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Risen from the Ashes

“The restoration of the Featherbed Reserve after the devastating fire of 2017 was a mammoth team effort. Each person here is proud of the role they have and still are playing on this journey, and it has certainly been a huge privilege,” says Nicole Tunmer, sales and marketing manager for the Featherbed Company, whm I meet before I take a trip to the reserve.

“We would not have been able to achieve what we've done without the vision of the owner and the management, without budget, and without the clean slate the fires presented to us. This was the ‘silver lining’ of the fire – the fact that almost everything was reduced to ashes.We have put a huge effort into the rehabilitation project ultimately in an

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