WATCH: ‘The Story of Dairy’, from the Savory Institute, features stories from the people who are adopting regenerative practises and holistic management to encourage a new, nature-based era in agriculture. Continue reading Dairy and Regenerative Agriculture
“Remember, weight of earthworms below healthy productive pastures is approximately equivalent to the weight of animals grazing above ground – a thought provoking fact.” Continue reading Earthworms and Soil Health
A useful guide to planting trees to encourage bees on farms has been updated and is available as a free pdf download. Get your copy… Continue reading Planting Trees for Bees Farm Handbook
In our first Members-Only Webinar for 2022, we are delighted to have Wayne Douglas joining us for a look at the many benefits trees have on farms. Continue reading ODPG Webinar: Trees for Farms
After Monday 17th January, our Farm and Commercial Memberships will be returning to full price. If you’re farming in the organic, regenerative or biological farming sectors, or offering related services, join us now to take advantage of a full year of ODPG Membership, with support, advice, education and networking. Continue reading Reduced Price 2022 Membership Ends Monday
A recent article from RNZ brings the welcome news that more and more farmers are switching to organic fertilisers with an eye to the environment. If you’re thinking of switching, check out our list of suppliers. Continue reading Looking to Switch to Organic Fertilisers?
As 2021 comes to a close, we’d like to invite you to join us for the New Year with a special earlybird price. Continue reading An Invitation to Join the ODPG for 2022
Join the ODPG now for 2022, as a farm or commercial member, at a earlybird reduced price, and take advantage of all the benefits of membership. Continue reading 2022 Earlybird Memberships Open
The Organic Dairy & Pastoral Group are pioneers of the oncoming paradigm shift. Providing a step-by-step guide to prepare farmers for the changes ahead is the mission they have been given. They are able to teach, mentor, educate anyone who cares to ask. How to manage the environment and animals without chemicals, antibiotics, urea and common fertilizers is a gift they are able to share. We’re here to help, so come and join us. Let’s get our hands dirty.
Continue reading Earth Supports Life
‘Sustainable Food Systems: Farming through Transitions’ on Wednesday morning and ‘Finn Ross: Regenerating Lake Hawea Station’ next Tuesday. Continue reading Two Free Farming Webinars
As winter has finally turned to spring and the last lambs and calves are born, farmers are planning ahead to the supplementary feeds required when plant growth slows again. In this webinar, Sam will discuss how humates are a fantastic addition to the soil when summer crops are planted. Continue reading ODPG Webinar: Humates, Soil & Summer Crops
If you have something to say about the use of Glyphosate in the environment, here are two links to online Glyphosate actions – one a call for submissions, and the other a petition to reduce usage Continue reading Have Your Say on Glyphosate Usage
This year, the Organic NZ Award ceremony took place online, thanks to uninvited guest, Covid-19, celebrating and honouring the hard work of our organic producers. Continue reading Organic NZ Awards 2021
Many high country sheep and beef farms are already carbon-neutral or very close, as research at AUT discovered last year. It’s just a case of proving it, like Lake Hawea Station did, to become the first carbon-neutral farm in New Zealand. Continue reading New Zealand’s First Certified Carbon-Neutral Farm
With shearing underway on many sheep farms, we’ve unearthed a vintage video about the Bowen Shearing Technique from 1958, featuring a demonstration by Kiwi legend himself, Godfrey Bowen. Continue reading Shear Hard Work
One of the oldest organic institutions – the New Zealand Soil & Health Association – was set up in this country in 1941, and so this year marks 80 years since it first began! Continue reading 80 Years of Organics in New Zealand
The Ericksons “make it a point to pay close attention to all four realms of soil function: soil biology, minerals, energetics, and the plant-soil relationship.”
Find out more about how the Jenny and Steve got into farming and how they run their farm and compost business in this Thriving Farmers Podcast. Continue reading Soil Management, Compost Tea, and Farming – A Podcast with The Ericksons
To help make sense of how carbon fits within our farming systems, Phyllis Tichinin – soils consultant, eco-nutritionist and former organic dairy support farmer – will be joining me for this webinar. The main focus will be on the connection between fertiliser applications, pasture qualities, methane emissions and soil carbon. Continue reading ODPG WEBINAR: Soil, Cows and Carbon
With cereals, organic meat and milk, eggs and honey and a zero-plastic commitment, the Good Farmers New Zealand range has the potential to expand as more ‘good farmers’ with small to medium-sized farms sign up to supply the collective. Continue reading Good Farmers New Zealand
We would like to say a big thank you to every single one of our Commercial Members for joining the ODPG this year. They enable us to support our organic and regenerative farmers with advice, resources, webinars, workshops and conferences. Please do offer your support back by choosing their products and services wherever you can… Continue reading Supporting our Suppliers