by Cimino | 27 Mar 2011 | Establishment trials
The preceding two days’ weather had precipitated a trickle of apologies. However the day dawned as fine as the forecast charts, stemming what otherwise might have become a flood of cancellations, and vindicating the decision to charter a bus. With the relief that...
by Cimino | 31 Mar 2010 | Establishment trials, Report to the Sustainable Farming Fund
Open-ground indigenous plants establishment trials Aotearoa leads the world in radiata pine forestry. It also leads the world in radiata pine forestry nursery practices. Consequently, it is surprising that indigenous nursery practices have failed to piggyback on the...
by Cimino | 13 Jun 2009 | Pioneering
Unintentionally, it had bordered on false advertising. To offer to prospective planters the prospect of discussing their interest in indigenous plants with one of Aotearoa’s most interesting tree scientists, Dr David Bergin. However the volunteer who was bursting with...
by Cimino | 2 Jun 2009 | Open-ground, Regatta 2060
It presumably was not the sentiment Rod Oram had intended to invoke in his audience: This is all quite depressing! Oram had begun his Urban Design and Auckland Governance talk by quoting an undisclosed inside source claiming cabinet to have been in disarray over the...
by Cimino | 26 May 2009 | Establishment trials
Corrected 13 April 2014 Six thousand, two hundred and forty trees measured. To be precise, some were not so much measured, as their death or absence noted. Even so, research technician Michael Bergin took more than 18 000 measurements, the cack-handed editor’s...
by Cimino | 12 Nov 2008 | Establishment trials
Key advice leading to the open-ground project came from a person with no interest in open-ground methods whatsoever. It began with a silver-bullet mission: Could harakeke, produced in bulk and planted at every opportunity, provide a nurse crop whereby seed-defecating...
