TE MATUKU GROVE

Te Matuku Grove is located at the Eastern End of Waiheke Island, on the coastal slopes overlooking Te Matuku Bay Marine Reserve. Our main focus has been to restore the land by planting trees and building soil, using syntropic permaculture to grow nutrient dense food. We've planted over 3,000 native trees as shelter belts, fruit trees and an olive grove of 230 trees comprising mainly Frantoio and Koroneiki varieties. The olives are hand picked and then cold pressed producing our premium olive oil... Waiheke Island is officially free from possums but we are committed to ongoing pest control using A24 traps and bait stations to trap rodents and stoats. We are working in tandem with the Hauraki Gulf Conservation Trust towards their goal of creating a ‘predator-free Waiheke'. We also have an ongoing weed management programme to further encourage an increase in our native bird population. Since 2013 we have worked hard to develop food forests on our land based on permaculture design..

Also known as: Te Matuku Grove Ltd.

Primary location: Waiheke Island