The Muster- Lyn Berry: Home From Another Working Holiday

With another working holiday done and dusted Lyn isn't content to stay at home!

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:04):
Far with.

Speaker 2 (00:07):
Strat's barn a Bear Rugby. This is the master on Hakanui.
We catch up with Lynn Bearing next. Last time we
spoke to Lynn, she was over in Kazakhstan. She's now
back in New Zealand and I think she's up north Lynd.
Good afternoon. Where exactly are you?

Speaker 1 (00:23):
Well, I'm back in the neck. But if I knew
that the Stags were going to lift the shield, I
would have stayed up in the Hamilton last night instead
of instead of coming back, or not last night, not before.
So it was good to see the boys lift the
shield from Waketto and bring it home where it should be.

Speaker 2 (00:42):
Last time we spoke to you, Lynn, you were going
into Kazakhstan on your tour of all the Stans. Everything
went well, yeah, no, it was really good.

Speaker 1 (00:50):
Kazakhstan is probably ninety eight percent bigger than New Zealand.
It's the biggest of the countries in Central Asia there,
and it was yeah, it was really good. I went
to Almilty, which is the second It used to be
the capital, but it's the second largest city in Kazakhstan,

(01:10):
and it is also the origin of all our apples.
So the apple variety started in Kazakhstan, and then it
expanded around the world on the Silk Road, and it's
been breught up to the types of apples that we've
got nowadays.

Speaker 2 (01:26):
In all seriousness, is it a country that still has
a stigma because of borat that movie back in early
two thousands?

Speaker 1 (01:33):
Yea, Well, I didn't see him, and I've never seen
that movie until the other night where the people I
was staying with they put it on. Do you share
the odd person who will make comments about it, But
it's great. The people all through Central Asia were just amazing.
Even though they have nothing and are very poor and

(01:56):
a lot of circumstances, they are just so nice and
so friendly, and they would give you the shirts off
their backs. Yeah. So I didn't get to have a
look around a lot of Kazakhstan, but we went and
saw some of the main highlights, and I got to
hold one of those third golden eagles. It a couple

(02:19):
of about three years old, and it was over three
kilos and the average meal has a wingspan of two
zero point two meters and they're used by the nomadic
tribes out in the steap lands for hunting. So I've
seen videos of them where they will pull Marco polo

(02:40):
sheep off the cliffs in the mountains and just drop them.
But a couple of them will pull down a big
wolf as well.

Speaker 2 (02:48):
Now you're up north, you're having an issue with poland
coming out of the trees.

Speaker 1 (02:53):
Yes, yes, well. I was actually at a friend's place
up just out of Waipawa, and it was really interesting
because it's two and a half years since Gabrielle came through,
and they were unfortunately in a little corridor where they
had a weather bomb at the same time, and they

(03:14):
had five hundred mili of rain in nine hours, and
like ten k either side of them they might have
had ninety. So their property was quite held in places
were quite steep, and it's on paper, so the soil
will slip away quite easily, and they were already saturated
from a lot of rain. When Gabrielle came through. He

(03:36):
didn't hear much about what happened down Natty, but you
heard a lot about the other end. And you can
still see the big scars on all that their land.
When we were driving around the other day, the slip
came through the deer unit. They've got five hundred governing
stags or four fifty velveting stags, and it took out

(03:58):
all the fences through the deer and their boundary fences.
So all these staggs got out and they never got
probably thirty of them back, all their tracks, all their
water systems. That took out lots of fences and underrunners
on fences. They've been retiring a lot of their deeper stuff,
and they got the gorge through the middle of it

(04:19):
that thove Q two. But they've been planting out it
seems like digo dars and pines and a lot of
natives and like one face it must have had about
seventy percent of the whole face had slipped away and
taken on their planting with them as well. They were
saying that probably they're still not finished tiding it up

(04:41):
now and it was probably going to cost them all
up a half a million dollars to fix up all
that damage.

Speaker 2 (04:48):
So as far as the carbon farming situation, you always
keep hearing about right through right place. You're up in
the north at the moment, what do you see as
far as that, Well.

Speaker 1 (04:59):
The count through the regional councils have got this right tree,
right place program running. The people I stayed with. They
actually won an environmental water a couple of years years
ago because their dear farmers and they have been involved
heavily with a scheme and they've been ret sat down.

(05:20):
They looked at their farms, they looked at the opportunities
for different areas of the farm, and they have planted
out sections of their property and they retired it and
planted it. So they do in production forestry, but it's
still large areas that have been planted for carbon farming.

(05:44):
So you know, if it's just planted for carbon. They
freed their carbon credit money over a certain period of time.
But my understanding is for either one production or carbon
they have to stay in for five lives cycles, so
you know that's about one hundred and fifty years that

(06:05):
they'll be in pine carbon farming. They don't have to
do any silver culture. There's no fire control required, there's
no path control required. A lot of them are overseas
investors who have no responsibility. So if we get a
fire that goes through and destroys somebody else's plantation or

(06:26):
somebody else's farm, there's no liability to those people. Because
I've heard of somety practices where they'll go and get
some body in a drunken a bar and a Caribbean
to sign the papers to say that they are part
of that or that's responsible for that business. And then
if something happens, you've got to go try and try,

(06:48):
and that follow the get your money back or whatever.
But the company who were originated, they have no comeback.
You can't get anyone back out of them. And then
and then there's after one hundred and fifew years, you
know it's just sitting near line down falling to Britson.

(07:09):
What do you do with it?

Speaker 2 (07:10):
Certainly in Thistery then he's looked out sooner than Lad
of Landberry. Always appreciate your time. Safe travels up north.

Speaker 1 (07:16):
Thank you go this dag.

Speaker 2 (07:21):
Lynn Berry on a Monday afternoon. Now before we wrap up,
we're going up to the White Keadow to Hamilton. We're
catching up with Graham Minty Meads. Now Graham, he called
the game last night in gold Sport to give us
a White Keadow perspective regarding the NPC, but more importantly
the rain freely Shield