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Volume Two I April 13 2020 I email: agined@globalHQ.co.nz I www.farmersweekly.co.nz
Photo of the week: ‘Pride in the Kakanui’
In your paper 1 Rewrite this week’s front page headline in your words, make it catchy 2 Go outside and take a front page news photo 3 Give it a caption and share it on our facebook page
STRETCH YOURSELF: 1 Find a topic in this week’s paper that is important to you and your family Due to the lockdown, a planned community planting operation was postponed in Enfield. This is Breanna’s photo of work carried out in a previous year.. To be in the draw to have your photo featured, please send a high resolution copy to agined@global.co.nz
1 Go to www.farmersweekly.co.nz 2 Find and watch the OnFarmStory on Roger Beattie, Lansdowne Valley 3 When did the Beattie’s start breeding Weka on their farm?
STRETCH YOURSELF: 1 Roger Beattie is an enviropreneur, what is an enviropreneur? 2 Where did the sheep on Kowhai Vale originate from? 3 When they set up their marine farm, what did they originally use kelp for? 4 What other uses did they find for Kelp?
1 Go to the AgriHQ Market Snapshot page 2 What is this week’s North Island Bull price? 3 Is this better or worse than last week?
2 Give us your opinion, tell us why it is important to you and send a letter to our editor at agined@globalhq.co.nz We may choose your letter to feature in Ewe said!
Letter of the week Ewe said... Breanna Kingan sent in this fabulous piece about environmental conservation in her community. Enfield planting gets popular on the A2O Enfield residents come together on a very sunny day to plant about 300 plants, near the Alps 2 Ocean at Enfield. They selected the area because there was not much going on in that area and there needed to be a spice up there. The types of plants they planted were flax, toi toi, cabbage trees, pittosporum, kowhai, sedge grasses, and hebes. As the saying goes, many hands make light work, and all plants were in the ground and the mulch around the plants were completed all in the morning’s work. The planters were rewarded with a delicious sausage sizzle for lunch.
T hanks Breanna! Your GlobalHQ mug is on its way!
4 How does it compare to last year?
STRETCH YOURSELF: Do some research in the paper or online on the top export destinations for NZ lamb, see if you can identify the country in the graph that imports the biggest share of NZ lamb.
FILL YA BOOTS: 1 Of the farms for sale, which one is most like yours and why? 2 Which farm is most different to yours and why? 3 What is the 7 day rainfall forecast for your area?
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SCAVENGER HUNT · Find and identify two different types of grass · Find and record the names of three different types of bugs/insects around your property · Do you think the bugs/insects you found are useful to your environment or are they a pest?