Farming with trees on sand country Conference Paper
- Author
- Denis Hocking
- Year
- 1990
- Journal / Source
- Proceedings of the New Zealand Grassland Association
- Number
- 51
- Pages
- 59-60
- Keywords
- trees, sand, farming
- Summary
- The property has been owned and operated by a collection of family members for 34 years, having been brought with a keen eye for its forestry potential. My father was in the New Zealand Forest Service, and was a keen advocate of farm forestry. Thus the property has been developed as a sheep and cattle and also as a forestry operation, with production forestry being concentrated on the Foxton and Motuiti soils, i.e., the dunes, along with shelter and woodlot shelter plantings on the flats. Recently a further 80 ha have been added with the same objectives in mind.