Plan B, Self Sufficiency
Plan B, Self Sufficiency
There's a certain allure to the idea of self-sufficiency. Growing your own fruit and vegetables and helping protect our health and the planet.
The reality? It can feel quite different.
If you're anything like us, the guilt quickly sets in when you are left holding the plastic pots and ripped, unrecyclable plastic bags from the compost, fertiliser, trees and vege seedlings. The slugs quickly arrive to destroy your new seedlings, weeds start poking through your new garden bed and the frustration creeps in.
Before you know it, the chemical-free, environmentally friendly produce you dreamed of feeding your loved ones is gone. In the end, you are back buying your fruit and veges from the supermarket.
About Us
We are on a mission to make gardening a truly environmentally friendly activity by showing you alternatives to buying seedlings, trees and compost suffocated in plastic containers and bags.
Every year in New Zealand:
252,000,000kg of plastic waste is disposed of
3,400,000kg of pesticides are used
5,117,000kg of apples aren't eaten
We are committed to helping you grow your own reliable supply of nutrient dense, chemical free food.
Right in your own backyard, no matter how small your section.
What we do at Plan B, Self-Sufficiency
Multi-Grafted Fruit Trees
We carefully select and graft varieties that not only pollinate each other but set fruit at different times. This extends your harvest and eliminates rotting excess fruit.
Compost and Fertiliser
We mix manure from our alpaca, chickens and horses with brown matter collected from our lifestyle block to make our own nutrient rich compost, teeming with microbes.
Livestock
We lovingly raise alpaca, nubian goats, horses and chickens. From them we get milk, eggs, meat and compost. We occasionally have young animals for sale.