Limestone Downs Open Day 2021
January 18, 2021
Date: Tuesday 16 February 2021Start time: 10.00 am at Woolshed
Speakers will present in the morning. There will be a farm tour in the afternoon.
Topics to be covered:
10.20 - Farm performance – Paul Mahoney and Mike Sarich
10.50 - Proof that sheep donâ€...
East of England Agricultural Society
May 26, 2020
Trustees Robin Boyes and Simon Taylor presenting first prize to the Newton Rigg 2nd Team who won the College Challenge stock judging competition at the annual show on 30 November 2019.
The C. Alma Baker Trust sponsors the show each year which brings teams from all over...
Rural Living Article on Limestone Downs
February 21, 2019
NO RINGWRAITHS NOW – it’s all beef and sheep
Limestone Downs Farm is famous the world over for being a location in The Lord of the Rings trilogy. But Peter Jackson wasn’t the first to recognise its outstanding natural beauty – around the time that Tolkien was writing his epic novel, moves were already afoot to pres...
A number of PhD Scholarships funded by the Trust were awarded recently to Massey University students. The awards were presented by Professor Hugh Blair, a Director of C. Alma Baker Trust (NZ) Ltd....
