Canterbury: Soil Health and Grazing
Hosted by Canterbury Grazing Group and Quorum Sense. This field day will introduce the experiences and knowledge of Dayle & Tamsin Lucas, farmers of 300ha near Methven.
Manawatū: 2nd Annual Whenua Haumanu Field Day
Hosted by Whenua Haumanu, Massey University. A day filled with learning and networking at the two research farmlets.
Bay of Plenty: The Regenerative Shift Field Day
Hosted by Kiwifruit Regen / Soil Biology Discussion Group and Leighton Oats: learn how to enhance soil health from Phil Carter and see regenerative practices in action in Leighton's orchard.
Canterbury: Bioferments and biofertilisers
Hosted by Growers Leading Change-FAR: Join Australian agroecologist David Hardwick to explore ‘on-farm bugs and brews', learn how to use them in your system and practice making some simple examples.
Bay of Plenty: Kiwifruit regen/soil biology discussion day
Hosted by Kiwifruit Regen / Soil Biology Discussion Group and Leighton Oats: learn how to enhance soil health from Phil Carter and see regenerative practices in action in Leighton's orchard.
Canterbury: Bale Grazing - a winter innovations workshop
Hosted by Quorum Sense and the Canterbury Grazing Group: an opportunity to find out more about bale grazing as a viable and cost-effective wintering practice with environmental and animal welfare benefits.
Marlborough: Curiosity Cockies Day
Hosted by Marlborough Curious Cockies: learn about managing multiple enterprises and more from award winners.
Southland: Learnings from the Soil Armour Project
Hosted by On Farm Support, AgResearch and Quorum Sense: the day is sharing learnings from AgResearch’s project that’s investigating whether a pasture-based alternative, supplemented with hay or baleage, will reduce nitrate leaching and paddock pugging.
Northland: Hill country regenerative farming discussion day
Hosted by KRFG, NFDG and Brendon Booth & Michelle Thompson: See how regenerative practices and permaculture principles are creating a hill country farm system that reduces fertiliser and is better for livestock.
Canterbury: Regenerative farming on hill country discussion day
Hosted by Canterbury Grazing Group and Mark & Laura Koopmans: Join us for an interactive and informative day of learning and sharing experiences on a large hill country sheep and beef property.
Hawke’s Bay: Resilient Landscapes - NZFFA Conference 2024
Hosted by NZFFA: The national conference will showcase examples and initiatives to help farmers improve sustainable land use, increase biodiversity and champion a resilient environment.
All regions: Alternatives to pine on your farm
Hosted by NZFFA with support from Te Uru Rākau: see examples of non-pine forestry at field days throughout NZ between 14 Mar and 8 Jun.
Taranaki: Multispecies discussion group
Hear how Tracy Stewart set up her own nursery and collected seeds as a way to introduce multispecies into her dairy support system without cultivation.
Manawatu-Whanganui: How to farm regeneratively on hill country
A visit with Clare and Grant Adkins to understand and support the challenge of farming regeneratively on their hill country farm, followed by an early BBQ.
Northland: Visual soil assessment field day
Learn to carry out and interpret a visual soil assessment (VSA) with Charles Merfield, then walk the regenerative farm of Gerard and Jake Anselmi.
Canterbury: Integral health dairy farm open day
Visit a development dairy farm exploring systems that enhance human and environmental health, animal well-being, biodiversity and the local economy.
Manawatu: Reducing stress & creating resilience field day
Nearly seven years into their journey, Russel & Charlotte Heald share their focus on stress reduction and creating resilience for soils, pastures, cows, finances and people.
Taranaki: Waterway management and grazing discussion group
Join this discussion group to visit a beef farm seeing impressive benefits from a dedicated focus on protecting and improving waterway health and native biodiversity.
Manawatu: Whenua Haumanu open day / field day
Come and see what the Whenua Haumanu research programme into pastoral (including regenerative) agriculture in New Zealand has achieved in its first year.
Canterbury: Farmers’ curiosity day
An opportunity to find out about the benefits of innovative and regenerative farming practices for soil and water health, the environment and farm business.
Kaipara: Next Level Grazing Field Day
Hosted by Kaipara Regenerative Farming Group with support from Quorum Sense.
The focus will be on lifting farm productivity on pastoral farmland using nature's template to help build better soil capital and increase biodiversity so farmers can be profitable in any weather.
Kaipara: Compost swale field trip
Hosted by Hibiscus Coast Zero Waste’s City to Farm Project.
South Auckland: Soil health & water quality field day
A chance to learn how good soil health positively contributes to water quality and on-farm resilience to both droughts and rain events.
Canterbury: Good practice winter grazing field day
Part one of a three-part series to discuss new research to optimise animal welfare, nutrition, environmental considerations and alternatives to crop-based winter grazing.
Northland/Kaipara: Summer forage crop field day
The benefits of diverse forage crops on soil and animal health, and different ways of utilising this practice. Host farmer David Cole will be sharing his observations of his diverse forage crop's soil and animal health benefits as well as how it compares financially with a maize crop.
Canterbury: Align Farms regenerative trial field day
An opportunity to find out more about the trials being undertaken by Align Farms, ten linked dairy farms in mid-Canterbury.
Kaipara: Regenerative agriculture introductory field day
A chance to explore your curiosity about regen agriculture and contribute to the formation of a new group for Kaipara farmers.
Taranaki: Dairy farming & soil monitoring field day
Brooke Laurence shared her regen farming journey with Phil Grey introducing Soil Foodweb and Cynthia Northcote speaking about Diet Decoder for assessing animals’ nutritional needs via pasture testing.
Hawke’s Bay: Regenerative agriculture curiosity and monitoring field day
A chance to satisfy your curiosity about regen agriculture and learn directly from farmers.