Think of a flywheel. A machinery wheel that spins, increasing momentum to provide greater stability or power. Now picture your farm as a flywheel. Your limiting factors create drag on the momentum of the flywheel, on the momentum of your farm.

Many farmers have the notion that the only choice is between fodder beet and kale. But now many are realising that diverse-species crops are far cheaper to produce, leave the soil in better shape after grazing, and make the animals healthier and more content.

“Thank you for an inspiring couple of days and the opportunity to network amongst like-minded farmers. I've never gotten so much out of a workshop - you guys took such a different and refreshing approach...you have helped me find the passion, inspiration, and innovation in farming again”

We’re pretty sure you wouldn’t want to put up with eating lettuce all day every day, a poor immune system, and uncomfortable gut issues.

Your animals feel the same!

Calving is just around the corner, and it’s important to keep your cows in good health, and give your calves a great start in their development.

Although the growth on your farm may be slow during these cooler months, now is the time for you to get creative and plan your management for what you want for yourself and your farm moving forward into the next season and beyond. Ask yourself; am I surfing the wave or just trying to stay afloat? Am I having fun or am I just surviving? Ultimately, am I farming with resilience or resistance?

Soil is so much more than some medium that we grow food in or an ‘empty tank’ that we need to throw nutrients into. Soil is a diverse living community. Soil is ALIVE! And we need to view it and treat is as such. If you’re wondering how to improve soil health and reap the benefits, environmentally and financially, we provide coaching; custom annual coaching plans as well as coaching by the hour.

During the second day of our Regenerative Agriculture ‘Not Workshop’, grazing coach Siobhan Griffin from Next Level Grazing will be speaking with us about holistic planned grazing, or in other words - “how to grow more grass per unit of input through increasing biological diversity”.

Wondering what to expect in our ‘Not Workshop’?

The team, Jono, Jake, & Greer plus special guest and grazing coach, Siobhan Griffin, will be engaging and interacting with you in farm regeneration conversations that leave you with a greater understanding of agroecology and complex ecosystems, equipped with practical tools to utilise, and empowered to take action now, allowing you to create new levels of profitability, resilience, health, and peace of mind.

What do we mean by a ‘Not Workshop’? What we mean is that this won’t be your average, run-of-the-mill kind of workshop. So much so that we’re actually emphasising this fact by calling it a ‘Not Workshop’. This event will be two days of conversation and interaction, where the value you get out of it is a result of your own engagement.

Whilst we will be providing information within various conversations, there will also be practical ‘on the ground’ learning, elements of inspiration, as well as vital perspective shifts that allow you to view your farm differently in ways that create a vacuum for learning and shape your next actions.

The NPL team recently went off the grid for our inaugural annual team get-together, energising us in continuing our commitment to transforming the current paradigm of food production.

The owners of Cracroft Farm, Ruapuna, took over the property less than a year ago with a vision to regenerate the land for themselves and future generations. In just 6 months, soil structure and porosity, smell and aeration, biological activity, and pasture production has clearly improved across the farm.