Building Natural Capital Tour 2025
- nextlevelgrazing
- Mar 16
- 2 min read
John King and I are on the road on the North Island of New Zealand sharing ideas to help farmers lift natural capital on farm. Natural capital includes profit centres like fertile topsoil and water holding ability, but also the entire ecosystem that builds these things. Along the way we are meeting farmer superhero's who are being good ancestors today so their children and grandchildren will have the natural resources they need to support their economies.
The workshop we delivered in Northland was supported by the grassroots organizers at the KRFG & Farming Diversity farming groups. Quorum Sense helped sponsor. Jarrod and Melanie Atkins were generous enough to have the group out to their budding permaculture/pastoral farm where they have planted hundreds of native and food producing trees. It warmed my heart to see young people mimicking nature with not only plant diversity, but many species of livestock including dairy heifers, sheep, ducks, and chickens.
We privately visited Gin Point Farm where workshop attendee Anna-Marie Woodcock has helped owners Helen and Grant plant thousands of native plants and exotic trees on farm. The results are already spectacular. Thanks everyone for doing your bit to be good ancestors!
Shout out to James Samuels who showed the film "Roots so Deep" on Thursday night. Check out the resources he has aggregated for regen farmers on his website jamesamuel.com. We also had Logan Wait demonstrate his mobile abattoir, a great opportunity for farmers looking at direct marketing. Learn more at earthfirst.org.nz
Today and tomorrow we are at Mangarara Farm, Hawkes Bay and will head to Stratford for Thursday and Friday then on to Bunnythorpe next week. Sign up at John King's site:
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