Nadia's Whole Garden

03/07/2025

One of our lovely community members is ready to complete your property appraisal! Book to have a chance at winning some local goodies - all details below 👇🏼

Your Whangārei and Tutukākā Coast Real Estate specialist - passion for place, people, and property

25/06/2025

My name is Nadia, I am 26 years old and I have been running my market garden in Northland, New Zealand for 5 years. I am applying for the market gardener masterclass scholarship to take the farm into the next five years with confidence and clarity

When I was 19 years old I was hospitalised with a digestive system that would not work. Overnight I went from a scholarship athlete at the University of Southern California, playing waterpolo and studying chemical engineering, to a skeleton of myself. I lost 17 kilograms and couldn’t eat for 3 weeks. Constantly vomiting, with the episodes lasting up to 10 hours. It was a long recovery where I was bed ridden for a year and sick for 2 years

There was a lot of my life at that time that I couldn’t control. I knew before my illness took me over physically it would get me mentally. I went from a nonstop life of training and studying to doing nothing. So I started growing seeds for vegetables I wanted to grow. It sparked from all the YouTube I was watching and for a deeper need to understand the food that was wreaking havoc on my stomach.

Throughout my journey and recovery one question stuck front and centre: why does it taste so different when you grow it yourself? What were they doing to make supermarket veg taste so bad?

Once I was 90% recovered I made the decision to leave engineering behind and become a market gardener. I had two missions: to provide people with nutrient dense & high quality vegetables and improve people’s connection to the food they eat. So that was it I set out to turn a paddock of grass into a functional market garden … second part in the comments! Market Gardener Institute

09/04/2025

What an incredible summer we have had (in general and on the farm)! Thank you for all of the support over this season and I cannot wait to see you all soon 💚 I will be closed for the next couple of weeks to let the winter veg grow - back open and ready to provide your delicious food on Tuesday the 29th of April

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Thank you to my Mum and Dad for all of the help over the past few weeks getting the last summer veg out and getting the farm in tip top shape was possible because of you so thank you!

18/03/2025

Picking highlights today
1. The first butternuts, I am always amazed with how much pumpkin you get in a butternut
2. Sunflower micro greens having a bath
3. Boxes packed and ready to roll
4. Much needed rain for our winter veg
5. Apples off old trees but they are so tasty

I am so over the moon with the harvests at the moment, to be entering late March and have a variety of goodies to offer is a dream come true

This weeks standard box $35 is:
1/2 Large butternut 
Sunflower microgreens (so sweet)
Zucchini Bundle
Capsicums x 2 
Cherry tomatoes 250g bag 
Apples 750g 
Jalapenos or Chillis (these are a bonus so can be left out on request)
Bunch of Spinach 
Spring onion bunch 
Red Silverbeet bunch

02/02/2025

The number one reason why I can do what I do is because of the veggie boxes I pack. They are available all year round, showcasing the amazing variety of veg at the farm
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They can be ordered casually each week or you can join a subscription. On a subscription you automatically receive your box every week or fortnight. Ordering casually means you order on the weeks it works for you
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To start your veggie box experience send me a message. I cannot wait to get fresh, organic and nutritious veg to you 🥒

24/01/2025

I am so excited to announce that our sourdough workshops are branching out to Auckland! To book in simply send me a message or comment bread below for the info to arrive in your inbox - we can't wait

SOURDOUGH WORKSHOP INFO

Sourdough is often thought of as a long complicated process but we have simplified sourdough baking to fit our schedules. You will walk away with all of our tips and tricks to make sourdough as easy (and tasty) as can be. This is a hands-on class so you leave with your own sourdough bread to bake and enjoy!

What you will learn: to make a classic sourdough loaf, sourdough pizza, sourdough bagels & to care for your sourdough starter
What you will eat: a delicious sourdough morning tea
What you will leave with: your own sourdough loaf to bake & your own sourdough starter & a new hobby/obsession
When: Sunday 16th February 10am-2pm
Where: Milford, Auckland
Cost: $115 per person

14/01/2025

After a little holiday over summer I am well and truly back into the swing of the farm life. With an abundance of summer veg I have a few extra boxes available this Thursday !

25/12/2024

After a mammoth two weeks of picking, your farmer is having a little break. Thank you to everyone who has supported the farm this year! The community around these gardens is what keeps the veggies growing ~ see you on the 6th of January with a ton of veg 🥒🥒🥒

29/11/2024

Hard launching my summer hat 👒 your friendly reminder to stay sun safe out in the garden this year☀️

07/06/2024

Feeling soo good to be back in the swing of the garden again. Also I don’t think the first week of winter has ever looked so tasty on the farm
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In last weeks boxes: cherry tomatoes, Chinese cabbage, coriander (or parsley), salad mix, spinach, broccolini, mandarins, couple limes & kale sea red mustard
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All picked the morning of your pick up day and all grown at Nadia’s whole garden. Even in winter we can eat a huge variety of veg to keep us full and nourished
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Feel like you are missing out - you can message me your email address to join the weekly Sunday email for ordering veg boxes and much more