Our Farmers. Our Milk.
Origin Earth has one supply farm, Plantation Road Dairies in Central Hawkes Bay.
Plantation Road Dairies, now owned by Apatu Farms, use the same farming practices as former owners Kevin and Linda Davidson. These accentuate the importance of biological soil management in both animal health and welfare and in determining milk quality. Their farm soil management practices, together with dairy shed technology provides the levels of traceability and milk quality assurance that Origin Earth requires.
Along with all the usual food label information, our products also include an individual farm identifier and a milk batch number
Read more about what happens Inside Our Farm Gates
Single Farm Origin Milk
Origin Earth products are unique in that they are all crafted from single farm origin milk.
Single farm origin means that the milk for any one product, fresh bottled milk, yoghurt or cheese comes from a single farm and herd or flock. Milk from different farms is never mixed. This makes all our products completely traceable. This means we can verify where the raw product was sourced and are able to trace it back to the farm, the paddock and the animals from which it come.
Rural Delivery Stories
Over the years TVNZ’s Rural Delivery programme has produced a number of stories about us, our farmers and the biological approach to farming – which is what our farmers do. We have listed these stories below and linked them to the Rural Delivery site where you can either watch or read the story.
Plantation Road Dairies – March 2018
A Biological Approach to Improving Soils – May 2014
Gunson Sheep Milking – May 2014
Origin Earth Cheese & Yoghurt – August 2011
Armitage Biological Dairy – June 2010