Newsletter

We send out a weekly newsletter when we have new stock available to order on the website. We usually include some items of news about our farm. Some of these past newsletters are included here (sorry it isn’t always up to date!)

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7 Sept. 2025 – Rockhaven Farm Beef

Regenerative farming beef animals Our chilled beef this week comes from Rockhaven farm, further along the reef from Ellis Creek. Wayne and Nicky Packard began their regenerative farming journey  sixteen years ago, changing from synthetic fertilizers to mineral and biological inputs such as seaweed and fish biologicals to improve the life and structure of the soil. They are continually …Read More

18 August 2025 – Calves, Chooks, and Ducks

The milking cows have all dropped nice looking Lowline Angus cross calves. We will also raise a handful of bobby calves from a local dairy farm on these cows. They have enough milk to feed several calves, and by carefully introducing the foster calves the mothers are happy to let them suckle in a calm …Read More

21 June 2025 – New flock of pullets

The new pullets have decided not to wait for the days to get longer before laying – every day I collect a record number of eggs. Nearly 11 dozen today. The Totara flock (below) are getting ready to retire. After a year they start laying every second day and the time and expenses make keeping …Read More

27 February 2024 – We have meat again!

Cattle beast in pen Yes! At last we have meat for sale again! We are very proud to have one of the very few regulated on farm (mobile) abattoirs in NZ. This means we can sell you the meat from animals that are killed in their own environment, in a manner that is as stress free as we can …Read More

7 February 2024 – Almost there! …

Welcome to Ellis Creek Farm 2024! We would like to give you the heads up that our on farm mobile abattoir is ready to rumble and we plan to have meat for you to buy before the end of the month.We are very glad that we will have the ability to kill all our animals …Read More

12 November 2022 – Down on the Farm

Dear All, Thank you again for all your support and encouragement. We couldn’t do what we do with out you! I have put more meat on the website but from this week on supplies will be dwindling. We will still have avocados and eggs for sale however. We are working hard to restore supply as …Read More

6 November 2022 – Down on the Farm – A Farewell

Greetings to you all from the Farm, We hope you are well and enjoying the lovely sunshine. I have just loaded lots more beef onto the website for you to order. A reminder that we are likely to run out of most of your favourite cuts before Christmas so do stock up. We still have …Read More

28 October 2022 – New arrivals down on the farm

Greetings to you all from the Farm, We have some bad news and some good news!Our chiller is full of beef and we will be processing it over the next couple of weeks. Unfortunately we have just heard that our helpful abattoir is unable to make any more private kills this year. It is looking …Read More

15 October 2022 – This Week on the Farm

Greetings to you all  from the farm,This week in the web shop we have our first avocados and  lots of eggs. We still have beef (although less range than normal). We have 60 Avos to sell, so that would be 12 @ 5 in a bag for $10. These early spray free avocados are from …Read More

26 June 2021

Hello all, As I write this it is the 5th Saturday in a row that it has rained. A bit miserable for the Saturday market. After the last two dry years we forget what a normal wet Golden Bay winter is like! We still have plenty of beef and pork for you to order. Due …Read More