Movie director James Cameron has further distanced himself from dairy farming, adding an organic-vegetable venture to his increasingly plant-based Wairarapa businesses.
It is understood Cameron, who spends time each year at his secluded Wairarapa home with his family while working on the sequels to his blockbuster film Avatar, has bought Te Manaia Organics, a successful vegetable-growing business based south of Masterton.
Te Manaia's former owner Jeremy Howden declined to comment but it is understood he finalised the deal late last month, and will continue to manage it for the Canadian-born Cameron.
