by waiwebdesign | 20 Dec 2024 | Uncategorised
Words by Yvonne Riddiford On the last volunteer of the year we had a different activity than usual, it involved mixing seed which was then broadcast as an understory cover crop and then planting a number of trees into it. This time we had a very small group, only two...
by waiwebdesign | 26 Nov 2024 | Uncategorised
I had gone to bed with the intention to write in the morning and managed to get up in time to see the dawn, with its rivers of pink and blue, streaming above the sharp outline of the hills in the distance. For me writing has been a way of slowing time down, dwelling...
by waiwebdesign | 19 Nov 2024 | Uncategorised
“I’ve got something to show you” my brother-in-law Rod said to me one morning recently in a low-key sort of way. I wondered what. Turns out he’d shot a hare that morning – no mean feat. He was wondering… very politely like … if Yvonne and I might like to um,...
by waiwebdesign | 26 Aug 2024 | Uncategorised
We have recently had a flood, not a big one by our standards but enough to close the road and cover a large part of this farm for about 30 hours. It was not a real concern as we are used to having one or two floods per year. However this was the first significant...
by waiwebdesign | 2 Aug 2024 | Uncategorised
Words by Jane Riddiford “What you are doing here might make a good story for my programme”, said our neighbour Sally, who had come along to one of our monthly volunteer mornings. In between pulling back the thick thatch and planting wetland trees and grasses, we...
by waiwebdesign | 4 Jul 2024 | Uncategorised
Words by Yvonne and Jane Riddiford I never thought at this stage in my life I would be getting a crash course from my mother on the water cycle. When Yvonne heard we were hosting another field trip by the Ruamāhanga river for the year three class from Kahutara school,...