Post and Wire
In 2020, Greg and Dansy Coppell were confronting a considerable financial dilemma on their 500-hectare farm in St Arnaud. Like many farmers, they needed to purchase materials to fence off…
What is Chitin and how is it beneficial to plants?
Kiwi-born farmer, Ian Rew, has launched a new ground-breaking, BioGro certified organic chitin-based product for growers in New Zealand, named Flamingro, which has been proven to increase plant root mass…
Summer Tomatoes
I reckon every gardener has “their” vegetable – the one they just seem to understand and as a result, they grow with ease. The tomato – while technically a fruit –…
Level-headed
When my wife and I first told friends and family that we were about to put an impulsive offer on a block of bare, coastal land in the Waikato, they…
Passive Potential
If there were an ideal scenario for a passive income on a farm or lifestyle block, it would probably look a little like this: you do a very small amount…
Homemade Wedding
In spring 2022, six months before she was to host her daughter’s wedding on her Nelson property, Rachel Brydon started growing flowers. She began by digging up the border of the…
Reclaiming the Value Chain
In 2018, when David Thorpe decided he wanted a break from managing his elderly parents’ farm, he, his siblings and their spouses put their heads together to come up with…
Courgettes for Days
I grew up in a nature-loving (yes, hippy!) family on a large property overlooking my hometown of Raglan. My parents grew much of what we ate, without the use of…
Family Sufficiency
It’s relatively uncommon for someone to upgrade from a five-acre property to 50 acres. But Rochelle and her husband Mike knew exactly what they wanted to do with the extra…