News from live2give

We love visiting other vegetable growers, and whenever the opportunity arises, we seize it! Two w...

It’s a beautiful sunny morning here at our farm, and we’re excited to be out in the fields, harve...

As we head into winter, we're busy planting the last of the broccoli for early spring harvest and...

Last Thursday we enjoyed a lively exchange with like-minded farmers and researchers during our an...

We’re excited to be working with a PhD student, mentored by Massey University, who has been award...

☀️ We love sunny, autumn mornings on the farm! We’re super happy that this beautiful organic Cavo...

We wrapped up our pumpkin harvest last week, and the storeroom’s looking full and beautiful. All ...

Super fresh, dense, organic Wong Bok is back! Perfect for stir-fries, dumplings, spring rolls or ...

We have delicious Hokkaido, Crown and Buttercup - all straight from our organic farm. And the But...

Enjoying a special evening light at the farm. All the mulch spreading is done and the ground is r...

We’re making the most of the last warm days by getting as many plants in the ground as possible! ...

Our transplanter comes with its own irrigation, watering the seedlings right after they have been...

In our trial we are currently comparing leeks grown with and without organic mulch. Last week we ...

We are just harvesting our first organic leeks of the season - tender and mildly sweet, with a de...

Root-spreading and perennial weeds are a serious challenge in mulch systems with reduced tillage....

As you might remember this is our newest 'farm toy'. The MulchTec-RotoSeeder combines a reversing...

Sunny summer weather is perfect time to pull out our onions for field drying ... Once the leaves ...

It's a busy time of the year at the farm. We love the high season vibe where everything needs to ...

Look how much our buckwheat cover crop has grown. We sowed it on 16 Dec and will be able to plant...

We're in the swing of the season. Yay! Really happy we can use the Mulch-tec Rotoseeder and a hir...

Last week we planted leeks. Some of these 15,000 seedlings were planted in our trial area. We re...

You might remember we planted these in the beginning of October. A lot of rain at the beginning o...

Last week's email we shared how we had used the sunny days to the fullest spreading transfer mulc...

We were busy hoeing our lettuces this past week. The secret is to watch for weed cotyledons (the ...

We're super happy that our first lot of cucumbers are in the ground. The photos above show the wh...

As spring is in full swing, our trial site is being prepared for new season crops. The preparatio...

Busy, busy at the farm. On Friday we planted the first of our summer cover crops using the MulchT...

We've been busy this last week preparing beds for celery planting. The cover crop of Faba Beans, ...

The season has taken off everyone! We're busy sowing and planting any days that are dry enough to...

This innovative machine has just landed from our workshop in Germany where it was built by farmer...

You might remember these two photos of Rob planting herbs last December. We've given them a decen...

Our Live2Give broccoli planted back in Autumn is maturing! This week we'll have our first harvest...

After periods of heavy rainfall we could finally kick the new season off with preparations for ou...

Bottom right pic - our autumn cover crop looking good and almost ready to plant into. 🤩 We are so...

We had great two days of coming together as a team and harvesting all of our organic cabbage. We ...

Our cover crops are coming along. We'll be planting leeks here in October. In the meantime you ca...