by Cimino | 28 Oct 2008 | Establishment trials
Corrected 13 April 2014 Kim Morresey suggested a one-pager might be useful. Having attended the open-ground open day in Taupō, Ms Morresey, project leader of the Mahurangi Action Plan, was acutely aware that the concept of raising plants other than in containers is...
by Cimino | 28 Oct 2008 | Establishment trials
Raising plants open-ground can seem counterintuitive. It is easy to imagine that the best start in life a plant can have is to be lovingly raised in a pot in a nursery, and then carefully planted. But for foresters, raising plants in pots is downright …...
by Cimino | 19 Oct 2008 | Establishment trials
Corrected 25 March 2012 In February 2007, a $81.5 million fund was established to protect Lake Taupō. The strategy was to head off the sort of degradation that Rotorua has been fighting at enormous expense for three decades, and will probably be fighting for at least...
by Cimino | 9 Jul 2008 | Establishment trials
Dr David Bergin is well underway laying out the second and third open-ground trial sites, at Silverdale, using another mile of string and three of his adult and late teens children. The site beside Sandspit Road is textbook—imminently accessible and sufficiently large...
by Cimino | 1 Jul 2008 | Establishment trials
Milestone has become a somewhat devalued word. The open-ground open day at Taupō on Saturday was one of the stages that are termed milestones in the project’s contract with the Sustainable Farming Fund. Some of the milestones are rather minor, but not this one—it was...
by Cimino | 18 May 2008 | Open-ground, Regional parks
Planting day at Sullivans Bay – Think national, act local Sunday’s weather was sublime, as was the planting at Sullivans Bay, on a number of levels. Regional councillor Christine Rose said to the writer on her arrival: I couldn’t resist your email! …notifying...
