Our market garden

Growers of spray-free veggies and salad greens.

Grown & packed here is Southland. Distributing in Southland & Otago.

Just because we don’t have enough on our plate (excuse the pun!), we recently decided to embark on a journey to grow spray free food on our farm.

It’s been an amazing journey so far……….

In August 2020 we started to clear and prepare the area of land we wanted to use and started to grow seedlings in our nursery.

Plots and Beds were then formed.

November 2020 we had our first mini harvest of salad greens and radishes.

Welcome Rock Gardens is a unique bio-intensive market garden located in Southland 45 minutes South of Queenstown. We are growers of spray free veggies and salads using natural growing methods and only hand powered tools.

Welcome Rock Gardens is a micro-farm using a bio intensive cropping system. Based on low-tech, high-yield methods of production it uses an area of land approximately 1/4 of an acre.

We are a sustainable small scale farm, using unique food systems to produce high quality produce to our local communities. Our methods focus around bio-intensive, spray free, human scale natural growing procedures to build soil structure and life.

We are caretakers of the land and want to improve its condition for the future and increase productivity in a healthy sustainable way. We wish to create a place and produce that other people can share and enjoy and ultimately benefit from in some way.

What makes us unique!

• We are Spray free ~ no herbicides or pesticides

• No synthetic fertilisers used

• We use organic/natural growing methods

• No till - this means we are working to build the soil life & structure without disturbing the soil through tillage (ecological farming)

• Locally grown here in Southland

• No fossil fuel used - this is human-scale farming, we only us human-powered tools

• Working to foster the local food and agriculture community

• Promoting a healthy lifestyle / health benefits - tied in with Welcome Rock (our way of life)

• Bio-intensive farming - we focus on organic agricultural systems to achieve maximum yields from a minimum area of land whilst simultaneously increasing biodiversity and sustaining the fertility of the soil.

• Small business supporting other small businesses

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Thanks, Welcome Rock Gardens