Country Life / Rural

Rugged farmland reverting back to bush

19:21 pm on 10 February 2023

Rugged farmland reverting back to bush

Nigel and Cathy Graham Photo: Cosmo Kentish-Barnes

700 hectares of hill country on Nigel and Cathy Graham's Kaikōura farm is being retired. 

Income from honey and carbon credits are repacing livestock on the regenerating land. 

The couple have also protected a wetland that has one of the best examples of a raupō reedland in the district. 

Photo: Cosmo Kentish-Barnes

Photo: Cosmo Kentish-Barnes

Photo: Cosmo Kentish-Barnes

Photo: Cosmo Kentish-Barnes