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Supporting the community ... Kaikoura Suburban School pupils have been helping out<br />
with planting in awetland at Silverbank Farm, near Kaikoura.<br />
PHOTOS: ENVIRONMENT CANTERBURY<br />
Wetland planting success<br />
The Kaikoura community has been<br />
getting in behind efforts to preserve a<br />
wetland on alocal dairy farm.<br />
More than 50 people attended the<br />
planting day at Will and Chris Boyd’s<br />
Silverbank Farm at the foothills of<br />
Kaikoura’s Mt Fyffe, which is run by farm<br />
managers Shannon and Bonnie Ward.<br />
The attendees included community<br />
members, landowners, farmers,<br />
Environment <strong>Canterbury</strong> (ECan) staff,<br />
the Department of Conservation,<br />
Fonterra, Kaikoura Zone Committee<br />
members, Forest and Bird, Landcare<br />
Trust representatives and Kaikoura High<br />
School pupils.<br />
The New Zealand Landcare Trust<br />
hosted the event, which was held last<br />
month, and is working with the Boyds and<br />
Wards to look after the wetland, as part of<br />
its Managing Wetlands as Farm Assets<br />
programme.<br />
The trust has been helping to<br />
transform aremnant wetland, which has<br />
existing ti kouka /cabbage trees and<br />
grasses.<br />
An island located in the wetland was<br />
previously used for grazing, but the<br />
Boyds have since retired it in abid to<br />
protect the wetland area and the species<br />
of plants within it.<br />
Fencing has been completed around<br />
the wetland and last month’s planting<br />
day helped to get around 850 natives in<br />
the ground.<br />
Avariety of natives were planted<br />
including lemonwood, kahikatea,<br />
pokaka, grasses, harakeke and toetoe.<br />
Sedges will also be planted along the<br />
water course which will shade the water<br />
in the stream, helping with flow and<br />
water quality.<br />
Overland flow paths on the property<br />
flow into the wetland, where the native<br />
plantings will help filter and purify any<br />
runoff.<br />
More planting is planned for around<br />
the northern side of the wetland in the<br />
future.<br />
Agroup of <strong>16</strong> year five and six pupils<br />
from Kaikoura Suburban School, along<br />
with three staff members and three<br />
mothers joined with ECan land<br />
management advisor Peter Bradshaw on<br />
aseparate day to install 200<br />
CombiGuards on the plants.<br />
New Zealand Landcare Trust project<br />
coordinator Tony Watson said the<br />
children were ‘‘real troopers’’.<br />
‘‘They had the CombiGuards on in no<br />
time and were genuinely loving helping<br />
out,’’ he said.<br />
‘‘Some of the Boyds and their children<br />
have attended the school so it was so<br />
special to have them come help out.’’<br />
The pupils learned about the<br />
background of the wetland, benefits of<br />
having wetlands and the importance of<br />
having good water quality.<br />
‘‘It was agreat opportunity to plant that<br />
seed of knowledge in our future<br />
generation,’’ Tony said.<br />
The farm is one of 14 sites between<br />
Kaikoura and Otematata which are part<br />
of the programme.<br />
Environment <strong>Canterbury</strong> and Fonterra<br />
are partners in the programme,<br />
alongside the New Zealand Landcare<br />
Trust.<br />
The programme aims to work with<br />
farmers and the wider community to<br />
provide advice and share knowledge<br />
about the range of benefits both natural<br />
and constructed wetlands offer the<br />
farming system, environment and<br />
community.<br />
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Planting day ... Acommunity planting day at Silverbank Farm, at the foothills of Kaikoura’s<br />
Mt Fyffe, was considered asuccess.
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