Waimea Weekly Locally Owned and Operated
Wednesday 5 February 2025
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Call to protect the land that grows food ANNE HARDIE A Hope resident and an urban designer have joined forces to organise a meeting about planned development in Hope, in a bid to protect land that grows the food
and think differently about development. Garry Higgins is hoping the Tasman District Council will go back to the drawing board on plans for Richmond South-Hope in its Future Development Strategy and
instead concentrate on intensification within developed areas or on poorer-quality land. Along with fellow organiser, Timo Neubauer, he has organised a meeting in the Hope Hall to get an overview of the council’s plans
for Hope as well as hear about an alternative approach. He says many residents say they didn’t know about the plans, so it’s an opportunity to get them together and find out more, as well as ask questions.
His main concern is the loss of productive land and, as the owner of Richmond Roast House, he knows where his vegetables come from and the fluctuations in price
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Pedalling the length and breadth of America ANNE HARDIE Hamish and Joan Blanch’s latest cycling trip in the United States covered 3,400kms, and over the years they have now cycled 45,000kms in that country alone. In their latest cycling trip, the Richmond couple spent two months peddling through mainly rural America, from Houston, Texas, in the south to the New York Finger Lakes near the Canadian border. From hot, humid temperatures in the mid30s when they cycled through the southern states, they completed the tour in cool, frosty temperatures in the north, with a couple of hurricanes thrown into the weather mix along the way. On their Surly long-haul bikes, they camped
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Joan and Hamish Blanch spent two months cycling from Texas to near the Canadian border. Photo: Anne Hardie.
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