Learn How To
GROW YOUR OWN FOOD, THE EASY WAY
Done-with-you, at your place, with expert local support.
Welcome to Food Insurance!
We’re on a mission to teach people how to grow their own food.
Learning how to grow your own food is an absolutely fundamental skill – that is unfortunately not being taught to most people. People have become overly dependent on supermarkets, and each new generation is losing touch with where the food on our plate actually comes from.
Let’s face it – learning to grow food can be challenging when you’re doing it all alone. Oftentimes people start to learn, but get disheartened when things don’t fully go to plan straight away.
This is why we started Food Insurance. Food-growing done-with-you, at your place, with expert local support. Founded by Dave & Josh – two mates with a passion for gardening and permaculture, who want to help fellow Kiwi’s reconnect with the soil and grow their own food.
When you become a member with Food Insurance, we’ll regularly come to your place and ensure you always have a lush garden full of food – sharing our knowledge and techniques with you along the way.
When we visit, we deliver new seeds/seedlings/plants & trees to ensure your space is looking lush – and leave you with a short video/worksheet to keep you fully in the loop, every step of the way.
All subscribers also get access to our community of other growers, and their very own, fully managed compost bin.
So, why subscribe with us?
Grow nutrient-dense food fed by homemade compost/fertiliser.
Equip yourself with skills to provide for yourself and your community.
Learn more about soil and natural systems.
Eat veggies without poisonous residues (glyphosate).
Liberate yourself from supermarket spikes and global trends.
Increase the biodiversity of our ecosystem – new seeds & seedlings delivered as & when required.
Connect with other members via our our Facebook and WhatsApp groups.
Localise Abundance.
How it Works:
WE MAKE IT EASY TO GROW YOUR OWN FOOD!
Book a free site visit with us, then subscribe for as little as $80 per month. You’ll need a spare square metre of garden bed. We can provide you with a simple raised bed install if needed, for an additional cost.
Our options are flexible – most of our customers want a 1-2 metre garden bed with all the kiwi favourites for salads and roast veges – however others opt for a full-blown 30-metre-plus food forest. The options are endless.
2. Set Up
If you are within range of our available locations, book a free site visit where we can become acquainted.
If you are then keen to sign up – we will come back to your place to set up your garden bed, and drop in your first batch of herb and veggie seedlings.
You’ll be notified whenever your crops are ready to harvest and the progress on your next tray of plant babies! We also have a WhatsApp & Facebook group where all our gardeners can collab and discuss ideas.
3. Regular check ins
When we come back to catch up we’ll see how your garden patch is progressing. We will work with your goals to maximise production to a manageable level.
Twice per season we deliver more seeds/plants/seedlings/trees, along with a cheat sheet containing instructions, lessons and guidance on how to keep things balanced. If you aren’t home when we arrive, we’ll send you a detailed video walkthrough of how your garden is progressing, and any handy hints/tips that will benefit you!
All of our subscriptions include a fully managed compost bin!
Homemade bio-recycling is an essential part of consistently growing your own food.
Food scraps are a valuable resource containing minerals and nutrients that feed plants.
Food scraps are a valuable resource containing minerals and nutrients that can feed your plants.
All you have to do is throw your food scraps in the compost bin – we’ll ensure the worm population is healthy, and your soil is progressing as it should be – educating you along the way.
Our Mission:
WE BELIEVE THAT
EVERYONE IN NEW ZEALAND SHOULD BE ABLE TO GROW THEIR OWN FOOD.
EVERYONE IN NEW ZEALAND SHOULD BE ABLE TO GROW THEIR OWN FOOD.
> GROW ORGANIC FOOD
> CULTIVATE RESILIENT COMMUNITIES
> LOCALISE ABUNDANCE
FREE SITE VISIT
Ready to jump on board?
Your first step is to book a free site visit and we can discuss your options.
Serving the East Coast Bays, North Shore, Auckland.
More locations to be added later. Contact us to request a new area.
Once subscribed, pricing starts from $80/month. We will discuss all the details at your free site visit.
Why Choose Food Insurance?
Proven Grid System
Transplanting seedlings means neat, precise rows. This is especially essential for new growers in order to learn how edible plants look.
LOCAL Guidance
Learn from an local grower who lives in your climate. As great as online information is, ecology varies vastly from place to place.
FOOD SOVEREIGNTY
Reduce your vulnerability to the instability of our industrial food system. Keep your supply accessible and your residence resilient.
COMPANION PLANTING
Each tray will include at least 5 species that will each fill a niche to reduce pests, enrich soil, hold moisture, attract benefical species.
NUTRIENT DENSE CYCLES
We feed our gardens with help from the most powerful and experienced organic fertilisers on earth-worms.
ABUNDANT NEIGHBOUR
Our grid system is scalable so you can have excesses to share with neighbours and create a new culture of mutually beneficial relationships.
STOP EATING POSION
Industrial produce is laced with glyphosate. We grow food with zero herbicides and pesticides.
CLOSED LOOP ECONOMY
When you include a fully managed fertiliser factory (worm farm), last months scraps will feed next months food.
SAFER NEIGHBOURHOODS
Lack of live food is a major cause of crime. When food is available, we can collectively rise from fight or flight mode.
What's possible
Vitamin Cabinet
1m x 1m garden bed.
Grow leafy greens, cooking herbs, and medicinal teas.
Always have a lush, highly diverse 1m x 1m garden bed at your place.
Establish a local health source
Interested? Check if you are within our locations, then book a free site visit.
Living Pantry
Teepee + additional planters.
Grow full, well-balanced meals.
Includes:
– 2 visits to your garden per season.
– A fully serviced and managed Hungry Bin worm farm for your composting.
– Various Potatoes (White, Sweet/Kumara, Apple…)
– Cooking Herb Bushes (Rosemary, Thyme, Oregano…)
– Your own Teepee tower with vine veggies (Peas, Pumpkins, Cucumbers etc.
Interested? Check if you are within our locations, then book a free site visit.
Food Insurance Food Forest
3 Food Forest rows. 12m x 3m total area.
This option is completely different to the vitamin cabinet and living pantry.
Best suited for people with a decent amount of space, who want to see the benefits of long-term growing. Come along for the journey and learn about syntropic agroforestry with us!
You’ll receive is a full syntropic system, utilising the permaculture principles of succession – planting through space and time!
Includes:
– 2 visits to your garden per season.
– A fully serviced and managed Hungry Bin worm farm for your composting.
– 12 x 3m (2 support rows, one tree line)
– Everyday favorites + intriguing exotics
– Exponential growth year on year
Start any time throughout the year.
Interested? Check if you are within our locations, then book a free site visit.
