Callum and Amanda McLean are one year into developing the 12-acre McLean Farm which feeds their young family, and provides a living from selling salads at a local market. A stint working on a homestead and the work of Taranaki-based bio-intensive gardening educator and restoration grazing consultant Jodi Roebuck inspired Callum McLean to look at the possibilities offered by small-scale farming he told Summer Times.
"That's mostly just by focusing on high profitable crops and stuff that people really like to eat that you can produce week on week," he says. They grow, depending on the season, a salad mix with up to seven different varieties of leaves.
"We're still in our first year, so we're still developing, but our key focus is the salad greens because that really brings the customers back every week."
The couple lease 12 acres of land, which was purchased by the family farming business, McLean says. "We've got 4 acres of native bush and about 6 acres of sweeping dips that I graze with cattle. And then I've got about an acre and a half of flat land that we use for our gardens."
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