Rate My Professor Jeff Burrow

In addition to his professional responsibilities, Jeff Burrow is actively involved in community service as the Chief Fire Officer of the Waitati Volunteer Fire Brigade and a member of the executive of the Master Plumbers Association. He has undertaken a personal project to convert an unproductive, overgrown area on his property into a flourishing mini eco-sanctuary. Over three years, he cleared gorse and blackberry brambles, and with support from the Halo Project by Landscape Connections Trust—which provided trees, surrounds, and weed mat—he organized over 50 volunteers, including family, friends, and workmates, to plant 500 native trees in one day on his birthday. Six months later, the land is transforming, and he is collaborating with neighbors to clear adjoining land and create a community walking track safer than the nearby road. Jeff credits his family for instilling the value of giving back; his father Neil Burrow was a contractor at the University of Otago, and his son Keegan Burrow is a PhD graduate from Otago now teaching at Lincoln University. Jeff views these efforts as "the right thing to do," finding his "happy place" in keeping busy and doing good for the community and environment.