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Piloting net-zero dairy - Tour & Talk

Free admission, spaces limited, please register here.

Check out Dairy Trust Taranaki’s net-zero pilot farm aiming to optimise the farm system using methods such as insetting for carbon sequestration and exploring new technologies.

Free admission, spaces limited, please register here.

Hear about the benefits, challenges, what’s involved when buying land as a group and how the arrangement works for the three families who purchased the Ahu Ahu seafront section.

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Hear from owner Jane Bowden-Dobson and builder Jeff Fairweather as they share the pros and cons of building with rammed earth, the build process and what it’s like living in a passive design home made from natural materials.

Culinary & medicinal herbs - Tour, Talk & Tasting

Admission: $5 cash including tasting Limited spaces available - please register here.

Guided tour of the Blue Petal culinary and medicinal herb fields and drying facilities, followed by tasting of herbal and medicinal products.

Free admission, limited numbers - please register here.

Guided tour of parts of the farm, highlights include seeing retired gullies reverting back to native bush and pine, established fenced waterways with riparian planting and regenerated wetlands.