Farrow Jamieson and their client Ricoh hosted a Planting Action Day in partnership with CarbonInvoice. 1,145 native seedlings were planted at the Papakura Stream Restoration Project. This was the first Planting Action Day of the season and it set the tone for 2025!

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From measurement to real action

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The Farrow Jamieson team has been committed to their climate journey since before 1 April 2023. On that day the business started measuring it's carbon footprint and funding native trees each month to mitigate it. They haven't stopped since. 

Back in 2024, Iain and Rosemary MacGibbon participated in a Community Planting Action Day. It was wildly successful. As the Managing Director at Farrow Jamieson, Iain shared with clients in their Christmas newsletter: "nothing is more rewarding than watching a forest grow before your eyes as people madly plant a range of native trees".

Early in 2025, the team decided to host their own day and invite one of their clients and partner Ricoh New Zealand to join them to plant native trees together.

It's their second year participating on a Planting Action Day and putting trees in the ground at thee Papakura Stream Restoration Project. There is no doubt in their minds that they'll be back next year.

Impact: 1,145 native seedlings planted

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A classic settled Autumn day and ideal planting conditions. The group of 24 members of Farrow Jamieson, Ricoh New Zealand and CarbonInvoice attended and were up for the task.

This Planting Action Day tool place at Kimpton’s Farm, a small working farm and long-time partner of the Papakura Stream Restoration Project, which aims to restore and protect stream banks and water quality, as well as habitat for native species.

The landowner Keith Kimpton is part of the Kimpton family who first arrived in the area in 1846 and have been farming and caring for the land since then. The seedlings will stabilise stream banks, preventing erosion and reducing the amount of sediment clogging up our waterways and making it’s way to the Manukau Harbour.

Some of the species planted: Mānuka, Kānuka, Tī kōuka (Cabbage Tree), Mapou, Red Matipo, Mānatu (Ribbonwood) and Sedges (native grasses).

Building connections

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The Farrow Jamieson Planting Action Day was a real world experience that created connections between the people who turned up. Several great collaborations saw colleagues and attendees focussed on their strengths, one digging and another planting.

• A couple of great collaborations were made where colleagues focussed on their strengths, one digging and another one planting
• Iain and Rosemary - couples who plant together stay together, returned for a second year of planting action
• Rhys and Kristen who sit next to one another at Farrow Jamieson teamed up for the greater good
• Katherine + Ali. The muscle and the Mahi took our best collaboration for their smiling hard work
• The energy and consistency across the group was high and maintained. Average seedlings planted per person was 52!