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Running the farm

This section of the website holds articles on everything you need to know about running your lifestyle farm. Choose from the menu on the left to browse our articles.

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Disposal of wastewater on small lifestyle blocks

As the lot sizes are smaller than in the past your neighbours are closer than ever, therefore what you do directly impacts on your neighbours.

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Keeping your hedgecutting contractor happy

Advice from a hedgecutting contractor

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How to do a soil test

Fertiliser is the most expensive input on most farms – so you can’t afford to make mistakes or get ripped off through ignorance.

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Fixing leaking dams

When earth dams leak, you first have to find out where the water is escaping.

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Young tree maintenance during the Summer

Its not the time to be complacent with your young trees especially in these warm conditions. Here’s a few tips:

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A Simple Headbail

A simple headbale you can make yourself.

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Trees

Trees will enhance the value of any property - big farm, small farm, lifestyle block, public park, roadside.

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Log splitting

They say that firewood warms you twice; once when you burn it and once when you chop it.

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Chainsaw maintenance

Chainsaws are not cheap to run, but they get really expensive with neglect and lack of servicing. 

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Chainsaw safety

The chainsaw is the most dangerous tool on the farm, and its potential for damage to life and limb is underestimated every day.

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ATV Skills

It's important to understand how to ride an ATV safely.

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Tractor Skills

Unguarded machinery shafts have caused death and injury to many adults and children.

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Farm bike skills

It is important you have a thorough knowledge of the way your bike operates before you start riding it.

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Growing Apples (Malus domestica)

Apples have been eaten for thousands of years and the number of varieties is staggering.

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Codling moth

Codling moth is one of the most common pests in New Zealand orchards.

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Planting your fruit (and nut) trees

There is an old saying that you put a $1 tree in a $10 hole. Inflation may adjust the figures but it still holds true. Put tenfold the effort into planting and you set your tree up for life.

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Truffles

Truffles are types of edible mushrooms (fungi) that grow on the roots of certain trees.

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Growing Bananas

New Zealanders spend significantly more on bananas than any other fruit. On average, each family consumes 18kg of imported bananas every year.

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Fruit facts - Almonds

The almond is a dry-fleshed cousin of a peach with a tasty kernel. It is one of the first trees to blossom in spring and is long-lived for a fruit tree, living up to 70 years old.

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Naturally Fruity: Avocados

The avocado fruit has a completely unique taste and can take over 12 months to mature on the tree.

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Rosemary - one of those wonderful herbs …

Rosemary is such an important medicinal and culinary herb it seems that there is a great opportunity for good quality locally grown product. 

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Get a Taste for Growing Fennel

Some years ago I bought a punnet of fennel seedlings from my local garden centre.

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Jerusalem Artichokes

Jerusalem Artichokes are a strange plant, or you could say a wrongly named vegetable.

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Laundry Detergent Does Grow on Trees …

The Soap Nut or Soap Berry is an extraordinary tree that produces a nut with high saponin content.

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Walnuts - Tasty, nutritious & healthy

Ever wanted to make the ultimate statement of self sufficiency at Christmas time?

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Figs

Figs are deciduous and grow to become very large trees - an ideal niche crop on a lifestyle property looking to supply an urban market.

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Growing Chillies

Christopher Columbus was one of the first Europeans to discover Chillies.

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Saffron

Saffron - Crocus Sativus has been cultivated for its valuable stigma for over 3000 years. Growing saffron is a delicate balancing act.

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Growing Pine Nuts

Pine Nuts not only taste fabulous and are rich in protein, oil and a great source of vitamin B1 (thiamine), but what would pesto be without pine nuts?

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Growing dayliles for plants and flowers

Not only do Daylilies have an extraordinary variety of blooms to enjoy but they are also delicious to eat.

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