We have been delighted to have Bridgette Haldane working with us this summer, with support from Callaghan Innovation. A Hawke’s Bay local, Bridgette is studying agriculture at Massey University. We have a major soil health and soil fertility programme this season. We are doing baseline measurements at the MicroFarm, and we have eight process crop…
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Welcome Alex
LandWISE Board member Alex has changed her role and is now also our Project Manager: Sustainable Systems at LandWISE! Since starting at the beginning of October, she has been very busy establishing trials at the MicroFarm and at eight local process cropping farms. We are delighted to have Alex on board, with her strong background…
LandWISE AGM 2022
Reminder of the 2022 AGM The 2022 Annual General Meeting will be held on Wednesday 22 June at the Green Shed at the LandWISE MicroFarm, 21 Ruahapia Rd, Waipatu, Hastings. The AGM will be accompanied by a free seminar with presentations covering current and future projects and topics of interest. The meeting begins with a…
Non-Herbicide Weed Management
Dr Charles ‘Merf’ Merfield is running an updated version of his non-chemical weed management workshop. Merf is an international researcher on non-chemical weed management. He has 30 years practical and research experience in non-chemical weed management including inventing a range of weeding machinery. Topics covered include: the context of weed management; essential weed biology and…
Bram, our 2022 Summer Intern
With support from Callaghan Innovation, we were delighted to welcome Bram Paans to LandWISE for the summer season. Bram has just completed a B Hort Sci and Massey University, and is returning to undertake Master of Horticultural Science studies in 2022. Bram spent much of the summer sampling the asparagus and process crops we are…