TE NUPEPA O TE TAIRAWHITI MONDAY, AUGUST 31, 2020 HOME-DELIVERED $1.90, RETAIL $2.20 MASKS NOW A MUST ON PUBLIC One Minute TRANSPORT Gardening PAGE 3 COVID-19 • Auckland starts life in “Level 2.5” • Govt slammed for social media blunder • Opinion divided on returning to school • Surge in India as global cases pass 25 million PAGES 3, 5-8, 11-12, 14, 16 PREMIER CLUB RUBY FINALISTS FOUND: WAIKOHU V YMP PAGE 22, BACK PAGE Keep it simple is Adrian Sutherland’s philosophy when it comes to helping the thousands of followers on his social media accounts called One Minute Gardening. Adrian shows people different aspects of gardening from his own gardens in Kaiti. His videos are short and basic so anybody can learn. STORY ON PAGE 2 Picture by Liam Clayton ‘OUR TAIRAWHITI’ Chance for public to express views on key topics GISBORNE District Council “This is our pre-consultation and an ideas wall,” Ms Thatcher will next month run a series of period and we want to assure our Swann said. LONG TERM public consultations entitled “Our communities that we will have face- “We will also run several online PLAN: A portable Tairawhiti” as it launches early to-face meetings during the formal hui. Big T will be engagement on its 2021-2031 Long consultation period next year,” “The public will be able to log travelling the Term Plan. Mayor Stoltz said. on at given times and listen to district next month Mayor Rehette Stoltz said the “We know our community values specialists discuss issues such as as the district Long Term Plan would be a “crucial” catching up face-to-face and that waste water and drainage, and council updates piece of work to help guide the will continue.” potential solutions.” its Long Term Plan council’s decision-making and set its Chief executive Nedine Thatcher Those sessions will be recorded for the 10 years direction over the next 10 years. Swann said the public could access and available on the council website. from 2021 under “We review it every three years, Our Tairawhiti through the council’s “We are well aware that not the banner of “Our and we’re starting that process website. everybody in Tairawhiti has Tairawhiti”. now.” “It offers a way for people to computer access,” Mrs Thatcher Picture supplied With Tairawhiti still at Alert express their views on some key Swann said. Level 2, the council offers a reduced topics to the council,” she said. “So we will also offer hard copy number of public consultations and The Our Tairawhiti consultation information and surveys throughout drop-in sessions as it follows Level initiative will run throughout Gisborne and the East Coast to 2 guidelines, with online and paper September. ensure everyone has an opportunity engagements as well. “It will include simple surveys to have their say.” Tairāwhiti? 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Meanwhile, Tokararangi claimed the Ngati Porou East Coast club rugby title with a 13-12 win over TVC at Te Araroa on Saturday. Rapata Haerewa’s superb second-half conversion from near the sideline proved the difference. More on the Poverty Bay semifinals in Herald Sports. East Coast final match report in tomorrow’s Herald. FINAL HERE WE COME: Waikohu winger Shannon Cameron heads to the tryline, leaving a desperate, diving High School Old Boys defender in his wake in a Poverty Bay club rugby semifinal at Rugby Park on Saturday. Waikohu won 34-0. Right, YMP’s Te Peehi Fairlie throws a Ngatapa player to the ground in their semifinal won 24-15 by YMP. Pictures by Paul Rickard Gisborne green thumb a social media hit by Matai O’Connor Adrian posted his first video in October 2018. “KIA ora from the garden.” Today he has 3746 Instagram followers That is the first thing you hear and 12,715 followers and 11,500 likes on when watching one of Gisborne green his Facebook page. thumb Adrian Sutherland’s One Minute Growing your own fresh, organic food Gardening videos. has emotional and physical benefits, he Adrian has a Facebook page and says. Instagram account on which he posts “It’s relaxing. For me it feels like a one-minute videos educating people mini-paradise. about different aspects of gardening. “I miss it when I’m away during It started in 2018, a few years after he the day. I feel like I have a tangible moved back to Gisborne from Perth. connection to the land. More birds have “Living in Perth and working in the been visiting, too.” mines meant everything I would see was He removed trees around his property red — it was sand and rock wherever to build fences and while doing so you looked,” Adrian said. people walking past would stop and “When I would come back to stare in amazement and ask what was New Zealand and see all the green happening on his property. everywhere, I couldn’t believe it was “I usually have a row of tomatoes real.” every year by the fence-line.” Adrian would spend three out of four He recalled before setting up One weeks in the Australian desert, coming Minute Gardening, one particular guy home to his mother’s house in Tolaga telling him he would love to learn how to Bay every Christmas. grow tomatoes. In 2016, he had a moment of “It was one of those moments where I DIG THIS: realisation. Adrian Sutherland set up a gardening advice Facebook page and felt I had to help these people get over “I was pruning my mother’s feijoa tree Instagram account called One Minute Gardening after converting the lawn at his their fear of failure. and I thought to myself ‘could this be a house into fruit and vegetable gardens. He left working in the mines in Perth to pursue “A lot of people just don’t know how to job? Could I garden for work?’ his passion for gardening. Picture by Liam Clayton grow kai. I wanted to help people with “She told me about how she was absolutely zero experience. paying someone $60 to mow her lawns any sort of yard work. a minute of the video with instrumentals “Plant one tomato plant and start from and how many customers they had. I Around the same time he decided to and prompts to subscribe to their there. Who knows? Maybe they might was shocked. It made me realise I could turn the lawn on his Kaiti property into YouTube channels, then provide indepth grow more.” make this into a job.” a fruit and vegetable garden. information on gardening that was “too He has helped a few people in the Adrian had wanted to move back to “Why do we have lawns? I’m not a cow, much to digest at once”. community learn how to garden and Gisborne for a while — he went to Perth I can’t eat grass,” he said. He thought why not make short and they now have gardens similar to his. in 2009 — but he did not want to work He converted his simple videos. “It’s about teaching people simple in forestry. backyard, the lawn along “I wanted it to be easy things so they can grow in confidence.” He returned to Perth and promptly the side of his house, the I want to appeal to digest. I know I have He also gardens by maramataka — the quit his job. His workmates asked ‘why front lawn and even the ‘to the ones who are a short attention span so Maori lunar calendar — but “once again are you going back to Gisborne? There’s grass verge into fruit scared to try it I was sure others would, I keep it really simple”. nothing there’. and vegetable patches, or too,” he said. “I want to give people just enough He replied: “I’m going back to garden.” varieties of fruitbearing —Adrian Sutherland’ “I can go more indepth information that if they find they have “Everyone was so shocked when I said trees. about stuff but I don’t a passion for it they can take it further that.” After a couple of want to be that guy. I themselves.” Adrian returned to Gisborne in 2016 years he decided to set up social media just want to keep it simple. and bought the tools he needed to start accounts under the name One Minute “My whole idea is about introducing ■ To check out Adrian’s One Minute his own business. Gardening. He was inspired partly out of people to the idea of gardening. I want Gardening go to www.facebook. He advertised in the Eastland Trader frustration from watching videos online to appeal to the ones who are scared to com/oneminutegardening and www.