GROW 2026 – Building Resilient Horticulture

🌱 GROW 2026 – Building Resilience Grower Field Walk

Tairāwhiti / Gisborne

GROW 2026 brings together growers from across the Gisborne region for a practical, in-field session focused on strengthening orchard systems from the ground up.

This is not a seminar — it’s a working field day designed around small-group conversation and observation. Participants will rotate through three focused stations, spending time exploring real soil and crop conditions, asking questions, and discussing what resilience looks like in practice.

Rather than being presented with theory, growers are encouraged to engage openly, challenge ideas, and consider how different approaches could — or couldn’t — apply within their own systems.

Field Walk Focus Areas

🌾Cover Crops
Exploring species choice, timing, management, and the role cover crops play in improving soil condition and orchard resilience.

🌱Soil Health
Understanding how physical structure, nutrients, and biology interact — and learning simple ways to assess soil function in the field.

💧 Moisture Management – Droughts & Floods
Examining how soil condition influences water holding and drainage, how to read early stress signals, and how to build resilience to increasingly variable seasons.

☕Coffee and food will be provided, with time built in for informal discussion between rotations.