Tuesday, 11 February 2025 14:25

Repost

Written by Staff Reporters

font size decrease font size increase font size
Print
Email

Repost is set to hit the million-post mark in 2025, having processed more than 787,500 posts from vineyards.

The Marlborough-based company was founded five years ago to tackle the issue of broken or replaced CCA treated vineyard posts being stored in stacks on vineyards or going to landfill. Instead they are repurposed into posts for farm fencing, diverting 8,711 tonnes from waste piles.

With five portable machines working across Marlborough, Repost is now “a daily fixture” on most of the region’s vineyards, says co-founder Dansy Coppell, reflecting on “a blend of Kiwi ingenuity and some big sky thinking”.

That ingenuity has been awarded in recent years, including in the Cawthron Marlborough Environment Awards 2023 Wine Category Award and the 2023 Beef & Lamb New Zealand Awards Gallagher Innovation Award.

Last year Dansy won the Innovation Award in the Rural Women New Zealand Business Awards 2024.

More like this

30 Years of SWNZ

This year Sustainable Winegrowing New Zealand celebrates 30 years since the industry made a commitment to protecting the places that make its famous wines.

Urlar Architecture

Wairarapa wine producer Urlar has completed an extension to its winery, with larger red and white fermentation halls, a dedicated press hall, offices, laboratory testing, a cellar door and tasting room with lounge and dining spaces, and a commercial kitchen and supporting amenities.

Lifetime Achievement

Ormond Nurseries founders Ben and Frances Wickham, climate scientist Rob Agnew, and New Zealand sparkling wine pioneers Daniel and Adele Le Brun were presented Wine Marlborough Lifetime Achievement Awards at The Marlborough Wine Show Celebration Lunch in October.

Conference Scholarship

Organic Winegrowing New Zealand is partnering with the New Zealand Horticentre Charitable Trust to offer up to 10 scholarships for the Organic & Biodynamic Winegrowing Conference in Marlborough on 16-18 June.

Stanmore Farm

Stanmore Farm featured on Hyundai Country Calendar in October, giving insights into the Kāpiti Coast family business supplying commercial vineyards with baby vines.