Silvereye Organic is a family run, fully Certified Organic business producing hazelnuts and hazelnut products, fruit, vegetables and herbs from their Ladbrooks property and single extra virgin olive oil varieties (Leccino, Frantoio, Manzanillo and Barnea) from their Waipara olive grove.

They have been certified since 2010 and believe in looking after and enhancing the land and waterways to provide healthy environments and food for all and future generation to enjoy.

Email; silvereyeorganic@xtra.co.nz

Community Supported Agriculture (CSA) / Supplying local cafes, restaurants and markets / Off Grid / Golden Bay, New Zealand

We grow a approximately 30 different types of vegetables and many varieties of each.

Our contact information:

info@puramahoifields.com
www.puramahoifields.com
www.facebook.com/puramahoifieldscsa
www.instagram.com/puramahoifields

What is Kokalito

Kokalito Fine Foods is a family-based grower and producer of organic vegetables and specialty foods, which we supply to restaurants, catering companies and the retail market. Our mission is to provide customers with nutritious, high quality produce that has been grown and processed with the environment in mind.

The Kokalito farm is a productive oasis in eastern Golden Bay. Nestled among shelterbelts of mostly native shrubs and trees it hosts one of New Zealand’s largest European Plum plantations, plus a variety of organically grown crops such as hazelnuts, chestnuts, onions and other cash crops. Our most recent addition to the farm is a growing flock of Wiltshire sheep helping us to keep the grass down and producing excellent meat.

Their prunes, vegetable and nut crops are fully Certified Organic. Kokalito has gained a reputation for the quality and flavour of their products and for customer service. Prompt delivery, personal contact and the preparation of custom-made batches for bigger clients have been key to establishing a loyal clientele.

As small artisan food producers we have the flexibility to respond to individual requests, which we find very satisfying and gives us plenty of opportunities to further develop our range of products.

The Kokalito team

Since the early days, Kokalito has been developed with the view of running it as a family enterprise. Our daughters have been involved from a young age in shaping the farm as it is today and are now taking on more prominent roles since completing university degrees and now being young mothers.

While we all have different areas of responsibilities and expertise, we are able to support each other in most roles. We share a passion for good food and enjoy experimenting with dishes prepared from our own produce, for our own pleasure and as inspiration to our customers.

For further info please visit our website www.kokalito.co.nz of email us at finefoods@kokalito.co.nz  – 03 525 8506.  We love hearing from you, either as a customer, or another grower wishing to make contact

We are Gianni and Loraine and together we own and operate Field to Feast Organics, a certified organic market gardens business. All year round we grow a wide variety of fresh, seasonal organic vegetables, fruit and herbs. Our produce is currently certified with OFNZ under Bio-Gro standards.

Our desire to grow fresh, nutritious organic food stems from our philosophy that healthy soils free of chemical residues, pesticides and herbicides is the starting point to healthy food and a thriving and bio-diverse ecology.  So we choose to grow according to certified organic standards to guarantee that our produce that you and your family are consuming is free of harmful chemical inputs.

Our farm is located in Swannanoa, North Canterbury.  We supply most of our produce locally to organic outlets in Christchurch such as Liberty Market and Pikos and you can find us at the Ohoka Farmers Market on Fridays and at Downtown Farmers Market on Sundays in Christchurch central city.

Contact us at:

Email: field2feastorganics@yahoo.co.nz

Mobile Gianni: 027 501 9403

Mobile Loraine: 021 352 332

Dominic Ferretti and Jeanette Ida are Certified Organic growers at Wai-iti River Farm, Brightwater, Nelson on their 4.5 ha farm.  They are third generation growers and deliver quality fresh organic produce.

We grow a wide range of seasonal vegetables selling direct at the Nelson Wednesday and Saturday Farmers Market.  Also supplying FreshChoice Nelson Supermarket, Taste Nature Dunedin, Fresh2U local veg box delivery scheme, and a few other small local businesses.  When availability permits you can also purchase directly from the farm.

Check us out on www.facebook.com/ferrettigrowers

Email: domferretti@yahoo.com

Phone: 03 542 2024 / 0220332891

I’m Karen Harley of Waihora Organics based in Greenpark, 35kms south east of Christchurch near Te Waihora and Banks Peninsula.

Waihora Organics has been certified organic with OFNZ, Canterbury Organic for 12 years.
Currently I produce asparagus and garlic plus a number of herbs and a herbal cold and flu remedy “Flu Brew” (which is available online at my website)

Website: www.waihoraorganics.co.nz
Email: waihoraorganics@slingshot.co.nz
Phone: 03 3297 010  or  021 023 80303

Vedic Organics is nestled under the Mountains in the beautiful, clean Motueka Valley. We are large-scale market gardeners growing on 7 Hectares of restored sheep pasture and undercover in our tunnel house. We use traditional and bio-intensive methods to continuously improve our soil and the quality of our produce.

We grow large quantities of potatoes, carrots, kale, sweetcorn, snow peas, spinach beet and French beans. We also grow strawberries, asparagus, silverbeet, cabbages, lettuce, squash, zucchini, garden peas, beetroot, daikon radish, Swedes, parsnips, pumpkin, tomatoes, eggplants, capsicum, chillies, basil, parsley, coriander, salad mixes, celery and broccoli.

Contact Person: Romany Rutledge

Ph: 03 970 9877 or 021 124 1591

Email: vedicorganicsnz@gmail.com

Web: www.vedicorganics.org

My parents and I bought our little piece of paradise in 2004.  At the time it was a couple of paddocks with an open ditch running through, on the outskirts of Rangiora.  My parents love to garden and so built a house and created a large flower garden based around what is now a pond and tiny stream.  I wanted to grow organic vegetables and have been fully certified with OFNZ since 2008.

Everything done at Happy Haven is designed to grow the most delicious and nutritious veges, while protecting and enhancing the environment.

This is done through some key practices:

1. Maintaining humus (the ultimate source of all our food supply) and soil health, through pasture and leys of clover and herbs.  These are part of a sustainable rotation with the vegetables and are grazed by sheep.  The sheep also love eating any spare veges they can get!
2. Balancing soil nutrients to maximise soil life and to optimise the healthful nutrition of vegetables, using helpful fertilisers.
3. A wetland area and habitats to attract birds and insects.
4. Protecting soil and fossil fuels by minimising cultivation.
5. Conserving water resources by limiting irrigation and using soil water conservation techniques.
6. Using heirloom varieties whenever possible.  These are usually more nutritionally dense and contain nature’s genetics for future generations.
7. Supplying local organic vegetables to the Canterbury area!

Learning the art of growing is a fun, exciting and lifelong challenge!

Canterbury Organic is a close, local community.  We are always happy to help out new growers.

Raymond Garb.

Tel : 027 208 5199