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We hope this Southern Hemisphere winter message finds you all well.

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Beyond Sustainability: The Power of Renewal

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Cambridge Dictionary defines success as:

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Weird day looming with an equally weird week/month/year/decade sitting palpably on the horizon.

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2025 is nearly over. Quite a wild ride, and a lot of incredible challenges for many if not most humans and life in general on this planet.

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Rather than bore you all with a meandering blog post, let us share a few of the photos of the trip so far.

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We’re excited to be able to share our newest glamping product – a vintage Airstream™ caravan.

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Dianna and I have arrived in Niue to investigate the season of the humpback whales up close and first hand. Not to mention of course the opportunity to escape for a week into some warmer climes as the winter winds to an ...

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Blog post by Dianna Birchfield West

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JUNE 25, 2024 / DIANNA

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Just a bunch of pictures of beautiful flowers from the farm.

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We are moving into our fifth year of focusing on and nurturing the farm and eco-retreat.

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Love Letter to Yourself Competition February 2024

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Our Wonderful Week with Coco

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By Damon Birchfield West - all images © Deemon Creative Ltd

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Blog by Damon Birchfield West

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Entry One - Kindness

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Here's a little Ppt we have shared with some international colleagues, just letting them know a little bit about the project.

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Just ten days away from the farm was enough for us to realise that we cannot spend ten days away from the farm.

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Our Absolutely Amazing African Safari tent is finally up and awaiting our kid free fortnight so that we can finish, faff and fluff about to make it perfect for our guests.

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While I am stressed struggling with a now shoestring budget to complete an ambitious outreach project to further our regenerative narrative, friends in Ukraine are burying civilians and posting pictures of corpses with t...

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Morena e hoa ma! Was scrolling the phone and thought I’d put a little visual blog post of some autumnal flora on the farm.

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Only have an hour to get this blog from my brian, to the laptop, edited, posted and shared. Damon is working this morning, facilitating some meetings. Soon he will arrive with a rented trailer (ours is broken) to haul ...

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November 2022 is coming up fast and will mark three years since dropping the metaphorical mic on the chaos of being a human hurricane for the very last time. Turned my back on almost everything I knew at the time (my ma...

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... not to mention the pandemic...

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2021 saw us put concerted efforts into clearing out, simplifying, while progressing the development of our experimental farm in Matakana.

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Very excited about the bananas being tucked snug in their beds late this spring. according to our banana guru Hugh, we ought to be expecting an influx of fruit 🍌 in about 18 months. Perhaps sooner.

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Pines spent a lot of years growing and capturing carbon… thanks 🙏 guys! Sadly you gotta go to make way for native fauna and regenerative and experimental farming. Paths are down around glamp site and up at the top of ...

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I remember posting the “Build a larger table, not a higher fence” themed memes/stickers a lot when I was a fresh faced/wide eyed early adopter in the social media space. That was well over a decade ago, and nothing on ea...

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I want to know what other people are doing regarding pest control and how other people process the difficult and confronting task of willingly ending a life. Are there vegans who engage in pest control practices? What ...

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There’s a lot of stress and uncertainty floating about the planet at this point, yet I remain safe and sound ensconced in a seriously simple life. I chose it and continue to choose it with each day the sun decides to do...

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Still locked down. Still healthy. Still feeling very grateful to be in Aotearoa, even though we are in Tamaki Makaurau Auckland with strict level four isolation protocols in place. Still have heaps of time to go throu...

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It’s Thursday, I think. Pretty sure. Though in week three of a lock down that seems less important perhaps than ever.

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blog by Dee

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Today we took another step forward in planning our site and regenerative farm in Matakana. With the arrival of our architect, Nicholas Stevens, landscape architect, Philip Smith, and permaculture advisor, Richard Lee, we...

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