Bushtown Christmas Gift Voucher

Give a gift voucher for Christmas or Birthday OR pre buy your Entry Ticket to the 2025 Bushtown Steam Up and Woodchopping Event 8th and 9th March 2025

To purchase Entry Ticket(s)
Valued at $20 per ticket The entry voucher will entitle the bearer of voucher entry to the Steam Up event in March

Contact The Secretary at Bushtown.waimate@ gmail.com
We will forward payment details and process sending Entry Tickets to you or to your nominated address as a Christmas or Birthday Gift

Totara Tree Gift Voucher

As a gift or for your own personal tree and become one of the many Totara Tree Donors and plant a Totara Tree at Bushtown. This includes the tree with a special proclamation planting with a name plaque and framed certificate

An ideal gift for someone special or a family gift
For details to process a Totara Tree Gift Voucher
Contact
The Secretary
Bushtown.waimate@ gmail .com

WELCOME TO BUSHTOWN HERITAGE SITE

in Waimate, South Canterbury

Bushtown Heritage Site is a window into the last 150 years of bushman and early settler communities of Te Waimatemate

The site is a visitor attraction recreating the mighty Tōtara tree forest, showcasing life of the era through bushman's huts and early Edwardian township "Main Street", a working steam operated vintage sawmill and a miniature steam train rail under development

STEP BACK IN TIME TO THE BUSHMAN'S ERA

Heritage Tōtara Forest Planting

The mighty Tōtara was a prized species for the early European bushman who settled in Waimate in the mid 1800’s. They were drawn to the area due to the abundance of Tōtara timber available for the development of settlements and infrastructure in the surrounding regions.

The Tōtara lumber sourced from the Waimate area quickly gained a reputation for quality and was often shipped to many parts of New Zealand as well as overseas.

The Bushtown Heritage Forest Project sets out to recreate the mighty Tōtara forest that once adorned the Waimate District landscape. Individuals, families, interest groups or companies now have the opportunity to participate in this project by planting their own commemorative Tōtara tree on designated areas within the Bushtown Heritage Park.

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