Manawatu Farming Lifestyles, December 2022

December 2022 Edition

Top role to create strong partnerships Pages 4–5

Trees and traditions

Farmers raise funds for hospice

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Discovering what lies beneath

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ryan and Helen began with forestry thinnings before branching out into growing their own improved variety.

The trees were originally grown on the family’s farm in the Wairarapa, then cut and sold in Wellington.

Over the past 10 years, the couple’s son Nathan, and his wife, Rowan, have developed a pick and cut business on their Sanson lifestyle block. Bryan passed away just after Christmas last year.

Three hectares of Nathan and Rowan’s five-hectare Cemetery Road property is set aside to grow Christmas trees.

“We plant about half a hectare in trees each year, and have a five-year rotation,” said Rowan.

“It’s quite an involved process. The trees take five years to grow so there are several paddocks of trees at various ages. Pruning is a year-round process.

Every tree is pruned up to three times a year. They have to be pruned at set times of the year to coincide with the new growth.”

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“Depending on the age of the trees, we generally need to keep the stock out of paddocks to avoid damage.”

Rowan said the entire family is involved in growing and selling the trees. “I started selling cut trees from the in-laws’ farm in our three-bay shed when Ryan was only two. Ten years later, the kids are fully part of the business, and we would be lost without them.”

Caring and maintaining the trees fits around employment off the farm.

Nathan works in commercial construction management, and Rowan is a resource teacher for learning and behaviour.

“Time is our biggest challenge. We both work full-time, and the kids are really busy with after-school activities. It can be hard to want to get out on a nice weekend and prune trees.”

Growing trees come with other challenges too. “We had a drought one year and lost all of the seedlings that were planted. This creates issues for four to five

years later as we lost a whole season of growth that cannot be caught up. Sales were rationed for a few years to hold back older trees.

“This year has rained so much, and our soil is on a clay base. The paddocks were waterlogged, and the usual spring growth was delayed, and hence pruning was out of time.

A percentage of seedlings are also lost to hares eating the tops each year. Trees are sold from the paddock on the Sanson property, at Memorial Park in Palmerston North and at the Riding for the Disabled grounds in Silverstream during weekends leading up to Christmas. Nathan and Rowan also have trees available on their farm during weekdays by appointment.

Students are employed to help sell the trees at some of the sites. “We have a wonderful university student that has been helping us for the last four years, Monique Priest. She becomes part of our family at Christmas tree selling time.

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The Wilton family regularly receives photos from customers of their decorated trees

We also have Ruby and Ella selling in Palmerston North at Memorial Park, and Charleigh selling in Silverstream, Upper Hutt, for us.

“This year, we are also supplying families selling in Levin and Manakau, and Cashmere School in Khandallah as a fundraiser.”

Many families return each year to select one of the Wilton’s trees. Taking annual photos of their children among the trees has become a tradition too. Rowan said everyone who visits to buy their tree is

excited and she enjoys hearing their Christmas stories.

“Every customer has their own idea of what their tree should look like, and it is really neat when they find it in the paddock.

What one person is looking for in a tree will be very different to another customer.

“You can plant a paddock of trees at the same time, in the same way, and be pruned by the same person. Yet every tree is unique.

Some grow tall, some grow very wide and some barely grow at all,” Rowan said.

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arah’s agricultural background stems back to growing up on a 1,500-acre Gladstone sheep and beef farm in the Wairarapa. Later, she raised her children on a farm near Bulls.

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Sarah’s lifelong association with agriculture began when growing up on a Wairarapa sheep and beef farm

“Since that first showcase, I have regularly attended both the Horizons regional showcases and the national showcase. Each time I attend, I am reminded of the amazing ambassadors for our food and fibre sector we have among our farming community.”

New Zealand Farm Environment Trust chair Joanne van Polanen is delighted to officially welcome Sarah to the trust.

“We see the value in Sarah and her skills, passion and experience, and feel even more fortunate to have her accept the role of general manager.”

Joanne said Sarah brings an aligned breadth of project and performance leadership, farm investment, asset management and primary sector industry experience.

“Sarah joins the trust at a time when we are working to enhance our network of good practice champions. We are excited to have Sarah build on our role as storyteller on a national and international scale.”

Taking up her new position also enables Sarah to fully dedicate her focus to promoting her passion for the rural environment’s future sustainability. She plans to continue to work in the primary sector, particularly the NZFET wider family, to champion good farming practices.

“I’m very proud to be joining an organisation delivering such value to the agricultural sector.” Working as a volunteer on many occasions, and sitting on various boards, has given Sarah an appreciation for the value of those helping to support the trust’s programmes.

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BY DENISE GUNN Farming Friends of Hospice Whanganui has raised close to $1 million since the scheme began, providing vital funding for the facility.

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ric Weir (QSM) of Waverley came up with the initial cattle-raising fundraising concept to support the hospice. The scheme was established in 2005, just three years after the hospice building was opened by Dame Catherine Tizard. Six trustees manage the project.

Farming Friends Trust chairman Brian Doughty became involved in the scheme around 2006. The former Brunswick dairy

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Hospice Whanganui chief executive Davene Vroon and Farming Friends of Hospice Whanganui Trust chairman Brian Doughty

Farmers and lifestyle block owners can take on cattle to graze, donate cattle for sale or make a monetary donation to Farming Friends of Hospice Whanganui.

Some farmers prefer to supply the scheme with their own cattle.

“We do have donations of calves, lambs and culled ewes going to the works, and we get the funds from that.

We just get an invoice from one of the companies.”

All donors are thanked by the trust for their donations. In the previous financial year, Farming Friends contributed $60,000 to Hospice Whanganui. The scheme has become a critical part of the hospice’s income stream.

These funds have enabled the hospice to pay for clinical operating expenses, medical supplies, practising certificates for clinical staff, subscription for clinical IT systems, and clinical expenses for community nursing teams.

Half of Hospice Whanganui’s annual operating budget is received from Te Whatu Ora o Whanganui.

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Hospice Whanganui’s inpatient unit has five beds available to manage the needs of patients

This year, more than 300 patients and their families will require specialist end-oflife care. Although the majority of patients are cared for in their homes, Hospice Whanganui’s inpatient unit has five beds available to manage their needs.

Clinical staff work in mixed roles across the inpatient and community team settings. This ensures flexibility to meet the needs of the community, covering an area south to Turakina, north to Waverley and across the Waimarino district. Two palliative care specialists share their time between Hospice Whanganui and Arohanui Hospice in Palmerston North.

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Explore other nations’ beats and creativity and widen your knowledge of what makes them beautiful. The celebration captures diversity and entices its audience to enjoy the arts on another level.

The vast range of artisans in New Zealand show how multicultural our country is. The local Kiwi artists include authors Phil Lester, Laurie Winkless, Dr Susette Goldsmith, Michael Bennett, Rose Carlyle, Anna Fifield, Lil O’Brien and Lisa Murray.

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Dancers from Wellington’s Mudra Dance Company will perform and represent its Indian culture in New Zealand. Le Moana will take to the stage with some Pasifika movement.

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by Denise Gunn

With the return of the Kimbolton Sculpture Festival next year, sculptors are encouraged to head to the shed and unleash their creative flair.

Since its debut in 2018, the festival has grown and developed to become a highlight on the rural calendar. Each year, thousands of people visit to view the wide range of entries.

The Kimbolton Arts and Sculpture Trust hopes previous visitors to the festival have been inspired to have a go at creating their own sculptures for the festival.

“If you were a spectator in 2021 and enjoyed seeing all the creations, we would like to encourage you to make 2023 your year as a participant, a maker of your own dreamed-up marvel,” said trust chairman Tony Waugh.

“We dare everyone to try. Being creative can increase positive emotions, reduce depressive symptoms and anxiety, and improve the function of our immune systems. So please come and join in the festival as it is a celebration of grabbing what’s at hand and having a go.”

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Six awards for adults and seven youth awards, with a total of $18,500 in prize money, are up for grabs in the NZ Rural Sculpture Awards. A wide range of classes are available, including the firsttime Have a Go category.

“It all starts with an idea. Why not use some of that stuff that’s lying around your property and put it to creative use,” said Tony.

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“You never know what you can do unless you try. You might even be able to sell your creation.”

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For the past 36 years, Bruce’s Electrical and Refrigeration has earned a reputation as a trusted provider of commercial, industrial, domestic and electronic services in the wider Whanganui region.

Owner/manager Bruce Savage established the business from the ground up in 1986 after completing his apprenticeship with Dennis Fowler Electrical and Refrigeration.

“I had this crazy idea to start my own business. When I first started out, I was fixing VCR recorders and the odd electrical, factory or washing machine repair. It went from there,” said Bruce.

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“We are more than maintenance and breakdowns. Due to the skill factor and qualifications, we cover more than the average electrician does. This includes whiteware, fridges, household wiring, switchboards and power points, and we are available for weekend call-outs.”

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“We’ve got an elderly discount too, and normally give them discount on their fridges.”

Travelling throughout the Whanganui, Ohakune, Hunterville and Waiouru areas, Bruce is often called to repair farmer’s cool rooms, chillers and service cowsheds.

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Bruce’s Electrical and Refrigeration owner-manager Bruce Savage covers commercial, industrial, domestic and electronic installations and repairs

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WATER MATTERS

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Small rural water supplies

Part of the debate swirling around Three Waters reform issues has been the impact on small water suppliers; many of these are farms with a bore or dam supplying two or three dwellings.

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The biggest hurdle for farmers and rural people, which will be thrown up by Three Waters reforms does not concern the monolithic entities posited to run all municipal water amenities. Instead, the issue comes from water safety watchdog Taumata Arowai, which initially appeared to require all water sources serving two or more houses to meet stringent new testing requirements at a level akin to municipalities.

Federated Farmers said that its ‘worst fears about the definition of a water supplier’ were justified after the reading of the government’s Water Services bill.

It was their estimate that approximately 75,000 drinking water suppliers could be impacted, including most farms. The requirements on these suppliers went above and beyond the level of water health assurance recommended for the average rural household in both scope and cost.

“We asked for anyone supplying less than 50 people to be exempted, but in the end, we were not heard,” Federated Farmers president Andrew Hoggard

said. “If water suppliers were able to treat water at the end-point by attaching treatment units to homes, it would not be so daunting. Still, that will not be an acceptable solution under the legislation.”

It would appear to be the outcome of recent changes, which fall in line with the Rural Drinking Water Programme.

It has recently passed into law as of November 2022. While this programme sets standards for water health, it also offers funding to get the job done. A sum of $20 million has been set aside specifically to upgrade water treatment systems for rural marae, kāinga and kōhanga reo. A further $10 million has been set aside specifically for private drinking water suppliers that are notfor-profit in areas of high vulnerability.

The funding acknowledges the historical inequities of access to safe drinking water in rural areas.

Bill Bayfield, chief executive of Taumata Arowai, addressed concerns that small suppliers may face huge monitoring and treatment infrastructure costs. His last day will be January 27

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“In bigger cities or towns, councilsupplied drinking water is treated before it goes into the pipes that take it to your house, but for these small communities who are supplying water, it’s equally important that we have safe drinking water, but we don’t need to treat water that, for example, is going to be used for stock or irrigation or force expensive treatment systems on small numbers of households,” said Mr Bayfield.

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With only a tiny percentage of the surface of the Earth suitable for farming without irrigation, the search for water has been part of agriculture since the very first days of civilisation.

In ancient times, priests were tasked with finding water sources; in places such as Egypt and Sumeria, water was considered a sacred gift, and wells were ordained by a ceremony. It’s very likely that the success of these divinations was more to do with religious leaders knowing how to read the signs of underground water, such as spots where wild palm trees grew or areas that remained green in summer.

Through the Middle Ages and into the present day, many people have sworn by the power of water dowsers, who claim to find underground water with the help of a pendulum, forked stick or pair of l-shaped wires. Some water-finders produce consistently good results, confounding sceptical thinkers, but the US National Groundwater Association opines that ‘controlled experimental evidence clearly indicates that the method is without scientific basis’. Its theory is that water dowsers, like those priests of old, have a knack for reading the lay of the land and that their forked sticks and other tools are props.

Hydrogeologists use science alone to find water underground, relying on

Well drillers can tap into hidden resources and install a bore that will last the distance, but first, they need to pinpoint the best place to drill

knowledge of how aquifers form in porous rock. Sedimentary rocks like sandstone and porous rocks like limestone are apt to hold water reserves, and the shape of hills and valleys will often suggest where underwater reservoirs can be found.

Aerial maps proved a game-changer for

the field when they arrived with the era of flight. Hydrogeologists could trace linear features in the landscape that could indicate fractures in the rock, the edge of different zones of minerals, and even underground streams.

While the specialist skills of such an expert are often needed to drill a successful well in uncharted territory, local well drillers will often have a good knowledge of the underground strata in the area where they work, helping them get the job done through experience more than experiment.

The ultimate tool for finding underground water is thoroughly modern.

Still, it’s unlikely to be deployed to help construct a new bore or well for your farm.

Ground penetrating tomography that fires waves of energy into the earth, and records the signals which bounce back can detect water from far above. Some satellites are even sensitive enough to minor shifts in the planet’s gravity field that they can detect the movement of underground water from space.

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I am the unsung hero of the Kiwi countryside. In concrete, plastic, and in iron, you’ll find me nationwide. Sworn at when I’m empty, but forgotten when I’m brimming. Without my help there’d be no homebrew, no bubble baths or swimming.

If I’m kept from cracking up, or rust, I’m good and watertight I’ll hold more litres than the local pub on Friday night And while you humans quench your thirst with milkshakes from a straw I’m prone to gulp down 50,000 litres from the bore They say I have a belly; well — I’m usually quite round The farmer slaps my side to hear my level from the sound Or looks up, where a floating orange ball provides the proof That through the winter’s storms I’ve drunk the rain right off the roof Now, on that little note, I have some grumbles and some mutters About the leaves and bird-poop which come swirling down the gutters Not to mention mice, and things less nice, you wouldn’t want to drink It’s up to ME to keep that kind of stink out of your sink!

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Sometime’s there’ll come a season when I give all that I’ve got It’s usually a summer — one that’s extra-blazing hot The level get quite low, and that’s the perfect time for cleaning A healthy scrub inside and out; you fellers get my meaning.

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