Freelove Farms

06/02/2026

You'll find us popping up at Waihi Beach Saturday Farmers Market tomorrow, Saturday 7th February 2026, with fresh flowers, seedlings and produce from our NEW permaculture garden on Woodland Road, Katikati. We'd LOVE to see some old familiar faces, so be sure to stop in and say Hi 🌼🌱

Waitangi weekend is here! Our vendors list is below with over 50 vendors attending tomorrow.
Come down and enjoy the long weekend sunshine, grab a coffee, some kai and sit in the sun listening to Sean Lurman play his tunes. We also have so many incredible vendors with artisan food, fresh produce, garden art, plants and seedlings plus some gorgeous selective crafts. Open from 8:30 to 12:30.
Don’t forget your reusable bags, containers and bottles.

Vendor list:(subject to last min changes)
3 Monkeys Kettle Corn
Authentic Candle Co
Bangkok Kitchen
Bay Buckwheat
Black Shed Pottery
Boho Mama
Bubala Creations
Cherry girls
Chilleez NZ
Crescent Design
Crystal Road
Dr Bucha’s Living Drinks
David Prints
El Café
Eskea farms ltd
Food Point - Dosas
Franempanadas
Freelove Farms
Glitzy Gals
Golden Cross Honey
Happy Horizons
Just Bread
Katikati Meat Masters Ltd
Kiwi Artisan
Krystals Candles
Liberty Growers
Merkaba NZ
Nannas Little Pretties
Oceanside Swirls
One Tribe Garden
Ongare Point Organics
Cargos Corner
Porteo & Rossi
Pots4peace
Potty Pete
Rons Vege Punnets
ruralwood ltd
Salvatores wood fire pizza
Slow habits
Smoked & Seasoned Salt
Solti momo
Sugar Magic Candy Floss
Tacos Yucatán
Tee’s Pots
Terra and Sprout
The Avo Girl
The Cambodia Charitable Trust
The Food Joint Limited
The Veggie Hub
The Weldery
Thymeless Apothecary
Valhalla BBQs
Vegetills
Veggie Hub
Vital Harvest
Wilderkin Spirits Co

See you tomorrow!

21/08/2025

Hey everyone! With spring right around the corner, it's a great time to be considering your garden for the year. My partner Amber and I are very creative landscapers/gardeners. We're looking to work for people that want to either start a garden or want more from their garden space. We specialize in productive gardens that are inviting and joyful to visit. The most important input to a garden is the gardeners foot prints! Therefore asthetics are just as important to us as productivity.
With high prices at the supermarket and the new GMO and glyphosphate bills looming, it is more important than ever to be growing your own spray free or organic vegetables and flowers!
Our rates are affordable and we love to transform spaces!
Give us a call at 022 516 4821 or send us a message if you would like a beautiful product outdoor space!
We're happy to consider jobs from Thames to Tauranga!

13/08/2025

Over the last few years we have been on quite a journey! From Athenree, to Golden Valley, to Wellsford and back again. All the while living in small cabins and tents, and just trying to make a go of good honest work growing vegetables and flowers. It's been a tough, but fulfilling ride!
One of the biggest lessons we learned from our time is the need for transportable accommodation.
Our first cabin we had to sell because we couldn't afford to transport it and we didn't have adequate access to our new home.
We built again but when things went sour at our new home and we had to leave, we could only salvage what materials we could over the course of 2 days.
Those days were transformative in how I intend to build the next time I got an opportunity.
A good friend of mine told me about a friend of his who built his home to be bolted together and a seed was planted!
I came up with a design for a cabin that was easy to disassemble in pieces light enough to move by two people. Unfortunately at our next project we were never able to make enough money to build again.
Luckily our friends took care of us and let us use their tent for the summer and one of their 8m square cabin when winter hit. However during the winter we had a visit from council and despite being under 10m square we were told we had to get rid of our cabin.
This experience has shown us once again of the importance of being mobile. The need for an affordable transportable tiny home is more apparent than ever! With councils cracking down on people just trying to live comfortably and affordable. With the cost of living on the rise and an ever expanding housing crisis we need solutions.
I've started a Give a Little page with the hope of raising the funds needed to build a prototype for an easily transportable home.
If I can raise my goal of $15,000 I will make my plans open source and share a how-to video so anyone can build their own.
If anyone donates $500 or more, they will receive the plans even if I don't reach my target.

https://givealittle.co.nz/cause/cabin-prototype-for-hexagonal-and-collapsible

08/06/2025

Hi everyone. We have just joined forces with the Waihi Academy in order to establish Grow On Waihi! Grow On is a community run organization that promotes local food resilience.
As many of you may know, this is a very important subject to both Amber and I.
We are very excited to see what opportunities are going to come our way!
Please follow our Grow On Waihi page!

08/06/2025

Hi everyone. We have just joined forces with the Waihi Academy in order to establish Grow On Waihi! Grow On is a community run organization that promotes local food resilience.
As many of you may know this is a very important subject to both Amber and I.
We are very excited to see what opportunities are going to come our way!
Please follow our Grow On Waihi page!

15/04/2025

I'm looking for work in the Waihi/Tauranga area for gardening, landscaping, or any other handyman sort of tasks. I have extensive experience in landscape construction and permaculture gardening. I charge $35 per hour. You can reach me at 022 516 4821

07/03/2025

Hey everyone. I've gotten a space at the Matakana market, and I'm going to be here regularly. If you're in the area, come pay us a visit!

03/12/2024

03/12/2024

We've got some pretty epic flowers this year!

25/10/2024

Our new pig Marshmallow has given birth, and we are now the proud owners of 9 new little piggies!

11/10/2024

💚🌲Arborist Mulch Wanted, please 🌲💚

4127 Kaipara Coast Highway, just south of the Tauhoa Hall.

We would be so very grateful to receive fresh or aged Mulch, to feed into our Food and Cut Flower permaculture garden, in the heart of Ariki Estate, on the Kaipara Coast Highway.

For our truck drivers: follow the sign posts from the road. Convenient location to unload.
Turning space to unhitch chipper if necessary.

Thanks for sharing with those who may be able to help 🙏

Cheers

Amber and Josh 🌻