reserves with natives and pickable plants, meaning people can graze from apple, nut and even carob trees. If you do the maths he's supervised the planting of about 25,000 trees a year or 68 a day, he spoke to Lisa Owen.