- the Regional Council, staff and councillors
- projects like Clean Streams
- other land sustainability initiatives
- farmer/land care groups/councillors
- Russel Norman visited
- Our council spent a day on and around the lagoon recently
- farmers come in to present their case/pleas to us
- a sheep farmer with very strong views about the dairying
- a woman who farms in the catchment
- meetings with Nick Smith
- iwi
- Fish and Game
- a LandCare group
- DairyNZ reps
- Fonterra
- person to person talks with Metiria and Russel as well as Jeanette and the two Southern Green candidates
- a long, intense and fruitful talk with Natty Eric Roy
- Leslie Soper, Labour candidate
From a comment on a post I saw the other day listing the mostly non-productive 'assisting' the legitimate business of farming near some shithole swamp in Southland. Apparently been often used as a sewer over the past 150 years, now some vociferous locals want it cleaned. But I'm sure that is not a definitive list of the non-productive.
Is it any wonder farmers often bitch about interference in their businesses?