Directory
The Riverton Organic Food Co-op has been run for more than 30 years by volunteers like Denis
Welcome to our member directory - here you will find growers and land-based businesses and retailers who are a part of growing better food systems and land-use systems in Aotearoa, and who directly support the work of Village Agrarians.
We are excited to promote these businesses and enterprises, and to highlight the links between and the ways that they support other businesses like theirs across the country.
If you are a locally focussed food producer or retailer in Aotearoa, become a business member and be listed on the directory! To find out more about becoming a member please visit our membership page.
Map of Directory Listings CSA Directory
Market Gardens - Meat - Dairy - Seeds - Value Added - Grocers - Cafes - Restaurants - Community Gardens - Farmers Markets
Te Ika-a-Māui/North Island
Grow Space - Morningside, Auckland
Lux Organics - Ngongotahā, Rotorua
Tikitere Farm - Rotorua
The Eastern Field - Rotorua
Setha’s Seeds - Online shop, Napier, Hawke’s Bay
JJ’s Organics - Napier, Hawke’s Bay
Tomtit Farm - Matangi, Hamilton, Waikato
Raglan Growers Market - Raglan, Waikato
Te Wai Pounamu/South Island
Earthly Greens - Takaka, Golden Bay
Laughing Pūkeko Organics - Lincoln, Canterbury
Ōtautahi Commons Trust - Ōtautahi Christchurch, Canterbury
Grow Wanaka - Wanaka, Otago
Hampden Half Acre - Hampden, Otago
Waewae Permaculture - Ōtepoti, Dunedin, Otago
Ōtepoti Urban Organics - Ōtepoti, Dunedin, Otago
Garden to Market - Ōtepoti, Dunedin, Otago
Fehu Forest - Otautau, Southland
Riverton Organic Food Coop - Aparima, Riverton, Southland
Longwood Loop - Western Southland
Aparima College School and Community Gardens - Riverton, Southland
Grow Space
Morningside, Auckland
Grow Space works to improve local food resilience and social equity by contributing to hyper-local, circular, regenerative systems in The Fringe Neighbourhood (Kingsland, Morningside, Eden Valley), Tāmaki Makaurau, Aotearoa.
Our vision is for neighbourhoods to have collective wellness through access to healthy food, social connection and sustainable economic activity. To achieve our vision and mission, we run two initiatives in the grounds of Eden Park. Each initiative is designed around our three Pillars of Change:
· EARN: Run hyper-local, circular, regenerative enterprises to improve local food resilience
· LEARN: Grow capability to improve social equity and support regenerative food systems
· SHIFT: Influence attitudes and build community to deliver systems change so that we have an impact
Morningside Urban Market Garden (MUMG)
MUMG builds the skills of women (with a focus on migrant and refugee background women) to supply produce to local businesses and residents. Located on part of the carpark at Eden Park, our teaching garden is home to our Ako Ako programme which trains women to grow food for sale. Our Earn programme is based at both the teaching garden, and MUMG On Walters site. It provides spray free, hyper-local food to local cafes, restaurants and retail outlets and has created paid work for four people. A key aim is to scale the garden, so it generates profits to invest back into both Ako Ako and Grow Space overall.
Morningside Urban Compost Kitchen (MUCK)
MUCK is a neighbourhood scale compost hub to process waste as close to its source as possible and create a local living compost. Located alongside MUMG on Walters at Eden Park, MUCK offers a neighbourhood composting service to local businesses and residents, runs composting workshops and supplies the MUMG gardens with compost. Muck contributes to the MUMG Ako Ako programme and locals can also buy compost from MUCK. A key aim is to create a locally based, circular solution to processing our neighbourhood organic materials, and contribute to the development of regenerative neighbourhood food systems.
Practices or Certifications: Produced using regenerative practices
Find our Products: You can buy our produce for home from Common Sense Organics, The Nest Kingsland, or through our subscriptions, and Grow at Home range available through our website.
Inputs from: Kings Seeds, Koanga Institute, South Pacific Seeds, Lefroy Valley, Biologix, ActiveVista
Lux Organics
Ngongotahā, Rotorua
Kia ora tatou, we are based in multi-cultural Rotorua at the heart of the sometimes chilly, sometimes sunny central North Island. We've been supplying Rotorua and Tauranga households, shops and hospitality businesses with around 40 types of organic vegetables, microgreens and herbs since 2016. We are a regenerative organic market garden that prides itself on minimal to no tilling, keeping carbon emissions down (e.g. hand tools, electric van) and being fully certified organic (OFNZ 1469).
Practices or Certifications: Produced using organic and regenerative practices, Certified Organic, Electrical vehicle delivery
Find our Products: Join our vege box CSA (by email)
Brown Owl Organics, 197 Ranolf St, Rotorua
Simply Organic, 771 Cameron Road, Tauranga
Be Organics, 6 Tawa Street, Mount Maunganui
Online Shop at Open Food Network
Inputs from: Kings Seeds, Setha's Seeds, Koanga Institute, South Pacific Seeds, Lefroy Valley Seeds, Agrisea, Biologix, Rorisons, ActiveVista, BioRich Compost, Edible Garden.
Find out more: Website, Facebook, Instagram, Online Shop
Tikitere Farm
Rotorua
Small farm growing beef and a trail hazelnut orchard. Recently written a research report on Small scale food growers and their role in NZ's sustainable food future. Read the article here.
Practices or Certifications: Produced using organic and regenerative practices
Find our Products: Via website, beef meat not freighted. Delivery in Rotorua only, or collected if customers travelling through.
Inputs from: Agrisea. Roots, Shoots and Fruits
Find out more: Website, Facebook, Instagram, Online Shop
The Eastern Field
Rotorua
Founded in 2023 by Jemma Ostenfeld, The Eastern Field is a humble seed-saving garden, plant nursery, and vegetable garden consultancy provider based in Rotorua that is dedicated to the preservation of New Zealand's heritage plant varieties.
We aim to strengthen our national food security and sovereignty through the careful cultivation and preservation of our seeds. These seeds are then grown into seedlings and distributed to home gardeners across the Bay of Plenty region. We also collaborate with other heritage seed savers and seed companies in New Zealand to source a diverse range of plant varieties.
We aspire to encourage, educate, and guide people on how to responsibly grow their own flourishing vegetable and seed-saving gardens by providing in-person consultations and one-on-one coaching services.
We are wholeheartedly committed to honouring the seeds by continuing and enhancing their lineage, the land by giving back more than what we receive, and the people by re-connecting them back to ancestral nourishment and way of life.
Practices or Certifications: Produced using organic and regenerative practices, Certified Organic
Find our Products:
Seasonal Seedling CSA subscriptions via our website
Brown Owl Organics, Rotorua
Palmers, Rotorua
Tauranga Farmers Market each Saturday (Aug-Dec & Feb-April)
Setha’s Seeds
Online shop - Napier
We produce high quality New Zealand Heritage Seeds for home gardeners and small scale producers. We mostly produce our own inputs like seeds and compost. On occasion we purchase fertilisers from Environmental Fertilisers.
You can find our products mostly through our website www.sethasseeds.co.nz
And also some retail outlets around the country:
Cornucopia Organics - 221 Heretaunga Street East, Hastings 4122
Natures Nurture - The Organic Grocer - 100 High Street, Waipawa 4210
Edible Gardens - 889 Ashhurst Road, Kelvin Grove, Palmerston North 4470
Thames Organic Shop - 736 Pollen Street, Thames 3500
Tims Garden Shop - 26 Gloucester Street, Nelson 7010
Be Free Grocer - 47 The Square, Palmerston North 4410
Taste Nature - 131 High Street, Dunedin Central, Dunedin 9016
South Coast Environment Society - 154 Palmerston St, Riverton 9822
Greenspace - 20 Tahi Road, Waiheke Island 1081
Seacliff Organics - 301 Vogel Street, Dunedin 9016
Find out more: Website, Facebook, Instagram
Discount for Village Agrarians Community Members: 5% off orders of $30 or more
JJ’s Organics
Napier, Hawke’s Bay
Farm shop - 232 Riverbend Road Meeanee Napier Hawkes Bay
We are a 1.8 hectare growing seasonal vegetables both under cover and field. We have been certified since 1992 and have continued the regenerative practices since that time. We support the Napier HB Farmers Market and have a farm shop on the property. We have accommodation to support the wwooffing idea.
Find our Products at: Hawke’s Bay Farmers Market, Farm Shop open Tuesdays and Thursdays 10am to 5.30pm
Practices: Produced using Organic, Biodynamic, and regenerative practices. Certified Organic.
Find out more: Facebook
Tomtit Farm
Matangi, Hamilton, Waikato
Farm - 66 Webster Road, Matangi
Farm fridge - 165c Matangi Road at the Front Paddock Cafe.
Tomtit Farm is a small veggie patch created in 2019 and run by a couple of friendly farmers, Brit and James. Located in the heart of Matangi, central Waikato, Kirikiriroa, Aotearoa. Our vision is low environmental impact. We farm in a way that builds good soil health. This allows us grow the produce that connects consumers to their farmers and the land that nourishes them. We aim to supply you with affordable sustainably grown produce, selling straight to you, limiting food mileage and food waste. Tomtit Farm provides fresh certified organic vegetables, herbs, salad greens and micro-greens to the local market. Tomtit Farm is all about variety and diversity, you wont find just one type of vegetable here. Tomtits produce is straight from the farm to your dinner plate. All produce is harvested and delivered the next day. Your vegetables will be the freshest in town. If you like the sound of what we are doing we would love to hear from you.
Practices: Produced using organic and regenerative practices, Certified Organic
Open Hours: 24/7 access to produce at our farm fridge located at 165c Matangi Road at the Front Paddock Cafe. We also deliver locally to Hamilton, Matangi, Tamahere, Cambridge and Te Awamutu on Tuesdays and Fridays.
Find our products at: Our drop in Farm fridge / road side stand is located at 165 Matangi Road, Waikato - honesty box system.
Seasonal harvest CSA (Summer, Winter and Spring) , weekly harvest box, online orders via our website. Find out more about the CSA here.
Retailers: Fill Good Cambridge, Wholeheart Queenwood Hamilton, Expleo Te Awamutu, Bin Inn Dinsdale, Bin Inn Hamilton East, The Herbal Dispensary Raglan
Restaurants and Cafes: The Green, Hamilton East, Hamilton
Seasonal Events: PYO Flowers - December - May. Workshops September - May
Raglan Growers Market
Raglan, Waikato
1 Stewart St Raglan
The Raglan Growers Market (RGM) is a joint venture between Whāingaroa Environment Centre (WEC) and iHub Raglan. Our objective is to create a flourishing market where local growers can bring homegrown produce to the wider community, strengthening community food resilience and well-being, supporting the local food grower economy, and contributing to environmental health.
Open Hours: Held weekly Fridays 5-7pm, during daylight hours.
Fresh local produce brought to you by local growers:
Ruapuke Gardens
Raglan Avocados
Raglan Macadamias
Pond Road
Kaiwaka Kitchen
Raglan Falafel
and more
Earthly Greens
Takaka, Golden Bay
Experienced bio dynamic grower producing seasonal vegetables all year. Hands on experience Wwoofing available from next Summer. Earthly greens has grown extensively throughout NZ since 2012. From Kaipara coast to Little river Banks peninsula. Bio dynamic principles and making of preparations, we hold regular workshops. To give you a insight into truthful ways of producing food. Selling at Auckland’s Grey Lynn farmers market to running weekly veggie boxes now into its fourth episode. Earthly greens is well known and received about the country for its taste, shelf life and holistic views to growing foods through sustainable farming. Life force food.
Practices or Certifications: Produced using Biodynamic practices. OFNZ conversion year 2
Inputs from: Sentinel seeds group Canterbury, Kings seeds, Own seeds/local, BD preps inputs.
Produce sold at: Junction Green open air retail every Saturday in Takaka. Some weekly veg boxes. Picks from property available
Grow Wanaka
Community Garden, Education Hub and Vermicomposting Centre
Find us: Community Garden - Wanaka, Otago
Grow Wanaka is a circular model community garden, education hub and vermicomposting centre. We are passionate about community resilience, food security and waste minimisation, with the garden at the center of it all as a welcoming place for people to come and learn, connect, share and grow. We accept household food scraps to maintain our vermicomposting farms, and harvest the vermicast for organic production in the community garden. Produce is shared with volunteers during our weekly working bees, with surplus going back to our community Food Bank, Food for Love and Upper Clutha produce pantries. We hold monthly educational workshops and events, many in collaboration with other community organizations. .
Hours: Saturday Working Bee: Every Saturday 10am-12pm year round.
Hampden Half Acre
Hampden, Otago
Small no-till market garden in Hampden
Practices: Produced using regenerative practices.
Find our Products at: Farm gate sales Saturdays, 9-12 at 66 London St, Hampden. Otago Fresh Milk for salad.
Find out more: Instagram
Waewae Permaculture
Osborne, Port Chalmers, Otago
Waewae Permaculture is a small-scale organic market garden near Osborne, started by Fiona and Lian in 2019. We supply a diverse range of vegetables to the Otago farmers market & to eateries in Dunedin city.
We grow organically to permaculture principles producing a range of colourful vegetables including heirloom varieties. Waewae literally translates as feet/legs but the meaning extends far beyond that to include a place to stand, a place where we feel especially empowered and connected (turangawaewae), our place in the world, home. It also means no tractors and reliance on our legs and feet to get things done around the property! We use regenerative, bio-intensive farming principles on an acre of coastal, river alluvium which we supplement with certified organic compost, our own compost and liquid emulsions. The land for the past 30 years has been farmed on organic principles.
Practices: Produced using organic, regenerative, and permaculture practices.
Find our Products at: Available from October through to July at the Otago Farmers market on Saturday. Roadside stall coming soon!
Find out more: Online shop, Facebook, Instagram
Ōtepoti Urban Organics
Ōtepoti, Dunedin - Otago
The Symbiosis Seed Exchange (under the Ōtepoti Urban Organics umbrella) is a small not-for-profit project that aims to facilitate the exchange of locally adapting, heritage, organic seeds (mostly vegetables) between gardeners in the Coastal Otago bioregion. We do not source seed from - nor sell seed to - gardeners outside our region. The Exchange takes a different approach than many larger-scale seed-growing operations in that it relies on a collective of local growers to save seed of heritage* varieties from their own garden to be returned to the Exchange at the end of the season, processed and packed by an administrator(s) and made available through our website to home gardeners across Dunedin & Coastal Otago.
Alongside the Seed Exhange, OUO also organises seed & plant swaps, workshops, and seasonal newsletters to encourage, educate, and better enable our communities to produce their own food.
*the heritage varieties we sell have been collected from and developed by home and market gardeners in Coastal Otago (and sometimes Southland). We are also developing 'heritage varieties for the future,' by creating local landrace varieties of important vegetable crops to increase our resilience and food security. As we expand, we will also look to offer more perennials, medicinals, pollinator and forest garden plants, with an emphasis on crops that grow particularly well in our bioregion and are not readily available elsewhere.
Find our offerings and more: Ōtepoti Urban Organics website, Facebook
Current seed growers include:
- Waewae permaculture
- Piwakawaka farm
and many others who don't have websites.
You can be a grower too!
Discount for Village Agrarians Community Members: 5% off a purchase of $30 or more
Garden to Market
Ōtepoti, Dunedin - Otago
Urban Micro farm growing across 2 sites. Seasonal, spray free, earth grown , fresh veggies direct from Oceanview, 15 kms south of Dunedin. Selling seasonally to local cafes and restaurants in the city.
Practices: Produced using organic and regenerative practices
Fehu Forest
Otautau, Southland
Market garden / food forest in the process of creation in the heart of western southland. Not yet producing but planning to sell through local vege stall, markets, potentially box scheme and through restaurants
Practices: Produced using organic and regenerative practices
Website and Social Media: Still to be set up
Where do you get your inputs? Koanga and Kings seeds, the Fletts in Scotts Gap for compost, SCES for fruit trees so far
Riverton Organic Food Co-op
Riverton - Southland
154 Palmerston St, Riverton
The Riverton Organic Food Co-op has been selling organically grown food since 1990. It began as a buyers co-op in a volunteers garage, and for the past 30 years has been a bustling not-for-profit organic shop run by volunteers.
The Riverton Organic Food Co-op sells fresh vegetables, herbs and fruits from many local growers and producers including: Aparima College School and Community Gardens, Moodew Cheeses, Last Light Lodge, Cedar Cottage Gardens and more.
Hours: Mon-Sat 10:00-4:30, Sun 1:30-4:30
Longwood Loop
Western Southland
At Longwood Loop, our mission is to re-energize rural communities by enabling small and emerging producers of food and goods to connect with their surrounding communities. We deliver the freshest produce to local communities, and to give as much of the purchase price back to producers as possible, reinvesting in communities around western Southland. Local suppliers include: Benson Lodge Beef, Cedar Cottage, Moodew cheeses, Last Light Lodge, Lindsay Downs Eggs, and more.
Hours: Online shop is open weekly on Mondays from 10am to Tuesday at 4pm, deliveries on Wednesdays.
Aparima College School and Community Gardens
Riverton - Southland
Small school and community garden organically growing a variety of vegetables and fruits with students for the community. Our produce and seedlings can be found at the South Coast Environment Society/Riverton Organic Coop. We are also part of the Longwood Loop via the Open Food Network NZ. If you are in the area, feel free to stop by the gardens and say hi, we would love to share veggies with you!
Find out more: Facebook, Instagram
