Peace TreeWalk 2010
15th - 30th May
We will start once more from the Mountain Valley School, Graham Valley (the spiritual home of the "Peace Tree Walk" in New Zealand), then we will head to Ngatimoti School one of the leading environmental schools in the country and true pleasure to visit, then to Woodstock and perhaps a festival, or at the very least some fantastic music, then through the Dovedale Valley, then link Upper Moutere and Mahana, with another visit to the beautiful Chandrakirti Buddhist Centre, from there we will travel over a hill to Appleby, Brightwater, Wakefield and finish in HOPE (a town but also a destination).
This will be the longest walk in both time and distance.
Peace TreeWalk 2010 schedule
saturday may 15
gathering at mountain valley
sunday may 16
walking to ngatimoti-7.3km
monday may 17
visit ngatimoti school
walking to woodstock-12km
walking to dovedale-6km
tuesday may 18
walking to dovedale school-1.7km
visit dovedale school
walking to hamish and jess(?)-12km
wednesday may 19
walking to upper moutere country kids-1km
visit country kids
walking to upper moutere school-2.3km
visit upper moutere school
walking to mahana school-5km
visit mahana school
thursday may 20
walk to appleby-12.7km
friday may 21
visit appleby school
visit appleby country kids
walk to brightwater reserve-9km
saturday may 22
visits to brightwater community places
sunday may 23
visits to brightwater community places
monday may 24
walk to brightwater school-1.5km
visit brightwater school
from brightwater it is another 7.2km to hope(the total mileage so far being 77.7km)
if the walk decides to go to wakefield as well this will be another 14km
we're gonna walk in peace
we're gonna plant some trees
our contact number is 021 156 3304 but please keep your texting to minimum
Peace TreeWalk Introduction
TreeWalk is a group of volunteers walking from a school to a school planting trees native to Aotearoa and recently also fruit trees. We walk pushing prams with trees, food and gear to camp along the way. TreeWalk walks to leave zero carbon footprint and plants trees to fix the carbon footprints we have left in past. We plant trees at schools with kids after they tell us what the trees are good for and after we sing some songs to each other. All the kids already know what are the trees good for and thus we can just celebrate with them playing music and plant more trees. TreeWalk also spreads the message of Peace and Love giving kids white peace ribbons with a simple request to tie them to their favourite tree with wish for World peace.
Read reports from Peace TreeWalk 2008 to get an idea what is TreeWalk about.
During TreeWalk 2006 we also recorded lots of music which was released as double CD available to buy or
download. Buying a CD you support our next TreeWalk. If you want to do that please email us.
Reports from Peace Tree Walk 2008 in Aotearoa
Photos from Peace Tree Walk 2008 in Aotearoa
- by Tomaash
- more photos coming soon... it is just too many of them...
Instructions before you join us...
come and join us anywhere you like
bring with you...
warm and waterproof clothing
a bowl and a spoon
a cup
a tent
a sleeping bag + mat
a handcart (prams are very handy, you are welcome to use a bicycle + cart too if you've got one)
snackfoods
the Peace Tree Walk will carry some vegan organic essentials but do bring organic fruit and vegetables to share
additionally, do bring musical instruments
at our last meeting a keenness was expressed to walk colourfully so bring facepaints
costumes(walking trees?)
banners, ribbons, flags, all manner of wildness
bunji cords are very practical
oil for the wheels
any information on native trees and fruit trees
...
Contact us
email us to "treewalk at peacemail dot com"
Check out following links to TreeWalks in Ireland and Aotearoa...
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