22 Apr 2013

Wairarapa farmers win environment award

7:05 pm on 22 April 2013

Central Wairarapa farmers Michael and Karen Williams have won the top farm environment award for the greater Wellington region.

Their 224 hectare arable, lamb finishing and beef unit was described by judges as a very well organised business run by an inspirational young couple.

They grow a wide range of crops using a cross-slot drilling system.

They put considerable effort into protecting and enhancing two hectares of bush and have preserved non-cultivatable flood channels by planting riparian zones.

A 2.8 kilometre stretch of the Ruamahanga River along the farm's boundary has been fenced off, and work continues on smaller waterways.