F3. BUSHLIES FARM

190 Kaimata Rd South, Kaimata

Co-owner: Kama Burwell

Size & type:  44ha dairy support farm

Key features:

• Two years into a multi-year plan to restore landscape and waterways.

• Repairing the local water cycle to reduce drought & floods, restore springs. 

• 20m wide plantings each side of streams.

• Rutted slopes into forest.

• Silvopasture trial with 4ha of native trees spaced over paddocks, hilltops and ridge lines.

• Use of biological fertilisers to support healthy soil.

Talks & tours

Ecosystem Restoration

Join a walking tour of the farm and follow its story from a towering forest in the 1880s into a profitable dairy farm with drained wetlands and erosion, through to a new vision: healthy springs and wetlands, vibrant connected ecosystems, and a resilient profitable farm with healthy happy animals. We’ll be climbing styles, some steep slopes, and covering uneven ground.

• 15 Nov 12.30pm-2.30pm (Sat)

• 16 Nov 2pm-4pm (Sun)

Koha

Registrations opening soon.