Farmer buy in helping drive success of Pomahaka plant project
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Habitat Restorations Aotearoa employee Jen Cook protects one of about 100,000 new native plants, forming part of the Pomahaka Corridor Planting Project, near Tapanui earlier this spring. Photo: Richard Davison
An award-winning, farmer-led water quality project in West Otago marked a significant milestone recently, when its latest riparian planting initiative notched up 100,000 new natives embedded in the banks of the district’s on-farm waterways.
Richard Davison talks to project leaders, and to ‘‘boots on the ground’’ doing the hard yards on the $3.7 million Pomahaka Corridor Planting Project.
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