Swapping software for trees

4 Mar 2025 • By Chris Gardner Share:

Ian Brennan wants to develop a sustainable eco system which can tolerate harvesting, writes Chris Gardner.

Ian Brennan on his Te Miro farm. Photo: Chris Gardner

Ian Brennan is proud to call himself a “tree pervert”.

Brennan has spent 18 years planting continuous cover native forestry on his Te Miro hill country farm after he witnessed the impact of soil erosion first hand.

“A big lump of earth came tumbling down past me,” he told fellow farmers at a field day held earlier on his Maungakawa Road property near Cambridge

“I thought, have we bought a lemon?”

See: Swapping softward for farming

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