For the love of nature
Barter, together with his team, planted almost every single one of the 30 000 odd trees and shrubs seen at Brettenwood Coastal Estate today.
He has been instrumental in transforming rolling hills of sugar cane fields into a lush home for bird and wildlife at Brettenwood Coastal Estate.
Norman Barter was just about to slip into retirement after a lifetime of farming, when he had a call from his good friend Brett Hulett.
He asked if he knew how to plant trees; Barter’s response, “everyone knows how to plant trees”.
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Barter built and moved into the second home on the estate, and over about ten years together with his team, planted almost every single one of the 30 000 odd trees and shrubs seen there today.
In a fitting tribute of Barter’s work, Brettenwood honoured this incredible feat with a celebratory opening of Barter’s Bird Hide recently – set to become one of the most cherished spaces on the estate, for any one of the great number of birders and wildlife enthusiasts who live there.
Bird guide Junior Gabela said Brettenwood Estate has a beautiful, large variety of birds to look out for.
“Some of the birds to spot are: weavers – yellow, village, cape or southern masked; egrets – yellow billied, great and little; ducks – yellow billied and fulvous and the black crowned or grey herons,” said Gabela.
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