Native Forest Systems is a leading-edge approach to landscape-scale forest restoration. Queen Elizabeth Park and Battle Hill Farm Forest Park have collectively had tens of thousands of natives planted in them in 2019 using this new approach and we have a lot more planned for 2020 (if the COVID-19 situation allows for it).
A new native forest planting system is helping Greater Wellington Regional Council achieve its biodiversity and climate change goals.
What costs might pastoral farmers be up for and how can they manage their risk? An information brochure summarises four years of work on modelling GHG and cash flows for a range of dairy and sheep and beef farms. The work has been done in conjunction with a number of research partners through a number of projects, including for the New Zealand Agricultural Greenhouse Gas Research Centre (NZAGRC). It also discusses …
Groundtruth Ltd have produced a guide to constructing wetlands on farms in conjunction with Sustainable Wairarapa Incorporated. Dairy NZ and Pamu supported a Sustainable Farming Fund project which assessed the cost-benefit of various on-farm activities for removing contaminants from waterways and improving biodiversity. Monitoring over the last 3 years has shown that a wetland can be very cost-effective at removing nitrogen from farm drainage water. If you are interested to learn …
Dairy farm laneways adjacent to drains pose a risk as a potential source of contaminants to water. Laneways represent locations with large amounts of effluent loading. Furthermore, cow movement across a laneway of compacted gravels is likely to mobilise fine sediment, increasing the possibility of transport into waterways via runoff during rainfall events. Despite the risk of contaminant losses from laneways to nearby waterways, few studies have quantified the effects of …
News media release 04 July 2018 A long-held dream to return large parts of Queen Elizabeth Park to a forest of native plants and animals will be one step closer this week when a ground breaking new approach to planting starts. “This is the beginning of a green transformation we’ve visualised for a long time and have been planning for many months. It includes a planting system we’ve successfully trialled to deliver better …
The SmartFarms app lets farmers track their environmental performance and provides data to prove the quality of their farm environment is improving. Read the article and listen to JP being interviewed on Country Life.
Aongatete Coolstores Ltd has been working with Zespri to demonstrate the opportunities for growers, packhouses and marketers which may be available from improved product tracking. The research programme records where bins are filled within orchard blocks and links fruit quality data from the grading system with that location. Last year the concept was proven with a few orchards while this year a big effort has gone in to see how it …
Congratulations to all those involved in the fantastic achievement of winning the Green Ribbon Award 2016 for “Protecting our Biodiversity”. Groundtruth has been involved with this exciting project for some years. Collaborative and innovative, the Uawanui Project has taken a whole-community approach to improving the environmental health of the Kaituna Estuary, by managing the activities in the catchment that impact on the estuary – a “mountains-to-sea” approach. Input from marae, iwi, …
It’s been three years on air and it’s going from strength to strenth. Groundtruth is very proud to be able to support our very own local community radio station, Paekakariki 88.2 FM. The station features community interviews, news, performances and specialist shows, and, when there aren’t any scheduled broadcasts we transmit live birdsong from one of our audio monitoring stations on Kapiti island! Listen to an internet stream from Kapiti Island or from Paekakariki …