After 27 years of organic growing, Hawke’s Bay couple Scott Lawson and Vicki Meech have downsized to focus on their blueberry crop. Many readers will be familiar with the carrots, potatoes, onions and other vegetables sold under Scott and Vicki’s True Earth brand. Now, with the decision to reduce their operation from a variety of […]
Technology is the bane and the spine of modern life – think hospitals, communications, air travel – everywhere you look, technology is being utilised to improve the system for which it is designed. Bruce Trevarthen is a tech wizard who has combined his love of technology with his understanding of production and materials handling to […]
Theresa SjoquistAotea Organics is an enterprising farm demonstrating resilience and sustainability through a mix of productive activities and value-adding. Five years ago, American Dan Friedlander, and his Japanese wife, Kazuyo, bought Aotea Organics at Shelly Beach on the South Head of Kaipara Harbour. Originally set up as Shelly Beach Farm in 1978 and run by John […]
Pacific Biofert is a family run organic fertiliser business. Managed today by Bill Sinclair, Pacific Biofert began as a small farm. Clive Sinclair, Bill’s father, began work in his father’s small family flour-packing business. Clive’s father was General Manager of Northern Roller Mills (NRM), a large supplier of stock foods. Seeing a gap in the […]
Klaus Lotz of Permadynamics in Matapouri is the first mushroom grower in New Zealand to achieve biodynamic certification with Demeter for two types of mushrooms: Shiitake (lentinula edodes) and Oyster (pleurotus ostreatus) mushrooms. There is one other certified organic mushroom producer in new Zealand, Hillcroft Mushrooms in Napier. The production process at Permadynamic uses only […]
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