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...
Hidden Herpetofauna within Delightful Dunes
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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...
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...
A holiday on Aotea/Great Barrier
Keeping it local! Going on a holiday with your workmates who you literally spend about 90% of your waking hours with might seem like a pretty crazy...
Rural Design Ecology 2019
Rural Design is a leading ecological practice based in Kaiwaka, offering expert consultancy services in land restoration, ecology and landscape...
Seed collection in full swing at Rural Design
Rural Design is hard at work collecting seed for 2018 and the 2019 growing season. Ecologists Heath Worsfold and Jack Warden have been investigating...
Toetoe or Pampas?
Pampas (Cordaderia selloana) is a plague on the northern landscapes of New Zealand. Often confused for the native plant Toetoe (Austroderia) , which...