SHANNON WRIGHT
LAND AREA: 2600 square metres (650 square metres under tunnel houses)
SOIL TYPE: Sandy loam
WHERE: Ngāruawāhia, Waikato
FARMING METHOD: Small-scale market garden
PRODUCE: Five to 10 different salad varieties for salad mixes, microgreens, herbs and vegetables, including broccoli, carrots, turnips, onions, leeks, radishes, cabbages, beetroot
MARKET: Direct to customers through veggie boxes and at two farmers markets (Cambridge and Hamilton), local Foodstuffs supermarkets and specialty vegetable shops
MAIN REGENERATIVE PRACTICE: “We only mix in inputs to the top five centimetres of the soil, and our regenerative and biological practices naturally ‘ tickle the system’ to create nutrient- dense soil by feeding the soil life.”
KEY INSIGHT: Feed your soil as you would feed your gut microbiome.
Celebrating Aotearoa / Organic Farming
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2021-11-01T07:00:00.0000000Z
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