Join us at the Oamaru Opera House for our two day Regenerative Agriculture – Practicality & Perspective ‘Not Workshop’ on Thursday 26th (9am-5pm) and Friday 27th (9am-3pm), May 2022.
Morning tea and lunch included, as well as ‘on the ground’ learning at a local farm. Be sure to grab your tickets as we only have 50 tickets available. It’s an event you won’t want to miss!

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.

We don’t believe in the ‘one size fits all’ approach to regenerative farm management, therefore we won’t be giving you ‘the answers’ on how to farm regeneratively. You will discover for yourself what works for your farm as an outcome of the conversations had and tools obtained over these two days of our ‘Not Workshop’.

Rather than providing a definition as an answer to ‘what is regenerative agriculture?’, we’re going to speak to the principles and ethos of regenerative agriculture (or as we like to call it – farming). We will be highlighting the vital shift from a treating symptoms approach to one that is centred around addressing root causes, and creating the space for a new way of operating that requires a new way of thinking in relation to your farm.

We’ll be providing you with the fundamentals of understanding and enhancing ecological functions, relationships & cycles, the power of diversity, and touching on the prevalent carbon conversation, as well as teaching you ways to measure and monitor what’s going on within your farm agroecosystem.

Discussions will be opened up around our current ways of nutrient testing and management, the role of science, and empowering you to be your own ‘scientist’ as custodians of your land.

During the second day, 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. After falling in love with New Zealand in 2016, Siobhan has joined farmers on their journeys learning how to heal our planet with the perspective that Kiwi livestock farmers can be climate hero’s by learning how to heal soil, ecosystems, and water cycles using livestock as a tool.

We’ll be concluding this two-day event looking at the big picture of animal, human, and environmental health & wellbeing, getting present to your vision for yourself and your farm, and addressing the critical conversation of ‘how to grow in an environment where not many others are growing’.

We will be highlighting the exciting opportunity that is here for you to be a superhero in creating a new paradigm for what it means to be a farmer or someone working in the agricultural sector.

Each attendee will receive a booklet covering the main points of conversations had in the two days, and return home curious, inspired, and empowered to take action.