SUSTAINABLE FARMS Overview

Get your feet dirty and step alongside the gumboots of our local farmers and commercial growers. Join us to experience the diverse journeys shaping Taranaki’s future-focused agriculture industry.

What will the future of farming look like? Gain insights into the technologies and techniques of innovative agriculturalists.

Whether it’s seeing regenerative or organic farming in action or a deep dive into dairy and dry stock—or simply checking out the animals—the Farms Trail is for townies and farmers.

Each farm is offering one or more free or affordable tour and talk.

Check out what is on offer on the builds & farms schedule, or full tour details under each property.

Register or purchase tickets for builds and farms tours & events here.

FARMS TRAIL EVENTS

Electrify My Farm

10 Nov  12.30pm-2.30pm (Mon)

Novotel New Plymouth, cnr of Hobson St & Leach St, NP

$15 inc light lunch (free for farmers)

Join Mike Casey, orchardist, entrepreneur and CEO of Rewiring Aotearoa, to find out how to reduce operational costs and how to boost income by generating power.

Meat the Butcher

14 Nov  6pm-8.30pm (Fri)

Clearview Farm, 84 Clearview Rd, Lepperton

$60 inc tapas meal & alcoholic beverage. Bus from New Plymouth available.

Experience a live butchery demonstration showcasing how to break down a whole animal. 

FARMS PROPERTIES

F1. KAHU GLEN

ORGANIC FEIJOA ORCHARD

Talk, tour & tasting

• Certification and regenerative agriculture through livestock and full-cycle farming.

F2: SILK FARM

LIFESTYLE BLOCK

Talk, tour & refreshments

• Lifestyle block with sustainable approaches to stock shelter and grazing.

F3. BUSHLIES FARM

DAIRY GRAZING

Talk & tour

• Restoration of wetlands, springs and ecosystems on the family farm.