Top image credit: Wild Meadows Farm
Customers in Auckland and Northland can now buy regenerative meat via two websites.
Out the farm gate was set up by farmers to “help farmers sell directly to consumer, ensuring transparency, fair pricing, and meat you can feel good about eating”. There are currently five farms listed on the website with more in the pipeline.
Earth First Food “flips the script on meat production”. They “empower regenerative farmers to keep profits on the farm, delivering you ethically raised, higher-quality meat – while restoring the land for future generations”.
Earth First was founded by an entrepreneur with a strong sense of mission to support regenerative farmers. He invested a lot of his own resources and time in setting up a mobile abattoir to enable stock to be killed on-farm. The process differs from home kill in that the truck has a meat inspector on board, and enables farmers to sell meat directly to customers. Three farms are listed.
The website includes Earth First’s manifesto with these six points:
- The current foods system has failed
- We’ve exceeded our planetary boundaries
- Extractive mindsets leaves Earth last
- Community supported agriculture
- We need to be farming with the capacity of nature
- Enshrining the rights of nature
Why we support regenerative farming
At Climate Action Tai Tokerau we support regenerative farming because it offers a pathway to heal the land while helping heal the climate. Conventional agriculture, with heavy use of synthetic fertilisers, monocultures, and chemical inputs, depletes soil carbon, degrades soil structure, erodes fertility, and undermines water-holding capacity. Regenerative farming, by contrast, seeks to rebuild soil health from the ground up by growing diverse pastures, and reducing external inputs. This strengthens soil biology, boosts fertility, reduces erosion, and improves water retention making farms more resilient against droughts, floods, and extreme weather.
Perhaps most importantly from a climate perspective, regenerative agriculture turns farmland into a carbon sink. Healthy soils rich in organic matter can store substantial amounts of carbon, helping draw CO₂ out of the atmosphere and store it underground. At the same time, regenerative livestock and pasture management can, when done right, reduce reliance on fossil-fuel-derived fertilisers and decrease greenhouse gases associated with industrialised animal production. By returning carbon to soils, improving biodiversity, and reducing chemical pollution, regenerative systems help restore ecosystem health and contribute to climate mitigation.
Our pasture-based farms in Aotearoa also cool the locale directly via transpiration.
And while it has not been widely researched, regenerative meat and dairy are nutritionally superior.
If you believe, as we do, that farming should work with nature, not against it, then supporting regenerative farming is not just an environmental ideal, it’s a practical necessity. Buying meat and food from regenerative farms gives consumers more than just a product: it sends a powerful signal that we value long-term ecological health, soil fertility, community resilience, and climate stability. So we call on our supporters in Te Tai Tokerau, Tamaki and beyond — to choose regenerative-farmed produce whenever possible. Demand from everyday people can help shift the food system toward methods that respect the land, protect ecosystems, and reduce greenhouse emissions.
If you would like to try regenerative meat it is also available at Tikipunga Fresh Foods.
Image credit: Tikipunga Fresh Foods
And Waima Hill Organic Beef. Ursula is at the Whangārei Growers Market every Saturday.
Together, we can help make regenerative farming not the exception, but the norm for the sake of our soils, our climate, and future generations.
Climate Action Tai Tokerau 