Farm Forestry New ZealandAbout us
The New Zealand Farm Forestry Association (NZFFA) is a community of farmers, landowners, small-scale forest growers, and interested people who have been sharing a passion for trees in New Zealand since 1957.
We were created to support landowners and represent their interests, from planting a single tree to managing a small forest. Our members are practical people keen on growing trees for timber, improving their land, and exploring diverse species. NZFFA is run by our members, for our members, through a network of regional branches and special interest groups across the country.
Our mission is to make farm forestry diverse, resilient, and profitable for landowners. We achieve this by fostering and sharing knowledge on how to successfully plant, manage, and harvest a wide range of tree species and produce forest products. We advocate for small growers interests with the government and wider industry. Whether you want to plant trees for shelter, timber, control erosion, improve water quality, capture carbon, or any other reason, we provide the resources and community support to help you get the most from your land.
- We are the leading researchers of alternative species and support anyone keen on trees and timber.
- We champion the use of trees on farms and support landowners to integrate forestry into farming systems in ways that are diverse in species and land uses, resilient to environmental and economic shocks, and profitable over the long term.
- We represent small forest growers’ interests from planting the seed to finished wood products. We work across the sector and with the government.
- We foster and share knowledge and practice for the planting, management and harvest of a diverse range of forestry tree species
- We build strategic partnerships to engage with landowners, aligned agencies and the wider sector to benefit tree growers.
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