The inaugural Hemp workshop is coming to Marlborough Tuesday 26 July.

The workshop is part of a nationwide tour organised by the New Zealand Hemp Industry Association, supported by AGMARDT and MRC.

It will explore how you can become involved in this new industry.

It is the final Cawthron Marlborough Environment Awards field day before the next round of environment awards launch in August.

The CloudSpec opens the possibility for winemakers to easily capture colour and phenolics information on wines throughout the winemaking process: from grapes to juice, through to ferment and bottling without any clarification.

This Hemp workshop organised by the New Zealand Hemp Industries Association Inc, hosted at the MRC campus, explores hemp’s economic and sustainability potential by looking at regional strengths and how industrial hemp can be utilised.

Blenheim company, DNAiTECH, has won AGMARDT funding to develop innovative in-field diagnostics to fight American foulbrood (AFB) in collaboration with Taylor Pass Honey, who will beta test the new technology.

In their journey to upgrade the dairy farm’s environmental compliance, farm owners Murray and Tanya Frost went well beyond the standard requirements. Stand out features included effluent treatment, fenced waterways, regular soil testing, low-volume irrigation, and reuse of grape posts and mussel shells.

They say one person’s trash is another person’s treasure.

Organic waste management is currently a significant cost to the Top of the South community and could be reduced by embracing a multi-sector collaborative upcycling strategy across the region, according to a recent study.

We can share further progress of the building work. The spacious new staff room which opened mid-May is a terrific place for meetings, social get-togethers and tea breaks.

Cruise Totaranui ‘ Queen Charlotte Sound with Cawthron Marlborough Environment Awards and us on the Cougar Line.

Find out how the Marlborough Sounds Restoration Trust with its group of dedicated volunteers is ridding the Marlborough Sounds of wilding pines one bay at a time.

With NZDFI’s cover story in Timber & Forestry eNews. the news is catching on.

The problem: mechanical harvesting of grapes results in high breakage rates of pine posts, meaning high replacement costs for growers and the subsequent expensive approvals necessary to dispose of posts in landfill sites.