Visit a Farm

Sunday 9 March 2025

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Cambridge Stud
Waikato, 3283
  • Meet the animals
  • Hosted farm tour

PLEASE REGISTER A TICKET FOR EACH VISITOR, INCLUDING CHILDREN. THE TOUR ONLY HAS THREE VEHICLES WITH CAPACITY OF FIVE PEOPLE IN EACH Visit one of New Zealand’s most famous thoroughbred nurseries. Cambridge Stud has a proud history of breeding champion…

Cornwall Park Farm
Auckland, 1061
  • Hosted farm tour

Take a guided walk through the Cornwall Park farm and chat all things agriculture with our farm manager at our Open Farms day. Discover the rich history of farming at Cornwall Park in this short walk. It is a unique…

Donald's Farm
Auckland, 2576
  • Meet the animals
  • Hosted farm tour
  • Science in farming
  • Machinery display
  • Pasture and/or soil exploration

Donald’s Farm is an educational dairy farm, gifted to NZ Young Farmers in 2018 to connect people with farming. We are working with a number of schools and are excited to continue growing this part of what we do. We…

Earth Stewards Organic Urban Farm
Waikato, 3210
  • Hosted farm tour
  • Science in farming
  • Food and drink on sale
  • Farm shop
  • Vegetable and/or flower planting
  • Compost making

We are small scale certified organic market gardeners situated in Rototuna, Hamilton. We grow vegetables for our local community and have an on site farm shop and CSA box delivery system. We will demonstrate biological, no till, organic vegetable growing…

Earthbound Honey Farm
Auckland, 0782
  • Meet the animals
  • Hosted farm tour
  • Science in farming
  • Food and drink on sale
  • Farm shop
  • Picnic area

JOIN US AT EARTHBOUND FOR A FARM VISIT & HONEY TASTING The tour will go from 3:00pm – 4:30pm. Start in our honey house and enjoy some of our hand harvested honey and honeygar with a special glimpse into how…

Garden to Market
Otago, 9019
  • Hosted farm tour
  • Self-guided walks
  • Science in farming
  • Vegetable and/or flower planting
  • Compost making
  • Crop harvesting

Come and visit Garden to Market this Open Farms day! We are a market garden on the Taieri Plains and we supply many of Dunedin’s leading restaurants with our produce. Garden to Market utilizes regenerative and sustainable agricultural practices to…

Hardyards
Tasman, 7173
  • Meet the animals
  • Hosted farm tour
  • Farming games and fun
  • Vet, catchment, DOC, predator control or other talk

We are a small lifestyle block running Belted Galloway foster cows and calves as well as Valais Blacknose Wiltshire cross sheep. I (Michelle) am on the Ospri Farmer Committee which looks after TB Free NZ, MBovis and NAIT programs. We…

Kaiapoi Food Forest
Canterbury, 7630
  • Hosted farm tour
  • Self-guided walks
  • Food and drink on sale
  • Picnic area

Imagine a park filled with food for you to forage, apples, pears, plums, nectarines just to name a few, berries, vegetables, herbs, rongoa (traditional medicinal plants). We will show you how food forest layer design principles can be replicated on…

Kaicycle Urban Farm
Wellington, 6021
  • Hosted farm tour
  • Farming games and fun
  • Science in farming
  • Pasture and/or soil exploration
  • Compost making

Come along and visit Wellington’s central city urban farm! Tucked behind the hospital, we make compost from city food scraps that we haul in on e-bikes and we demonstrate organic regenerative horticulture that cares for te taiao (nature), te whenua…

Kings Eat Organics
Auckland, 2679
  • Meet the animals
  • Hosted farm tour
  • Farming games and fun
  • Science in farming
  • Machinery display
  • Food and drink on sale
  • Farm shop
  • Picnic area
  • Tree planting
  • Vegetable and/or flower planting
  • Pasture and/or soil exploration
  • Compost making
  • Seed saving
  • Crop harvesting

Welcome to Kings Eat Organics! We’re a BioGro-certified organic farm in Pukekohe, Auckland. I’m Malkiat Singh, and alongside my wife Rajvinder Kaur, our son Gurfateh (six and a half years old), and our daughter Gurseerat Kaur (three years old), we…

Lux Organics
Bay of Plenty, 3010
  • Hosted farm tour
  • Food and drink on sale

On our Open Farm day you will see a working organic market garden with 30+ crops, composting, soil management, farm biodiversity, resilient local food systems, homesteading activities (e.g. home orchard, chickens). All welcome, but must be able to walk around…

Mangaroa Farms
Wellington, 5371
  • Meet the animals
  • Hosted farm tour
  • Nature walk
  • Self-guided walks
  • Farming games and fun
  • Machinery display
  • Food and drink on sale
  • Farm shop
  • Picnic area
  • Pasture and/or soil exploration
  • Compost making
  • Worm farm or insect habitat activity
  • Crop harvesting

It’s that time of year again! In collaboration with Open Farms, we’re hosting the 2025 Open Farms Day at Mangaroa 🎪 Our last event in November 2024 was our biggest yet with over 1,000 people coming down – and this…

Mercer Mushrooms
Waikato, Tuakau 2696
  • Hosted farm tour
  • Farming games and fun
  • Science in farming
  • Machinery display
  • Food and drink on sale
  • Picnic area

Discover the charm of Mercer Mushrooms with a guided tour of our compost yard and mushroom farm. Gain insights into our compost methods and the fascinating process of mushroom cultivation. Enjoy engaging activities, including farm games, bingo, and some tasty…

Mushroom House
Wellington, 5026
  • Hosted farm tour
  • Farm shop

We want to help New Zealand lead the world to a brighter food future, one bite at a time. We believe in the value of local food ecosystems. That’s why we started Mushroom House in our hometown of Plimmerton, Porirua….

Ohau Gourmet Mushrooms
Manawatu-Wanganui, 5570
  • Meet the animals
  • Hosted farm tour
  • Nature walk
  • Self-guided walks
  • Science in farming
  • Picnic area
  • Vegetable and/or flower planting
  • Compost making

We are a permaculture farm using regenerative and sustainable farming practices, in Ohau (just south of Levin). We grow Shiitake and Oyster mushrooms that we sell at local farmer’s markets in the lower North Island. We also make a range…

Pari Nui
Otago, 9076
  • Meet the animals
  • Science in farming
  • Vegetable and/or flower planting
  • Pasture and/or soil exploration
  • Compost making
  • Worm farm or insect habitat activity

We have a small farm near Dunedin city, which runs alpacas, sheep, beef and goats. We are developing a large food garden area, and would like the opportunity to show case rural life to the urban people near us.

Pinta - Pāmu Farms of New Zealand
Waikato, 3083
  • Farming games and fun
  • Machinery display
  • Milking Demonstration

Curious where your milk comes from? Join the team at our Pāmu Pinta Dairy and learn about a working dairy farm. You will be able to check out our machinery and even see the cows getting milked!

Rewa Rewa Station
Wellington, 5894
  • Meet the animals
  • Hosted farm tour
  • Machinery display
  • Farm shop
  • Stockyard Demonstration

Patrizia and the late Rod have been on Rewa Rewa Station for 14 years, after immigrating from Italy and the UK. Rewa Rewa Station operates as both a traditional Sheep & Beef farm, and Patrizia produces stunning natural wool and…

Te Aratipi Station
Hawkes Bay, 4294
  • Meet the animals
  • Tractor-trailer rides
  • Self-guided walks
  • Machinery display
  • Picnic area
  • Tree planting
  • Vet, catchment, DOC, predator control or other talk

Welcome to Te Aratipi Station, a historic 4th-generation Hawke’s Bay farm owned by the Palmer Family since 1915. Spanning 3,000 acres, our farm is home to Angus Cattle and Romney Sheep, blending traditional farming with modern sustainable practices. Named after…

Te Hua Farm/Little Farm Goat Dairy
Canterbury, 7495
  • Meet the animals
  • Science in farming
  • Food and drink on sale
  • Farm shop
  • Milking Demonstration

We are the smallest commercial dairy in New Zealand. We milk mostly Toggenburg goats, an heritage Swiss breed, and the oldest registered dairy goat breed in the world. They make excellent milk for cheesemaking, which is what we do with…

Waikawa Blueberries
Manawatu-Wanganui, 5573
  • Meet the animals
  • Hosted farm tour
  • Nature walk
  • Science in farming
  • Food and drink on sale
  • Picnic area
  • Vet, catchment, DOC, predator control or other talk
  • Crop harvesting

Waikawa Blueberries is an organic berry farm and olive grove. We are open 9am – 4pm on Sunday for you to visit the blueberry patch to pick some blueberries or enjoy a real fruit ice-cream At this years Open Farm…