Open Days - January 2021
Looking for something to do these Christmas Holidays?
Caccia Birch House is open for viewings this January 2021 - Free Event!
- Week one - Tuesday 5 Jan through to Friday 8 Jan, 11am - 3pm each day.
- Week two - Monday 11Jan through to Friday 15 Jan, 11am - 3pm each day.
Pack a picnic and fold up the picnic blanket before heading to Caccia Birch House.
After chilling out on the lawn among the Tui and the Kererū come into Palmerston Norths' Listed Category 1 Historic Homestead to marvel in the Heritage features including the handcrafted rimu timber paneling and amazing four-metre high ceilings.
If interested in the history, the Coach House Archive will also be open with displays on the history, past owners and how the house was rescued from dereliction and destruction in the eighties and brought back to life in the nineties.
If you are planning on holding a wedding or a special event, feel free to approach our friendly staff for a chat or pick up one of our brochures from the foyer.
Extensive care has gone into the preservation of the buildings and gardens - so we love to share the experience of yesteryear with visitors, we look forward to seeing you here.
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DOC is rolling out a new tool to help figure out what to tackle first when it comes to protecting our threatened species and the things putting them at risk.
Why does this matter? As Nikki Macdonald from The Post points out, we’re a country with around 4,400 threatened species. With limited time and funding, conservation has always meant making tough calls about what gets attention first.
For the first time, DOC has put real numbers around what it would take to do everything needed to properly safeguard our unique natural environment. The new BioInvest tool shows the scale of the challenge: 310,177 actions across 28,007 sites.
Now that we can see the full picture, it brings the big question into focus: how much do we, as Kiwis, truly value protecting nature — and what are we prepared to invest to make it happen?
We hope this brings a smile!
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