Our Story

Greg and Dansy Coppell needed 30km of stock fencing for their 500-hectare sheep and beef breeding farm on a tight budget. There first thought was to look for discarded vineyard posts as Greg’s dad Allan had been using them for decades on his farms.

They found a stockpile of posts at a local vineyard in Marlborough and spent days picking over the pile and loaded up the 8 wheeler truck, returning to the farm to repurpose the broken 2.4 vineyard posts into 1.8 and 1.6 m half and quarter rounds.

On friends and family seeking the repurposed posts, Greg and Dansy Coppell were keen to see if there was a way to make this work on a larger scale, particularly as they now knew the viticulture industry dispose of 100,000’s of tonnes of useful durable wood in to New Zealand’s landfills every year. On connecting with Stu Dudley, a well respected Marlborough Viticulturalist it was clear they were on to something!

Stu knows that the viticulture industry prides itself on being sustainable and is always looking for ways to lower their environmental impact; Repost could finally solve a decade old issue of CCA treated timber waste.

Greg and Dansy very quickly realised this was a solvable issue with a bit of Kiwi ingenuity; and Repost was born.

The Repost team are excited they are changing one of the viticulture industries largest waste issues and creating valuable recycled low-cost resources for Kiwis too.

Being resourceful is second nature to Kiwis and the team hope Repost’s sustainable fence posts makes as much sense to you as it does to them.

Cheers,

Greg & Dansy Coppell, Stu Dudley and Liam Garlick