Our
PLANNING APPROACH
WHOLE FARM, WHOLE WHENUA, LOCAL IS LOGICAL
Our wide-lens planning approach gathers individual farm plans together around a catchment area and attunes, aligns, and co-ordinates the individual plans with a larger integrated sub/catchment plan. We are not just looking farms singularly but looking at farms from a whole of whenua perspective.
This farm level/catchment level approach supports long-term community-determined improvements to:
land use practice - freshwater - biodiversity - natural habitats - community-based on interconnectedness
The collective community approach provides a library of diverse local ideas, responses and approaches that, together, create a powerful force for change at a community level.
OUR PRINCIPLES
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Go beyond compliance thinking and responding;
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Recognise the unique circumstances and environmental contexts of each community (and each participant group therein);
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Partnerships with mana whenua are based on supporting and upholding their long-term vision for land and water;
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Avoid playing safe and supporting the status quo;
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Create living documents that that encourage learning and support the steady growth of enthusiasm, courage, leadership, and ambition.
WHOLE OF FARM
Our farm-level planning approach supports farming decisions that are attuned and aligned with the whole farm and where each plan is developed by the landowner according to what they feel is right, sensible, and good.
We are far better than low-bar minimum standard actions.
WHOLE OF WHENUA
Our wider catchment planning approach gathers individual farm plans together and attunes, aligns, and co-ordinates the individual actions with a larger integrated sub/catchment plan; see each farm as part of the whole whenua.
Together we are greater than the sum of our parts.
LOCAL IS LOGICAL
Te Arataki creates local farm planning networks to share knowledge and experience between farmers and growers. Alongside the farm planning network, Te Arataki facilitates and co-ordinates a wider and larger farm/community environmental planning interface. Together we gather the collective history and local knowledge of the land from farmers and growers, communities and tangata whenua.
Whakapūpūtia mai ō mānuka, kia kore ai e whati
Small branches gathered together do not break.
