Mt Chocolate

Mt Chocolate is being used for a great big experiment to find faster and cheaper ways to establish native forest. Since mid-2017, different ...

Large amounts of seed need to be collected each year to grow native plants for Mt Chocolate. With 220 different species to grow and plant,...

Mt Chocolate was filmed using a drone at 2pm, 23 March 2018. The drone was flown by a friend of a neighbour. Thank you, mystery pilot, who...

Edinburgh has Fringe festival, Wellington has Wearable Arts and Mt Chocolate has Cake Week. Each year from April 4, celebrate all birthday...

A native plant restoration workshop attended by 70 people was held on Friday at the Invercargill Working Men's Club in the morning. A ...

Avon Peters Photo by John Griffiths Avon is the official Mt Chocolate Site Manager. Much loved by local kids, she patrols the ...

Phil Waddington is the inventor of the DoC 200 trap which is widely used to catch pest animal predators of NZ native birds. There is a g...

Tracy testing the Omeo Wheelchair at Mt Chocolate on 18 March 2019. It handled the tracks easily. Thanks, Shannon Arnold for the bringing ...

Yesterday, Tracy, Avon and I went for a leisurely walk through Seaward Bush Scenic Reserve near Invercargill. This reserve is a small remnan...

Photos taken of plants and animals found at Mt Chocolate are being used to discover what is living there now. We are using a very easy too...

Mt Chocolate is the name given to a 10,000 square meter paddock (1 Ha, or 2.5 acre). Located on the edge of town in semi-rural Clifton, a...

Mt Chocolate has a native plant nursery to propagate and grow 220 different species to plant at Mt Chocolate over time. The nursery does no...

Part of creating Mt Chocolate has been constructing a private access way in from Severn St to the future house and art studio. This road is ...