Riparian zone grant project
In 2018 we were successful in our application for a North East Catchment Management Authority grant.
For this grant we installed nearly 3 km's of electric fencing along our riparian areas and wetland area.
We have hand planted over 4000 trees, shrubs and grasses indigenous to our location.
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We will restrict access to these areas from our stock for the next few years while the plants establish.
Six months on from planting and we have around 50% success rate with the planting which is pretty good considering the summer of 2019/2020 which was extremely hot, up to 45 degrees, dry and no watering of the plants other than any rain we were lucky enough to get.
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Solar power
As the farm is off grid we have designed and created our own solar system to power our electric fencing.
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Matt & Danny constructed the support frame for the panels early in 2020. The system we have is a 5kw battery storage.
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We are able to easily provide power for all of the farm fence lines and can store excess power in batteries.
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We are able to monitor how much power we produce and store through an app on our phone so we can always ensure that the fences are operating.
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In the future we will expand our solar and renewable energy systems to power our house and sheds.
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A regenerative farm.
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