“KIA WHANGAIHIA NGA URI – A TINANA, A HINENGARO, A WAIRUA” — To provide sustenance to beneficial owners and their descendants mind, body and soul. Ōpepe Farm Trust has scaled up its commitment to restoring the land and its tribal owners’ reconnection to the land it farms, extending its 84ha regenerative-based rere ki uta rere […]
Livestock eating more than just grass, and given a choice of what to eat, produce better meat and milk, and lead to healthier people, a new study shows. The study by Professor Pablo Gregorini and a team from Lincoln University’s Pastoral Livestock Production Lab is connecting soil, plant, animal and human health. “We’ve done experiments
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Using ancient Māori knowledge of moon phases has shown positive results with regard to pasture growth and riparian planting resilience for Bay of Plenty farmers Miru Young and Mohi Beckham. The farmers were among those who spent two days on the historic Te Kūiti Pā being guided through the Māori lunar calendar at a first-of-its-kind
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Rere ki Uta Rere ki Tai is a project working in the the Waikato, Taupō, and Bay of Plenty regions as part of the Revitalise Te Taiao research programme. Here, they reflect on their research to support and implement farming systems that continue to grow the mana and mauri of soil. Rere ki Uta, Rere
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Farmers interviewed through the place-based Revitalise Te Taiao project share their personal journeys and experience in transforming the soil on their land. Based in the Bay of Plenty and Waikato, the Rere ki Uta, Rere ki Tai project is testing farming methods that aim to enhance the mana and mauri of the soil across 10 dairy farms.
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“We thought artificial fertiliser would fix the soil,” explains dairy farmer Miah Smith of Atiamuri, “not knowing anything about the biology and no-one had taught us from 20 years of dairy farming, we were pretty much at a loss for about three or four years.” Wilith Farm is a forestry conversion that had been farmed
When Miah Smith returned from hearing an Australian woman talk about supporting microbes instead of using synthetic fertiliser on his Atiamuri farm, wife Jenny thought he’d joined a cult. A farmer down the road told Miah he built topsoil through the root system by focusing on the soil biology, and suggested he attend Dr Christine
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