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Hyundai Country Calendar - Sustaina Grow episode

“A farming couple make garden and horticultural products from strong wool, creating new uses for sheep fleece and reducing plastic in the environment.”

“Rita Hammond and her husband Dave run a farm, have a firewood business and now sell dag wool as plant protectors.

Rita talks to Jesse about their unique product and how they're recycling the waste.”

Turning Dag Wool into wool mulch matting. Eco friendly sustainable Geotextile product
New Zealand wool being used to replace plastic synthetics in the growing industry

“Hammond who runs a sheep and beef farm in Ohakune with husband Dave, has created a product that eliminates the need for weeding while feeding your plants - and its all thanks to wool”

Dag Wool for weed matting

“Sheep dags at times end up in the landfill due to their current un-economic nature within the wool industry. However, once encapsulated in landfill, they decompose and produce methane, which has 20 times the global warming capacity of carbon dioxide.

Rita could see a way of diverting the dags from landfill and make a useful environmentally friendly product that people who weren’t on farms could have access to.”

Wool Dags turned into dagmat - wool mulch matting

“Hammond was using wool to help maintain soil temperature, keep predators away and attract worms.”