A partnership of Wairarapa farmers is a part of a growing wetland restoration movement to build community resilience against flooding, drought, landslides and water pollution. Since 2016 the partnership has been proactively fencing off stock, planting native plants and trapping pest animals to restore wetlands and surrounding areas on Hapua farm. However, restoration work began over a decade ago. The Hapua […]
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Imagine if we could store ALL that water
We cannot control the weather, but we can make the most of it and catch it while we can. Jared is passionate about protecting river ecology and fears without a local community water storage solution it’s going to get harder and harder to balance everyone’s calls on a limited resource. “It’s about the certainty to […]
Dairy industry big guns join forces to tackle nitrogen leaching
Fonterra and Nestlé are teaming up with DairyNZ to expand a promising plantain trial to help improve waterways and reduce on-farm greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. Incorporating certain varieties of plantain into a cow’s diet has been shown to reduce the nitrogen concentration in their urine, which can leach through soil into groundwater. To test the […]
Water Crisis – the wider impact of water poverty
At Federated Farmers, we are concerned that Hawke’s Bay may experience widespread poverty: water poverty. Water management is crucially important for the future of the Hawke’s Bay region. The prolonged dry weather affects our entire economy, it affects communities, and it affects families. Not just farming families, but also the families of people working […]