Soul in the Soil: Inside a NZ Biodynamic Vineyard
At The Wrekin, a biodynamic vineyard in Marlborough, the rituals start with cow horns and manure When most people visit a vineyard, they’d probably expect to taste some wine, maybe…
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Plants and Pasture: How to Earn Carbon Credits on a Farm
It probably won’t be news to many people that New Zealand farms are disappearing at an alarming rate and being replaced with pine trees (Pinus radiata). Given the poor returns…
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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…
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Tips for first-time pig owners
YOU NEED AT LEAST TWO PIGS There are three reasons why you may wish to have pigs: • as pets;• to process them for meat such as pork, bacon etc;•…
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Daily Milk
Every morning at 8am, after she’s dropped the kids off at their bus stop, Lis Martinac drives along the meandering driveway through her 77-acre farm to collect the morning milk….
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Be Ready for Bird Flu
A strain of high pathogenicity avian influenza – also known as bird flu – has been spreading around the world, affecting both domesticated and wild birds. This highly contagious virus…
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How to improve pastural soil health
Nick Collins knows how to talk about soil health. The former organic dairy farmer from Piopio has made it his business to share his hard-earned knowledge about how to improve…
