Jean Malpas Community Nursery

Our Community Nursery is the heart of our operations. Each year our volunteers propagate and grow approximately 10,000 native plants to support reforestation efforts at our planting sites. 

Spring Volunteering Hours: 

Wednesday mornings 9am – 12.30

Location: Jean Malpas Community Nursery, Poplar Drive, Kelvin Heights.

All welcome, no experience necessary.

Morning tea provided 

Drop in when suits

Community Planting Days 

Each spring and autumn we invite our community to help plant native trees and shrubs at our keystone sites. Since 2015, we have planted over 140,000 natives throughout the Whakatipu Basin.  Our sites are thriving examples of successful ecological restoration, providing habitat and food for native birds, insects and invertebrates.

Spring planting dates for the calendar

Saturday 12 September – Whitechapel Reserve
Saturday 19 September – Slopehill Reserve
Saturday 26 September – Jardine Park (+ BBQ at Jean Malpas nursery)

Thursday 22 October – Industry Planting Day with our partners QLDC, Love Queenstown and Skyline. 

Session 1: 9 – 12pm

Session 2: 1 – 4pm

Register at loveqt.co.nz

Latest News

9th September 2026

Nature’s odd couples

Audrey Austin, Youth Trustee for Whakatipu Reforestation Trust breaks down some of the most interesting inter-species partnerships helping to hold our alpine ecosystems together.

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27th July 2026

Monitoring a secretive species in Queenstown’s wetlands

Audrey Austin, Youth Trustee for Whakatipu Reforestation Trust It’s likely more people have seen a wild kiwi than a marsh crake, but what might a new project monitoring this species show us about our wetland health and restoration? With winter… Read more »

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11th November 2025

One hundred thousand trees and counting

A beautiful piece on Neill and Barb Simpson by Georgia Merton for Patagonia New Zealand.

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Our Supporters

We would not exist without the amazing support from organisations and individuals who support us financially and through volunteer hours.

DOC
QLDC
Trees That Count
Queenstown Airport
Jean Malpas
Leslie Hutchins Conservation Foundation