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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

2021-11-01T07:00:00.0000000Z

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