
Team Outing
At the end of every year, after all the hard work, we take the young team out for a change of sce...
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Our New Field 🌱
As you may recall, we’re preparing a new field for this season. Over the last few weeks, we were ...
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Live2Give Onion Update
We’re very pleased with the progress of our onions! To ensure top quality and good storage proper...
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Quality Mulch
Despite the very wet start to spring, we’re making the most of every dry day to prepare the beds ...
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Spring Garlic – Fresh from our Farm
Have you ever tried spring garlic? It’s a seasonal favourite - milder and sweeter than regular ga...
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Massey University Trial Update 🔍
The cover crops have grown beautifully in the Massey trial!
As you may remember, the research foc...
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Sowing Time Again!
It’s that time of year again, folks! We’ve been busy sowing Butternut, Crown, Hokkaido, Yumeroman...
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Don't Kill them + Feed them = Abundance of Earthworms 🪱
You might remember this field from our abundant cabbage harvests this year. After the final pick,...
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Onions are in the Ground!
We’re very grateful for the two-week stretch without rain! It gave us the perfect window to prepa...
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Local Spray-Free Oyster Mushrooms
Our neighbours Robert (in the photo) and Rebecca, just a couple of doors down from our farm in Ao...
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Our Organic Lettuce is Back!
We’re excited that our delicious, tender, organic Oakleaf Green Lettuce is ready for harvest agai...
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Living Soil 🪱🪱🪱
As we mentioned last week, our large winter batch of organic cabbage has now been harvested. It w...
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Cold Season, Cabbage Season
We are super grateful for an abundant cabbage harvest this year. We've had fun filling crates and...
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A New Field
We're busy preparing for the new growing season and are excited about another 5.5 acres in conver...
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Massey Cover Crop Research Update 🌱
You might remember that back in April, we shared about collaborating with a PhD student - mentore...
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New Zealand Onions 🧅
It’s that time of year again - we’re starting to run low on New Zealand onions. But don’t worry -...
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Winter Broccoli
We’re happy to still have some fresh winter Live2Give broccoli available for you! 🥶💚 Perfect for ...
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Taking Soil Samples
We regularly collect soil samples in our research area to monitor nitrate levels and enhance soil...
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Sunday Harvest
We’re out in the fields today, harvesting fresh, nutrient-dense organic veggies for your boxes.Lo...
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Our Curly Kale
Our nutritious, organic curly kale has been very popular.🌿 It's a great versatile superfood for w...
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Winter is Here!
Winter has definitely arrived. We felt it this morning while harvesting the leeks — cold and cris...
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At our Farm...Behind the Scenes
Visual Soil Assessment & Aggregate StabilityHealthy soil is the foundation of productive farm...
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Delicious Organic Live2Give Celery
🌿 Take a peek at our celery field on a perfect sunny harvest day! 🌞🌞🌞Our organic celery is bursti...
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Team Road Trips
We love visiting other vegetable growers, and whenever the opportunity arises, we seize it! Two w...
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Good Morning from Live2Give Farm! ☀️🌻☀️
It’s a beautiful sunny morning here at our farm, and we’re excited to be out in the fields, harve...
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Live2Give Farm Autumn Update
As we head into winter, we're busy planting the last of the broccoli for early spring harvest and...
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Field Day for Professional Farmers
Last Thursday we enjoyed a lively exchange with like-minded farmers and researchers during our an...
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Collaborative Research with Massey
We’re excited to be working with a PhD student, mentored by Massey University, who has been award...
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Cavolo Nero is back!
☀️ We love sunny, autumn mornings on the farm! We’re super happy that this beautiful organic Cavo...
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Pumpkin Harvest 2025
We wrapped up our pumpkin harvest last week, and the storeroom’s looking full and beautiful. All ...
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Organic Live2Give Wong Bok is Back!
Super fresh, dense, organic Wong Bok is back! Perfect for stir-fries, dumplings, spring rolls or ...
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Live2Give Pumpkin Selection
We have delicious Hokkaido, Crown and Buttercup - all straight from our organic farm. And the But...
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Ready for Planting
Enjoying a special evening light at the farm. All the mulch spreading is done and the ground is r...
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More Plants are in the Ground!
We’re making the most of the last warm days by getting as many plants in the ground as possible! ...
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Planting & Irrigating
Our transplanter comes with its own irrigation, watering the seedlings right after they have been...
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Mulch and Temperature Regulation
In our trial we are currently comparing leeks grown with and without organic mulch. Last week we ...
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