The Nest

03/12/2025

The Nest is open to view and visit this Sunday at 1pm.

29/11/2025

Well... It's official. This magical little piece of mother earth is open for someone else to enjoy. We thought we would share the love and let someone else enjoy this space as much as we have.

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04/03/2025

9 months later and The little Nest is born. Biggest shout out to Nic for the tireless hours, amazing skills, and phenomenal motivation and energy to bring this creation to life. Respect 🙏 he is a machine. Grateful he is an active relaxer! Though I look forward to hibernating this winter and slowing down.

Risky project trying to bring all these creative colors and twists together but it was fun. It felt good to step outside the square, do something different and bring a bit of Shazam to an otherwise rectangular box and some "Ka-Pow!" to life.

And soon it will be available for others to step outside the box too and enjoy some time away in this inspiring and creative space. The Little Nest Air bnb available soon.

The pics do not do it justice, but it gives a little taste 😋 more pics to come but we just realized we finally got to the end on Sunday night!

02/03/2025

09/07/2024

This is what success looks like for me. All home grown, raised and made with love. All of it perfectly imperfect. I'm still trying to master a good gluten free scone if anyone has tips!

It has been a long time getting to this stage and still a way to go for sure. I was saying to the kids today when we sat down to breakfast that for me, that was success...sitting down to all our own food. Bacon and eggs raised by us, home made sour dough with home made and grown tomatoes, capsicum chilli sauce. Home made scones for lunch with jam made by our own plums. Home grown roast pork, home grown and made lamb curry and home made flat bread and smoothies full of our own fruits.

I then asked the kids what success would be for them. Rio had a lot of "wishes".

I was then able to explain to them that for us to get to this plate of food in front of us, to this moment of success, it has been allot of hard work, patience, perseverance, sacrifice, time, learning and passion. But that this is how you get success. Not from just wishing and wanting something. That success isn't instant. That it can come in many ways. It was a great lesson for them.

We cannot wait to see 5 years from now what we are producing! Definitely a long patient game this one though. With a few extra challenges thrown in along the way. But gosh, the rewards are soooo satisfying. There really is nothing much better for me than being able to produce our own food for our family.

Now time to kick off the real vege garden! Watch this space!

05/04/2024

The kids are down on Seaforth Rd by the swings and public toilets Selling produce. All spray free with no extras ❤️. Home grown bananas, figs, feijoas and limes. All Koha. 🌟

They would love some visitors!!

04/12/2023

Want to come hang out with us at The Nest over summer?

and .nest.waihi.beach have our popular, unique and super special Nature Kids Holiday Programme running during the summer school holidays with a bonus extra session on the 21st Dec to help parents out with the juggle when school closes but work continues! As well as every Wednesday through January!

To see all the dates, find out more info and book your space please visit www.naturelibrary.co.nz

19/11/2023

So many super cute new friends we have .nest.waihi.beach !! ❤️
nest.waihi.beach
And will be providing our super special space in Nature over the summer holidays for your children to grow, explore, be nurtured, create and thrive.

We are excited to offer and extra day just to help out families in the build up to Christmas while school's are closed.

So we have spaces open now for Thurs 21st Dec!! You can register and book online here www.naturelibrary.co.nz

Also on Wednesdays in Jan on the following dates:
Jan 10th, 17th, 24th and 31st.

Get in touch now to book your space. Groups will be small so spaces are very limited.

26/09/2023

Meet this week's latest additions to The Nest.... more fluffy cuteness. Just as promised.

One is called Shadow
And one is not fully decided on a name. Frank's is currently tossing up Ash or Thistle.

Nature Kids Club Holiday Programme will get to enjoy all the wooly fluffy snuggles tomorrow!

There are only 2 spaces left for Wed next week. Book at Www.naturelibrary.co.nz

21/09/2023

So there were a few names that entertained the judges this morning. Thanks for all the input!

Cuddly McCuddlington
Basil
And pretzel were up the top

But the girls made the final call and these new fluffy additions will be awaiting many new friends here at The Nest.

Meet Olive and Minty ❤️