In 2022, we are working on the implementation of our Paddock Development Project, a raft of integrated new enterprises that will create a huge range of opportunities in our paddocks, for greater food production, education and training, community engagement, biodiversity and carbon sequestration, and job creation.
This includes:
To us, this represents a vision of our food future - community-centred, human-scale, diverse, ecologically-regenerative farming for nourishment, not commodity.
Industrial, fossil fuel-dependent monoculture farming is devastating our ecosystems, our health, and fuelling the climate crisis.
We urgently need a radical transformation of our food system. We need to visualise and create models that show us a different way forward. At Kelmarna, we have a unique opportunity to demonstrate these models in the heart of Aotearoa’s biggest city.
Read on to find out more about our plans and how we got here!
This includes:
- doubling our vegetable production (or more!), with a new Market Garden space
- planting 300+ trees, including fruit trees, natives, and support species
- integrating our sheep with these trees in a silvopasture grazing system
- introducing a rotating flock of 100 pastured layer hens
To us, this represents a vision of our food future - community-centred, human-scale, diverse, ecologically-regenerative farming for nourishment, not commodity.
Industrial, fossil fuel-dependent monoculture farming is devastating our ecosystems, our health, and fuelling the climate crisis.
We urgently need a radical transformation of our food system. We need to visualise and create models that show us a different way forward. At Kelmarna, we have a unique opportunity to demonstrate these models in the heart of Aotearoa’s biggest city.
Read on to find out more about our plans and how we got here!