Little Farm Goat Dairy

13/05/2026

After many months of planning and testing, we are finally getting close to trialing courier deliveries for Little Farm Goat Dairy cheeses.

Our first small winter trial is expected to begin within the next 2–3 weeks, initially focused on South Island overnight deliveries while we make sure everything is travelling well and arriving in excellent condition. Unfortunately, we will be UNABLE to courier to rural addresses.

Each courier box will contain a curated selection of our cheeses, including chèvre, Etta or marinated chèvre, and a mould-ripened cheese.

Following Country Calendar, we received far more interest than we ever expected, alongside a difficult production season, so thank you very much for your patience while we worked through how to do this properly and sustainably.

If you are interested in future courier boxes — especially from the North Island — feel free to send us a message.

We’re very excited to finally be getting close.

27/04/2026

But what else is new? Watch this space! Or come down to Amberley Farmers Market and Lyttelton Farmers Market next Saturday and find out.

25/04/2026

Come to Amberley Farmers Market for your cheese fix today—1:00-4:30.

22/04/2026

In accordance with the trading restrictions for ANZAC Day, Lyttelton Farmers Market will be closed. Mike and Andrea can be found at Amberley Farmers Market on Saturday, from 1-4:30pm. The Market will be laying a Memorial wreath at the Charles Upham statue on the grounds, and will have free ANZAC biscuits for marlet patrons.

03/04/2026

We won’t be at the Amberley Farmers Market tomorrow, as Andrea is unwell. Mike will be at Lyttelton Farmers Market as usual.

If you’re nearby (Oxford) and would like to collect an order from the farm for Easter weekend, please get in touch ASAP and we can set it aside for collection tomorrow (Saturday).

29/03/2026

Small producers feed their communities in a way that is both intimate and resilient: food is grown nearby, in season, by people who know their land and their customers. This shortens supply chains, reduces food miles, and keeps money circulating locally, strengthening both the land and the livelihoods tied to it. In contrast to corporate monoculture—where vast single-crop systems rely heavily on inputs, transport, and distant decision-making—small-scale, diverse production builds soil health, supports biodiversity, and adapts more readily to change. It is not just a different way of producing food, but a different kind of relationship: one rooted in stewardship, accountability, and the quiet, ongoing work of feeding a place well.

SUPPORT YOUR LOCAL FOOD PRODUCERS. Canterbury is very rich with them!

15/03/2026

Last Cheese Making class for the season! 29 March, 11-2, Sheffield. The class is presently half full, so please get in touch ASAP to reserve your space. Please email - [email protected]

15/03/2026

Well, I did another thing! For Farmers' Markets New Zealand Farmers Market Week 2026, our Market Coordinator organised a poetry competition as part of the celebrations. Of course the theme was farmers markets, and of course I wrote about the Amberley Farmers Market. I used to write poetry in a past life, and having enforced down time these days gives me more time to think in that vein again (I sometimes wander about the farm making little Haikus to myself).

13/03/2026

Amberley Farmers Market is pulling out all the stops as it continues to celebrate Farmers' Markets New Zealand FMNZ Farmers Market Week 2026!

10/03/2026

Join us at Little Farm Goat Dairy on the 22nd of March, as part of the Grow & Tell Trail

THIS SATURDAY! Our first Grow & Tell trail starts this Saturday in Rangiora / Waikuku. Join us! Tickets in Bio.

SATURDAY 14 MARCH — RANGIORA / WAIKUKU

Suburban abundance and community food growing.

Step into the diversity of local food growing through a curated trail of home gardens, a community food forest, and a small specialist nursery across Rangiora and Waikuku. This day explores how everyday spaces can become productive food landscapes.

Trail Options

Trail A — Abundance in Action
Includes:
• Tracey's Orchard Garden — Waikuku
• MeadowSweet Herbs & Flowers
• Rangiora Food Forest

Trail B — Community & Possibility
Includes:
• Jane's Suburban Home Garden — Rangiora
• Richard's Productive Garden Ramble — Rangiora
• Rangiora Food Forest

Garden Hosts

Tracey's Orchard Garden — Waikuku
A once-open paddock transformed into a productive orchard garden, showing how steady effort and experimentation can turn open space into abundant food-growing.

MeadowSweet Herbs & Flowers — Waikuku
A one-acre herb-rich homestead and small specialist nursery centred on biodiversity, healthy soil, and resilient planting systems.

Rangiora Food Forest — Rangiora
A developing public food forest transforming an open reserve into a shared community food landscape.

Jane's Suburban Home Garden — Rangiora
An abundant 870m² township garden showing how experimentation and curiosity can turn an ordinary backyard into a productive food-growing space.

Richard's Productive Garden Ramble — Rangiora
A highly practical garden built on heavy clay soil using raised beds, composting, worm farming and hugelkultur. Every available space is used for growing fruit and vegetables through ongoing trial, error, and learning.