Tomtit Farm - Connecting producer, consumer and nature
Waikato's Tomtit Farm is supplying nutrient-dense produce direct to the local community, and connecting them directly to the land and people that produced it.
How Dean Martin turns grazing management into soil health
Dean Martin’s adaptive grazing management is growing soil organic matter, deeper rooting plants and supporting a sheep-based system built around thriving soil.
Mangaroa Farms - Farming for good
With its emphasis on community and sustainable ecosystems, Mangaroa Farms is integrating its beef, lamb and vegetable production with both nature and consumers.
How the Rutherford's healthy soils are restoring the water cycle in Central Otago
The diverse but brittle Central Otago landscape farmed by the Rutherfords has been transformed through soil health, regenerative management and holistic decision-making.
The Bielskis journey to a high performance regenerative sheep system
The Bielski’s have tried, tested and evolved a high performance sheep grazing, cropping and pasture management system that's resilient, low input and profitable.
How Miah & Jenny Smith built a healthier, resilient and low-stress dairy system
Five years in, Miah and Jenny Smith reflect on their regenerative dairying journey and the dramatic improvements in animal health, margins and their own quality of life.
Introducing Greystone Wines and Holdaway vineyard
Two very different vineyards, one in Marlborough another in Canterbury’s Waipara hills, offer different perspectives on what it means to operate regeneratively.
Context, goals and mindset
Improving the relationship between soil and plant health is fundamental to helping cycle nutrients and increasing nutrient availability to the vines.
Diverse vineyard cover crops
In viticulture systems, cover crops can help reduce compaction, cut fertiliser use, improve water infiltration and lower pest and disease pressure.
Improving soil and vine health
Improving the relationship between soil and plant health is fundamental to helping cycle nutrients and increasing nutrient availability to the vines.
Minimising disturbance under-vine
Innovative approaches being taken to explore alternative under-vine management that helps increase soil health and support healthy vines, yield and quality.
Biological pest and disease management in vines
There are alternative ways to manage vineyard disease and insect pests that are less costly and don’t negatively impact beneficial microbial and insect life.
Holistic grazing sheep in vineyards
Improving livestock integration into cropping systems can bring a wide range of benefits and displace the need for increasingly expensive inputs.
Introducing David Birkett and Nigel Greenwood
Introducing two Canterbury arable farmers who are increasing the health, resilience and profitability of their farm systems, with a focus on building soil health.
Crop management and gross margins
Farm data comparison of the crop management inputs and associated gross margins of biological or regenerative farming systems for three common arable crops.
Residue management and cover crops
Retaining crop residues and integrating cover crops are key practices that both protect the soil surface and keep living roots in the ground year-round.
Building arable soil health
Exploring different practices for building soil health and broader ecosystem health, which underpin the success of biological and regenerative arable systems.
Managing crop pests and diseases
Exploring different practices for building soil health and broader ecosystem health, which underpin the success of biological and regenerative arable systems.
Growing healthy crops
Exploring different practices for building soil health and broader ecosystem health, which underpin the success of biological and regenerative arable systems.
Harvesting free nitrogen
Exploring different practices for building soil health and broader ecosystem health, which underpin the success of biological and regenerative arable systems.