Hero activity – Waingongoro Freshwater Monitor Training
The Waingongoro Catchment group held a freshwater testing day hosted by Alastair Cole. One of the benchmark activities carried out by this group is to create a baseline of the stream quality along 15 sites in the Waingongoro Catchment area. This will be done in conjunction with the Massey University lead project to establish edge of field technologies that will reduce the impact of farm managed activities on the freshwater system....
January 12, 2023Hero Activity - Aotearoa Marae hui with Ōkahu-Inuāwai
Engagement of the community is one of the strategic focus areas of this project and it is important to maintain this level of community support. Massey University are about to engage with an ‘edge of field’ research project in the Waingongoro catchment. TCC engaged with the local hapū as the first steps in engagement. This event created a series of actions and project ideas and detailed the role TCC should have to support progress towards farmer lead initiatives.In addition to t...
January 12, 2023Progress report - Milestone 4
In May 2021, Taranaki Catchment Communities was created as an Incorporated Society looking to lead, engage and mobilise Taranaki’s rural sector in the face of mounting legislative changes.In the one and a half years since TCC was formed, TCC has established 13 community catchment groups all around Mt. Taranaki. It’s had more than 1000 farmers attend community events and committed almost 5,000 volunteer hours to support a range of initiatives. List of key activities since the contra...
January 12, 2023Welcome from the Chair
I am Donna Cram, a dairy farmer, Dairy Environment Leader (DEL), member of the DEL national advisory, (a DairyNZ lead initiative) and a Taranaki Federated Farmers Dairy committee member. My why is to connect people across agricultural communities using values-based communication to empower positive and meaningful change. Alongside my husband, Philip, we see ourselves as guardians of our Dairy Farm, Wylam Dene. We also understand that we are interdependent with our communit...
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