Our news and views
Welcome to our blog, where you will find latest news and some of our views from various members of our team relating to our work and knowledge here at Rural Design. Posts cover landscaping and ecology, interesting info about native plants, tips for planting and heaps more.
Hidden Herpetofauna within Delightful Dunes
For the better part of a decade, Rural Design has been extensively working on the revegetation and rehabilitation of the coastal dune lands at Tara...
From Poor Passage to Steady Streams: A Tale of Tides & Tribulations
We believe in a holistic approach when it comes to protecting and enhancing our natural environment. A major part of this includes restoring our...
Wonderful Wetlands
The new National Policy Statement for Freshwater Water Management (2020) and National Environmental Standards for Freshwater (2020) have put...
New nursery pad update – December 2021
Lift-off 🚁 As many of you know, we have been busy working around the clock to establish a new dam and a new nursery pad on our farm that will allow...
BOOM BOOM BOOM
Our new glasshouse and shade house would not be complete without high tech new irrigation booms to go with them! So recently we had 2 Daros booms...
Matariki at Rural Design
Mānawatia Matariki! Happy Matariki! This year at Rural Design we celebrated Matariki (albeit a little late) with a mid winter hāngi. Our mid winter...
Maramataka Māori + Rural Design
Tēna tātou e te whānau! Last month in conjunction with Matariki we were lucky enough to attend a hui about the maramataka Māori, hosted by our hau...
Aotea in autumn sun
Over the Easter break nearly the entirety of our office crew went over to Aotea aka Great Barrier Island aka 'the Baz' to catch some of the last...
Our Year in NUMBERS
A roundup of our work in 2020 from the Ecology Division 71 hectares – 246 289 plants – 15 km of streams. What do these numbers mean for our Ecology...
Infrastructure for the future
We have recently installed a new hothouse and shade-house at Rural Design to help us build towards the future. The hot house will allow for us to...