“KIA WHANGAIHIA NGA URI – A TINANA, A HINENGARO, A WAIRUA” — To provide sustenance to beneficial owners and their descendants mind, body and soul. Ōpepe Farm Trust has scaled up its commitment to restoring the land and its tribal owners’ reconnection to the land it farms, extending its 84ha regenerative-based rere ki uta rere […]
“We thought artificial fertiliser would fix the soil,” explains dairy farmer Miah Smith of Atiamuri, “not knowing anything about the biology and no-one had taught us from 20 years of dairy farming, we were pretty much at a loss for about three or four years.” Wilith Farm is a forestry conversion that had been farmed
Stanfred Farm is on Puhunga Island Rd, a farm that was known as “Davey Bros Farm” for 100 years. It is farmed by Warrick Davey after the death of Warrick’s brother Selwyn in 2020. Now it is co-owned by family members Carol Davey and Warrick Davey. In living memory, the soil has suffered unimaginable
A \’lazy way of farming\’ is how Mohi Beckham describes the changes he and his team have made on Scylla Farm. But farming is never lazy. And Mohi just needed to make changes for his mental health. A big part of our dedicated research is how farmers\’ own mental wellbeing relates to healthy soils.
“It feeds us, it takes care of us, without the whenua we wouldn’t survive, none of us. I’m looking at it from a global way, and with farming, that’s what it still means to me.” These are the words of George Hopa an Ahuwhenua Trophy winner, the highest accolade in Maori Farming, talking about oneone,
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