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Groundwork Groups
Grow your farm together
Small groups of 8 to 12 farm businesses in your region, making real changes on their own farms with independent advice from Groundshift. In person every quarter, online every month, for one to three years.
Here's the deal
Advice that fits your farm, and people to try it with
A Groundwork Group is a small group of farmers from your area who meet regularly to work on their farm systems together. The Groundshift team runs it and brings the technical knowledge.
It's not a talkfest, and it's not someone reading a slideshow at you. You get two things that are hard to find on your own. Advice built around your soils, your system and your goals, from people with nothing to sell you. And farmers close by who are trialling the same things, so you're not carrying all the risk yourself or guessing from case studies on the other side of the world.
What's included:
A Whole Farm Assessment
Full annual farm assessment for your soils, agronomy, finances and goals looked at together, ending in prioritised recommendations for your place.
In-person meets
Four in-person days a year with your Groundwork Group
Monthly Calls
A monthly online call in between, to check in, troubleshoot and keep things moving.
Full education programme
An education programme covering the fundamentals of biology-led farm systems, shaped around what your group is working on.
Advisory platform
Access to our advisory platform and knowledge base. Checked, NZ-relevant information matched to your system.
Shared Trials
So the group learns from more paddocks than just your own.
You don't need to have it all figured out, and you don't need to call yourself regenerative. Groundwork Groups suit farmers who are curious about how better biological function can lift the health, profit and resilience of their farm, and want to work it out properly.
How it works
What goes into a group?
Think of it like a good sandwich. Four layers, each doing a job.
The Groundshift Team
We hold it together. Facilitation, coaching, the advisory and community platforms, and the organising nobody else wants to do.
Education
The fundamentals of healthy, profitable, biology-led farm systems, plus whatever your group is wrestling with at the time.
Knowledge
Checked, credible information for NZ farms, matched to your system, soils and goals. Less time sorting good information from bad.
Your Group
The best bit. Farmers asking each other hard questions, sharing what worked and what didn't, and running trials together. (We're not eating you. Promise.)
Season by season
Your first year
One thing we won't promise is overnight results. Changing a farm system takes seasons, and sometimes you need to invest in soil function first to build a system that pays you back. The group is there so you're not doing that on your own.
#1
Register your interest
No commitment. We'll let you know when a group is forming near you.
#2
Have a chat with us
We talk through your farm and what you're after, and make sure the group is a good fit both ways.
#3
Whole farm assessment
We look at your soils, agronomy, finances and goals together, so your work in the group starts from what's actually happening on your place.
#4
Quarterly days with your group
In person, working through the fundamentals and the things your group wants to dig into.
#5
Monthly online calls
Check in, troubleshoot, compare trial results.
#6
End of the year
Decide whether to roll on for another 12 months.
