http://www.holisticfarmsolutions.co.nz/blog/ The latest Blog feeds from www.holisticfarmsolutions.co.nz en-us Tue, 28 Apr 2026 11:22:55 +1200 Rocketspark http://www.holisticfarmsolutions.co.nz/blog/post/56850/avocado-excitement/ Avocados grown in the Bay of Plenty utilising products and consultancy from Holistic Farm Solutions and H F Toolbox.  This is a large crop of good sized healthy avocados.This crop turned out to be in the top two for quantity, size and quality per hectare, with the packhouse used. ... Fri, 28 Aug 2020 09:02:41 +1200 http://www.holisticfarmsolutions.co.nz/blog/#post56850 http://www.holisticfarmsolutions.co.nz/blog/post/55535/zeolite-versus-biochar-to-lower-availability-of-excesses/ Many farms in the Waikato suffer an excess in manganese, this tends to look as though the pasture has been burnt and many farmers put it down to frost burn, however, it is generally in patches and often these do not align with where one would expect frost to be heaviest and can often be where breeze would generally be expected to inhibit frost.  It shows most clearly in late winter and spring.We are currently doing trial work with zeolite on a farm with very high manganese that for the past... Mon, 27 Jul 2020 15:54:01 +1200 http://www.holisticfarmsolutions.co.nz/blog/#post55535