Green Dream Pushes Farmers Into Red | Newsroom
A multi-award-winning Southland couple share their harrowing experience of regenerative land practices as a warning of what can go wrong down on a green farm.
Prefer Newsroom on Google Linzi and Jeff Keen were fencing off waterways and planting natives well before it was fashionable. In what is a fairly traditional farming landscape near Lumsden in Northern Southland, the innovative couple continue to be the greenies of the hood. Rolling hills lead the way to their 870ha Tomogalak Gorge farm, which backs onto the tussock country of the Mataura Range. The property has been in Jeff’s family for 43 years. He took it over in the early 2000s with Linzi later joining him. Both educated at Lincoln University(then College), they consider “good biology” a ke
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