Our Farmers & Artisans
Boring Oat Milk (AKD)
Boring was founded by Morgan Maw. Originally from Taranaki, she’s a big fan of New Zealand and loves heaps of things that New Zealand is really good at like nature and tramping and birds and the beach. Boring oat milk isn’t made anywhere fancy like Sweden, it’s proudly made in Hawke’s Bay. This means that the only overseas journey our oats make is from the South Island to the North Island, where they get processed along with our other ingredients into delicious and nutritious oat milk.
Creative Cooking
In 2017 Nikki Van de Laar began to make “seed only” crackers when she couldn’t find any on the market that were low in carbs, high in protein and actually tasted good. These crispy Superseed Crackers are a totally unique addition to the market. Containing no flours or fillers, they are gently baked in small batches until crispy. Containing only organic seeds, nuts, herbs, olive oil and seasoning, they are super healthy and taste amazing! They are a tasty way to get nutrition on the go or as an exciting addition to a platter.
New Leaf Kombucha
Derek and Ariel washed ashore in New Zealand after sailing here as a family from Seattle, USA, in 2015. Ariel studied at Wellpark College and got her diploma in Naturopathic Nutrition and Derek took a professional brewing course at America's oldest beer school, the Siebel Institute. Derek began brewing beer and Ariel began pushing him into brewing kombucha. He finally made the switch and started focussing all his attention on brewing the best organic kombucha. Unlike supermarket kombucha, New Leaf never add any flavourings, colourings or preservatives. And they believe you can’t make good kombucha with bad tea , so they import organic tea leaves directly from growers around the world. Being tea importers ensures the freshness and quality of the tea leaves they brew with. All the teas they use are certified organic or are organically grown with direct contact to each farmer. As Derek says "Pesticides don’t know when to stop killing and we don’t want them in our kombucha!" They small batch brew everything on site right here in Auckland with just four ingredients: filtered water, organic tea leaves, organic cane sugar, and their organic kombucha culture.
The Little Organic Egg Co of NZ
Pip and Brian of The Little Organic Egg Co of NZ are super proud of their organic farm and the ultra high quality eggs it produces. Brian is 3rd generation egg farmer with heaps of knowledge and a truly love for their chickens! Pip is from a farming background and focuses on sustainability, environmental science and waste minimisation. They are a true social enterprise at heart.
Savour Organic Nut Cheese
Savour is a boutique enterprise operating out of a small commercial kitchen, surrounded by a large organic garden in Sandringham, Auckland, New Zealand. Savour cheeses use ethically produced vegan ingredients that are organic and locally sourced where possible. Don’t deprive yourself. Auda, the founder, believes any dietary change should never make you feel as if you’re missing out. Always try to include new healthy options before removing foods you crave that aren’t so good for you. Your body develops the intuition to recognise what it needs and you start to crave what’s healthy, not what’s a habit. Probiotics are truly wonderful at awakening your body’s inner wisdom, and Savour cultured nut cheese is a delectably more-ish way to get those probiotics into your diet.
Untamed Earth Organic Farm
Penny, Isaac and Ollie have worked together on organic veggie farms around Canterbury for years. Long days in the field have provided fertile ground to chat about what matters to us. We questioned what we do, and why we do it. We are a group of organic farmers driven by our passions: a love for the natural world, great tasting food and feeding the people in our community. Caring for the soil, the world around us, and the people in our community is at the heart of what we do.
Ceres Organics
Ceres strives to make organic, biodynamic and GE-free food available to all. They source only quality products that are sustainably produced by organic or biodynamic methods, thereby creating a distribution chain that is both ecologically and socially responsible. Their status as a founding member of the GE-Free communities attest to their social responsibility. They were also the first New Zealand company to become EcoSocial certified, an organic fair trade certification. They endeavour to run the company in a conscientious way, believing that each person who works with them has specific abilities to contribute that are required to help the company survive and grow.
Mahurangi Honey
Stacey & Pete have a small beekeeping business with apiaries in the beautiful Mahurangi West Peninsular. They are earth conscious people who use traditional and organic Beekeeping practices. Beekeeping has been a life long hobby recently turned into an artisan business with hives situated close to home, producing a smaller carbon footprint. They love doing something so beneficial to the well-being of others, ourselves and our world. And most importantly, they do it all for the love of bees...
Foundry Chocolate
David and his wife Janelle are the magicians behind Foundry Chocolate, New Zealand's newest craft chocolate maker. And just like the world’s finest single malt distilleries and craft vineyards, the Mahurangi-based chocolate maker is dedicated to capturing the unique character of origin. Foundry’s meticulous bean-to-bar process uses only two ingredients, cacao beans and organic sugar, to make dark chocolate with a myriad of flavour notes ranging from honey to ripe tropical fruit, warm spices to hints of caramel. Beans are sourced from the world’s most expressive cacao growing regions - Peru, Tanzania, Colombia, Papua New Guinea, Bolivia and Ecuador, and are skilfully handled to produce distinctive flavours that must be tasted to be believed.
The Cheese Barn
The Cheese Barn, owned and operated by Kelvin and Cathy Haigh has been a local family business for over twenty years. Kelvin is the principle cheese-maker and Cathy manages the cheese side of the business. They have a small and dedicated team who assist them in making, packaging and labeling the cheese. Their BioGro certified organic cheeses and yoghurt's are unhomogenised, gluten free, have no GMO, no artificial additives, no antibiotics or growth hormones and no chemical sprays. They are the home of Champion award winning cheese since 1994. They make a range of cow milk cheeses including: Traditional Dutch Gouda, Edam, Feta, Camembert, Brie, Halloumi, Blue, Mozzarella, Natural and Stevia Sweetened Liquid Yoghurt, Lactose Free Yoghurt, Greek Yoghurt, Quark, Cottage Cheese, Butter & Ghee.
Fresh Gardens
Fresh Gardens grow biogrow certified organic greens, herbs and vegetables for market, but they also raise pigs, chickens, ducks and sheep for themselves. It works well on both paddock and plate. The pigs and chickens get to eat excess veges, and their manure goes into the compost pile to nourish the next crop.
Bostock Brothers Organic Chicken
Ben and George Bostock grew up on their family’s organic apple orchard in sunny Hawke’s Bay and share a family passion for healthy, safe growing practices where there is control from the farm to plate. This means no chemicals, no antibiotics, no hormones and no genetic modification. The brothers are determined to give their organic chickens the best life. Their apple orchard provides the perfect environment to farm organic chickens. The birds enjoy a happy life roaming freely among the apple trees and are housed in uniquely designed french chalets, which are clean and spacious and enable the chickens to roam freely outside once they are fully feathered.
Clevedon Valley Buffalo Company
Clevedon Buffalo Co., owned and operated by Richard and Helen Dorresteyn, farm 150 head of buffalo for their porcelain white milk. Together they produce award winning fresh buffalo mozzarella, yoghurt, marinated cheese and ricotta. A first for New Zealand. Clevedon Buffalo Co.’s products have won multiple gold medals and awards at national cheese and artisan awards.
Lu Zheng
How many times have you bought tomatoes from supermarket only to find they are tasteless? These days, most tomatoes are grown in hydroponic systems, they look great but are tasteless. Lu Zheng knows that the tastiest tomatoes are the ones that are grown in soil. His tomatoes are fungicide and pesticide free, the plants are watered with rain water collected from the roof of the greenhouse. The crops are grown in the ground of the greenhouse. They are pollinated by bees and Integrated Pest Management is used to minimise pest damage to crops. The system uses natural predator enemies to control pests such as insects, mites and disease.” Lu's tomatoes are harvested in time for us to pick up from his farm in Dairy Flat to deliver directly to you.
The Findlay Family
After 25 years growing commercially, Ivy, Robert and son Andrew are winding down and just harvesting the remaining perennial crops at their property at Otahuhu. The closest market garden and orchard to Auckland city. They used to supply the Parnell and Howick farmers markets with satsuma mandarins, rhubarb, passionfruit, macadamia nuts and figs. We classify them as "Spray Free" because they only use organic sprays (not chemical sprays), but they use conventional fertiliser in their orchards.
ROAR
At ROAR they are all about flavour. If food isn't packed full of flavour – the kind that comes from using only the best ingredients – then why bother eating it? This is why they're passionate about producing raw food with bite. If your taste buds aren't left roaring from the rooftops then they haven't achieved what they set out to do. They source their ingredients locally where possible, and they’re committed to using organic, healthy, raw, vegan, gluten free and nutrient dense ingredients... which all adds up to some seriously good nosh!
Sheldon Vincent
Sheldon grew up on his farm in Northland and has been responsible for converting hundreds of acres to organic.
Kokako
At Kokako quality is paramount and as such they work with various coffee co‐operatives and traders to source green coffee which, once roasted, tastes really good. They back this up with ‘third party verification’ from both Fairtrade and Biogro NZ for the organic status of all of their coffee and drinking chocolate. Relationships throughout the whole supply chain are paramount to them –from the grower, to the co‐op, traders, certifiers, then to their roaster and then most importantly to the customer. For their original house blend Aotea, they batch roast three distinct origins of green beans from Fairtrade cooperatives in Papua New Guinea, Mexico and Sumatra.
Siema Organics
Sione and Gemma moved the family from Auckland City, in December 2017, out to Tikapa Moana (Firth of Thames) to start a new chapter of life. Taking over the mahi of Bill and Marilyn they have continued to work organically on the beautiful subtropical orchard. The family have a passion for organics, permaculture and sustainable living, hoping to be the change they want to see in the world. The 1.2 acre section is bursting with subtropical fruit trees, citrus fruits, nuts, and natives alongside the happy beehives. They supply a range of fruits including; casimiroa, persimmons, tangelos, lemon, limes, plums, apples and avocados as well as walnuts and honey.
Natures Corner
Carl Ebber of Natures Corner is a fifth-generation chicken farmer. It is more than just a 9-5 job for him; it's a vocation. He is passionate about high quality, healthy eggs and is continually learning more about chickens and farming every year. He has 2 small egg farms consisting of small flocks up to 1500 birds. The relationship between the birds and farmer is hands on. They pay staff a living wage. The first is Sunset Farms, which is 100% FREE RANGE, antibiotic free and focused on animal welfare. The second is K&M, which is PASTURE RAISED taking things to a whole new level. Pasture raised means the hens basical live outdoors, forage more of the diet (seeds, worms and bugs) themselves in fresh pasture, have more pasture per bird and are antibiotic free, of course.
Waiheke Herbs
Wendy Kendall’s Waiheke Herb Spread has ‘grown’ out of a passion for good health. A lifelong passion for herbs, healthy living and wholesome food inspired Wendy Kendall to develop a range of products using 100% natural and delicious ingredients to help nourish and heal her family and friends. In 1985, she began a series of courses and workshops in herbalism, nutrition, natural body-care and healing, and was particularly interested in using wild weeds and native plants. She soon began making her own skin-care products, spreads and condiments.
Wild Wheat
Wild Wheat's breads are based on very simple ingredients: flour, water and salt. But with simple procedures there is nowhere to hide if you get it wrong; no way to take shortcuts. Their sourdough loaves take over 48 hours to create from start to finish. This process will never be compromised; nor will their strict rule: no additives or preservatives. Naturally produced bread, naturally good for you.
Tonzu
TONZU products are manufactured the Chalmers family. They are New Zealand’s only certified organic tofu manufacturer, and have been manufacturing organic wholefood products for three generations. Their story began in the 1970s after the unconventional healing of a young family member through alternative nutritional methods (now an owner of Chalmers Organics Ltd). Patience and investigation led them to develop further insights, and a passion for healthy lifestyles and organic sustainable food sources - And so their range of TONZU food products was born. At Chalmers Organics they specialise in the manufacture of traditional and sustainable 100% certified organic food products that are both good for you, and good for the environment you live in. Their products contain no preservatives or artificial additives of any kind.
Venerdi
Venerdi are here to make it a whole lot easier to treat your body to some nourishing goodness every day! They spend their days studying, researching and testing the world’s finest and most powerful ingredients. If they pass the test, they use them to make awesome healthy foods for their fans. So, let them earn your trust; they’ve learnt and felt the benefits and strength of an anti-inflammatory, nutrient rich diet and they’re on a crusade to bring delicious, nourishing foods packed with levels of nutrition that exceed all expectations to help you be the healthiest you.
