The Food Farm

22/07/2026

🌿 Mid-Winter Get Together & Fundraiser 🌿

The CHS Garden Club Representatives warmly invite all garden lovers to a special Mid-Winter Get Together & Fundraiser on Wednesday 22 July at the Tai Tapu Community Centre.

Enjoy a delicious finger-food lunch, hot drinks, inspiring guest speakers and demonstrations, plus a fantastic range of raffles and sales tables featuring plants from Behind the Hedge, garden products from Clark Cultivator, Hungry Worms/Uncle Bob's, Wood and Wire art by Dawn Mundt, and Angela Clifford's latest book on The Food Farm.

Guest speakers include:
🌱 Angela Clifford – regenerative farmer, food advocate and co-author of The Food Farm
🌸 Sue & Kate from Behind the Hedge – specialists in alpines, perennials and unusual bulbs
💐 Elizabeth Jenkins – sharing creative winter floral ideas to brighten the season

📅 Wednesday 22 July
🕙 10.15am–3.15pm (doors open 9.30am)
📍 Tai Tapu Community Centre, Ahuriri Room
💲 $40 per person (includes lunch and refreshments)

Bookings are essential and close 17 July. Numbers are limited and there will be no door sales.

To book, email [email protected]. We hope to see you there for a wonderful day of gardening inspiration, good company and fundraising! 🌿

22/07/2026

We have until midnight tonight (Wednesday) until our crowd-funding for free & low cost workshops ends! Can you help us get to our stretch goal of 120 donors? The amount doesn't matter - as the matching multiplies more, the more people we have. So close now! 🙏🏽

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Bringing Food-Growing to EveryoneFor the last nine years, we've been teaching people to grow their own food -from small gardens to large-scale farms. From soil health to food forest establishment,...

03/07/2026

We have the most amazing opportunity to offer no & low cost workshops for community organisations, schools and others who find cost a barrier. But we need your help! For the next 3 weeks we're part of this fundraising that sees everything we raise matched by the Ma Earth platform. It's called Quadratic funding. This means lots of small donations raise more than a few larger ones. Even $5 has an out-sized impact! Help us help more people learn to grow food, soil & biodiversity:

Bringing Food-Growing to EveryoneFor the last nine years, we've been teaching people to grow their own food -from small gardens to large-scale farms. From soil health to food forest establishment,...

25/04/2026

Join us next Sunday May 3rd here on The Food Farm for a composting & soil health workshop.

Soil is the answer to more problems than you think. This is the year to make sure you can grow lots of nutrient dense, good food. It's also a time to ground yourself and invest in your own sense of calm.

We'll look at everything from hot composting, bins, bokashi, biochar, cover crops, fermented plant teas, lacto-bacillus brews, leaf mould, cover crops and lots more!

Whatever your situation we'll find a soil fertility solution - so you don't have to resort to expensive, bought-in compost of dubious quality and excessive plastic (including microplastics).

https://events.humanitix.com/soil-health-and-compost-making

20/03/2026

You can make some clever moves right now that will help improve your food security over the coming months.

1. Spend some time this weekend finding your local food system. Food Secure North Canterbury have it all mapped out for you on their website https://foodsecurenc.org.nz/find-our-food-system/ . These short supply chains use less fossil fuels and are more resilient to global shocks.

2. Grow your own food. It's not too late to sow spinach, winter salads and Asian greens. They'll do even better if you sow them in a tunnel house or large pots in a warm spot. You can buy seedlings of brassicas and transplant them now for spring eating. Garlic and broad beans can also be sown over the coming months.

3. Cook more from scratch. Even if it's just a quick and easy dish, adding another as you're able. Fresh ingredients have less food miles and use less packaging. Plastic is made from petroleum.

4. This is the perfect time of year to make compost, gather ingredients like autumn leaves, ferment teas and generally build soil fertility. We have a soil health and composting workshop coming up on May 3rd if you want to improve your skills. https://events.humanitix.com/soil-health-and-compost-making

A much better bet than relying on synthetic fertiliser (also made from fossil fuels).

5. Self sufficiency is not the goal, community sufficiency is. If you have abundance now, share it with friends and neighbours. We're all in this together, and we have enough to get us through when we work collectively.

24/02/2026

We're super excited to be short-listed in the NZ Book Lovers Awards! NZ Booklovers

21/02/2026

Just 4 tickets left for our Harvesting & Preserving workshop next Sunday March 1st:

Everything you need to know about harvesting & preserving the food you've grown this summer, to make the most of your efforts.

19/09/2025

Last chance to grab our book on pre-release. So close now!

https://www.thefoodfarm.nz/listings/1423536-the-food-farm-book-pre-sale

14/07/2025

We're super excited to announce that we've written a book!

65 of our most foundational recipes.

A seasonal guide to food growing.

Techniques for everything from preserving to sour dough baking, butchery to home dairy.

Tips from food forest establishment to fruit harvesting and seed saving.

Stories of seasonal living and local food system support.

This is our download of twenty years of life on our Permaculture property in North Canterbury, Aotearoa NZ, a teaching farm where we help others learn how to grow and cook food.

You can pre-order it now!

https://www.thefoodfarm.nz/listings/1423536-the-food-farm-book-pre-sale?page=home