A new farming paradigm - Terraquaculture

Professor Haikai Tane and Kama Burwell will present Terraquaculture Training - a 4 day workshop from 6-10 April 2011.

They aim to train a new generation of farmers who will transform Aotearoa NZ's pastoral landscapes into highly productive, regenerative, healthy landscapes.

Terraquaculture is the traditional farming system of the Pacific-Asia region - farming the living water that flows through the landscape.

These farming systems are very beautiful and are more productive than modern agriculture. Terraquaculture farmers can produce 30-50 tonnes food per hectare each year, without irrigation, fertiliser, or fossil fuel input.

After travelling to China with Haikai last year to study terraquaculture farming, Kama is restoring watershed processes at her small farm in Taranaki, creating terraces, and has just planted her first experimental wetland rice crop.

The workshop will be held at Kama's farm in Taranaki.

For more information contact Sheryl on email sherylam@slingshot.co.nz or phone 03 435-0366.