Jenny Lux
Jenny is passionate about improving soil health, organic production methods, and rapidly reducing carbon emissions in the near future. She has a Masters in Environmental Science and runs an organic market garden in Rotorua with her husband Richard.
Kaitlyn Lamb
Kaitlyn is passionate about localised food systems, composting and urban farming. She was a leader of Forest & Bird Youth Rotorua and is studying Geography and French at the University of Canterbury.
Charles Hyland
Charles is a soil scientist and biogeochemist who moved to NZ in 2013 after working at Cornell University in the USA as a scientist for over ten years. Organic agriculture has always been central to his work and worldview.
Rebecka Keeling
Rebecka shares her time between Slow Blooms flower farm in Matakana and a PR consultancy in Auckland. Rebecka is the co-founder of Permaculture Mahurangi, a freelance writer, and an advocate for produce grown locally, in its natural season, with care for the earth.
David McNeill
David is a countryman, formerly at Kingseat in Franklin District. Developing a lifestyle block with avocados, an orchard, amenity & regeneration plantings, vegetable gardens, stock laneways, waterways, terraforming, children, building construction, machinery maintenance, bees and all the many tasks of turning pasture into a productive estate and home. Currently he is exploring NZ, looking for another suitable property.
He is passionate about healthy soil, fresh clean waterways, organic farming, mighty native forests, and the supply chain in providing fresh organic local produce to local communities. Networking with many communities in NZ to see how they organise their local organic sharing.
He has a service business in information technology to provide the funds for maintaining rural land. He also has strong skills and a degree in accounting and financial, from providing & supporting business software.
His intention for S&H is to facilitate local group connections, face to face meetings, seed & knowledge sharing to create strength and resilience through locally grown abundance. Also to help capture knowledge into appealing online content to share through the member network.
For S&H to lobby policy makers & resource controllers on behalf of all members and natural growers on issues that affect the quality of what we grow including air, water, pests & diseases, GM, agri-chemicals, mining, biosecurity, land use regulation, large scale solar, road run off, military training, flood protection, dams and all the many activities that can degrade soil quality and biomass.
All from a sustainable funding base, strong brand and prudent financial management.