<img width=”300″ height=”200″ class=”alignleft size-medium wp-image-920″ style=”background-color: transparent; color: #444444; display: block; float: left; font-family: Georgia,&quot; bitstream charter&quot;,serif; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; height: 200px; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 24px; max-width: 640px; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; margin: 4px 24px 12px 0px;” alt=”” src=”http://www.feijoa.org.nz/wp/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/190616-Farm-diversification-MB-300×200.jpg”>Starting out with sheep 30 years ago, the Honeyfield family at Welcome Bay, Tauranga, have diversified their 100ha farm into four different revenue streams – and they’re about to plant another produce on-farm this spring.
They started with basically all sheep on the farm but soon began harvesting feijoas.
“The feijoas were already here but we just worked out better ways to manage it…we do as much as we can for the local supermarkets and whatever is not up to standard we have a juice contract for Simply Squeezed,” says Colin. “It took about five years to establish a good income from them.”
“The feijoas were already here but we just worked out better ways to manage it…we do as much as we can for the local supermarkets and whatever is not up to standard we have a juice contract for Simply Squeezed,” says Colin. “It took about five years to establish a good income from them.”
Today, it’s called building resilience in your operations.”
For the full article on sunmedia, <a href=”https://www.sunlive.co.nz/news/211976-diversifying-income-name-of-game.html”>click here</a>