Gumboot Girl lends a hand

Landscape designer Annemarie Robb aka ‘Gumboot Girl’ has been working hard to design a natural landscape for the Environment Waikato stall at Fieldays.

Robb says she was contracted by them to create an example of what farmers could be doing to protect Waikato streams and rivers.

“The idea was to get me to create something that looked like a naturalistic landscape for farmers so that they will plant up their waterways.”

She said the putting the stall together was not as difficult as she expected.

“It didn’t take me long to put it all together, but probably three or four days. One big day yesterday putting it in, we had three vehicles and three trailers. Luckily people haven’t put their stands up till the last minute so we backed right in. I was surprised there wasn’t more chaos out here, but it’s chaos today [Tuesday].”

Robb is the owner of Gumboot Girl, a landscape design business she formed after she graduated from Wintec in 2006.

“I graduated in the November and then I just started work. I had a little car, then I bought a trailer, and then I bought a van and away I went. So I just started for friends and it’s just grown from there.”

If you have also graduated from Wintec, you can reconnect by joining the Wintec Alumni Circle at www.wintec.ac.nz.

To check out the landscape Robb has built head into the Pavilion to site PF17.