Alastair Cole and Sustainable Farming
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Alastair Cole from New Zealand Landcare Trust has worked with local farmers for many years, on strategic ways to improve sustainable farming practices.
In this interview he discusses some of the challenges associated with adopting sustainable farming practices in New Zealand and what the future might look like. New Zealand has many advantages in being an educated and innovative community of small scale and diverse agricultural producers. |
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Murray and Melinda Jones - Biodynamic Farming
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Murray and Melinda Jones run a 150 acre organic farm on the banks of the Whanganui river using biodynamic principles.
Within this interview Melinda discusses the background of biodynamic farming, the use of preparations and creation of composts. Murray also demonstrates stirring preparations. Through love and thoughtful action the couple have transformed their property into a thriving oasis of productivity. |
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Murray Jones - Pruning and training of fruit trees and orchard design
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Murray Jones of TreeLife Organic Nursery in Whanganui demonstrates pruning and training or fruit trees and design of an orchard.
He is a pioneer of biodymaic and organic horticulture in New Zealand with decades of experience establishing orchards within a wide range of situations. Within this video he kindly shares his insights into pruning and training fruit trees, treatment of cuts and orchard planning and management. |
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Organic Dairy at Lindsay Farm
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Lindsay Farm is a pioneering organic dairy farm in Hawkes Bay of New Zealand.
Within this video brother and sister managers of the farm share their insights into establishing pasture diversity and soil health through adopting est practices in grazing management and increasing sward diversity. Their fertile farm and happy cows reveal the advantages of their approach. |
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Gary and Emily Williams on Permaculture Design
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Gary and Emily Williams on New Zealand's Kapiti Coast play a leading role in pioneering permaculture design in New Zealand.
Within this interview they discuss how they developed their permaculture design business through experimentation in the development of their own property and applying the lessons to consultancy work on a diverse range of other properties in New Zealand. |
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Gary and Emily William
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Join us on this fire side chat with Gary and Emily Williams, as they discuss the development of permaculture in New Zealand, the rise in large scale projects and the challenges faced by the future development of permaculture.
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Mark Christensen - Heritage Food Crops
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Mark Christensen of Whanganui is a man on a mission to find heritage varieties of crops that have the highest medicinal potency for combating cancer and promoting optimal health.
His property on the outskirts of urban Whanganui features a diverse orchard, glasshouse and variety of trial plots where he strives to find new varieties of heritage crops that offer the highest medicinal value. Within this interview he provides a tour of his property, discusses seed saving techniques, his research on medicinal foods and his insights into establishing crop diversity. |
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Tony Robinson on building life-rich soils for growing nutrient dense food
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Tony Robinson brings a wealth of experience working on a wide variety of soil improvement stratergies to establishing life-rich soils for growing nutrient dense food.
In this interview we cover how to analyse soil health, improve their health through carefully chosen amendments, monitor health of plants and cropping strategies for best yields. There is a wealth of information in this one. |
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Greenbridge on Permaculture Designs
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We Talk to Daniel Woolley and Kama Burwell of Greenbridge Design and Implementation in Taranaki, New Zealand.
They have worked hard at establishing a professional permaculture design business in New Zealand and discuss the challenges they have navigated, the intentions of permaculture design and rewards they have experienced. Their is a wealth of information in this one of applying the principles of permaculture design to the New Zealand farmscape. |
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Regenerative Farming at Family Farm
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Greg and Rachel Hart are dedicated practitioners of regenerative farming practices to restore ecosystem health of their Hawkes Bay Farm.
The Mangarara Family Farm vision has four parts:
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Whanganui Quaker Settlement - Building Intentional Community
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The Whanganui Quaker settlement is an inspiring example of a functional intentional community that has withstood the test of time.
The site spans 20 acres and features a central hub of community buildings and outlying houses, surrounded by gardens, orchards, grazing paddocks and native forest laid out in a permaculture zone style. The site hosts Agrifutures series of Permaculture Design Certificate workshops and offers first class facilities and many hands on educational opportunities. In this video they discuss their values, design of the site and the challenges and rewards of living in community. |
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Nelson Lebo - Healthy homes and resilient farms
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Dr Lebo brings a wealth of experience in permaculture design to the Whanganui community and acts as an Eco Advisor within the wider Manawatu / Whanganui region.
His role as Eco Adviser is to provide free consultation on home design and retro-fitting to make a healthier living environment and on sustainable living and regenerative farm design. He has also set up an Eco School that offers permaculture internships to learn on a real permaculture farm while obtaining a Permaculture Design Certificate. |
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Daniel Woolley - Permaculture Design for a Client
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Daniel Wooley of Greenbridge describes the design process they undertake with clients to develop sustainable housing and farm systems based on permaculture in Taranaki.
Daniel Wooley and his Greenbridge team have showed great resilience and a pioneering spirit in introducing these services as a new market in New Zealand and see great prospects for the future development of their business. Join Daniel at a site his team has designed as he discusses some of the considerations with creating a permaculture style farm design. |
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