
Tourism, native planting, and bee keeping are all possibilities a community lead working group is waiting on government funding to explore.
A photograph of a rotary hoe being used to remediate a large sand volcano on a farm near River Road in Lincoln.
A photograph of a rotary hoe being used to remediate a large sand volcano on a farm near River Road in Lincoln.
Photograph captioned by Fairfax, "Quake damage to farms near the quake centre at Greendale. Chris Black from FMG with damaged grain silos".
A photograph of a close up view of damage to the ground and fencing at a farm near Telegraph Road in Darfield.
A photograph of a large sand volcano on a farm near River Road in Lincoln being spread out with multiple power-harrow passes.
A photograph of a tractor on a farm near River Road in Lincoln, ready to drive a power harrow over a liquefaction blister.
Photograph captioned by Fairfax, "Quake damage to farms near the quake centre at Greendale. Murray Rowlands from Federated Farmers with damaged water pipes".
A photograph of contractor Tony Fisher of Fisher Agricultural Ltd. inspecting a dug out soil pit on a farm near River Road in Lincoln.
Photograph captioned by Fairfax, "Aerial shot of the fault line that ruptured, causing Saturday's 7.1 earthquake. The fault line streaks through a farm".
A photograph of the result of a liquefaction blister that has been flattened with a power harrow on a farm near River Road in Lincoln.
A photograph of the result of a liquefaction blister that has been flattened with a rotary hoe on a farm near River Road in Lincoln.
A photograph of the remains of a liquefaction blister that has been flattened with a rotary hoe on a farm near River Road in Lincoln.
A photograph of Peter Almond (wearing high visibility jacket) and Derrick Moot inspecting a dug-out soil pit on a farm near River Road in Lincoln.
Photograph captioned by Fairfax, "Recently orphaned Paris Hilton, whose mother was killed by a falling boulder on a Port Hills farm, following the Canterbury earthquakes".
Photograph captioned by Fairfax, "Recently orphaned Paris Hilton, whose mother was killed by a falling boulder on a Port Hills farm, following the Canterbury earthquakes".
Photograph captioned by Fairfax, "Recently orphaned Paris Hilton, whose mother was killed by a falling boulder on a Port Hills farm, following the Canterbury earthquakes".
The support has been outstanding for those with damaged homes, buildings and farm infrastructure, but some are still too shattered to really know what to get the keen helpers to do.
Photograph captioned by Fairfax, "Canterbury A&P show president John Grigg's Hororata farm was badly damaged in the earthquake. The end of his grandmother's 1970 Holden Premier".
A photograph of a dug-out soil pit on a farm near River Road in Lincoln, showing saturated sand between the topsoil and the subsoil where the grass roots end.
A photograph of a dug-out soil pit on a farm near River Road in Lincoln, showing saturated sand between the topsoil and the subsoil where the grass roots end.
A photograph of a dug-out soil pit on a farm near River Road in Lincoln, showing saturated sand between the topsoil and the subsoil where the grass roots end.
A photograph of a dug-out soil pit on a farm near River Road in Lincoln, showing saturated sand between the topsoil and the subsoil where the grass roots end.
A photograph of a dug-out soil pit on a farm near River Road in Lincoln, showing saturated sand between the topsoil and the subsoil where the grass roots end.
A photograph of a dug-out soil pit on a farm near River Road in Lincoln, showing saturated sand between the topsoil and the subsoil where the grass roots end.
A photograph of a dug-out soil pit on a farm near River Road in Lincoln, showing saturated sand between the topsoil and the subsoil where the grass roots end.
A photograph of a dug-out soil pit on a farm near River Road in Lincoln, showing saturated sand between the topsoil and the subsoil where the grass roots end.
Page 10 of Section B of the Christchurch Press, published on Friday 10 September 2010.
Resilience and community spirit have shone through in North Canterbury in the aftermath of the earthquake. With no active civil defence post in operation in Cheviot in the days after the 7.8 quake, a group of locals mobilised a task force to support those in need. Further north at Mendip Hills Station farm manager Simon Lee has been repairing broken water pipes and clearing slips in time for weaning, while on Ben Lissington's dairy farm near Waiau, milk tankers are having to go off the beaten track to get to the rotary shed after a six metre section of the road was destroyed.
Many farmers' homes have been red-stickered after the Kaikoura earthquake, but they say they can't leave because their farms aren't just their homes, they're their livelihoods