'Just plant more seeds and keep going': the couple who ditched corporate life for growing greens

'Just plant more seeds and keep going': the couple who ditched corporate life for growing greens

'Just plant more seeds and keep going': A young family are redefining self-sufficiency by growing a new salad business.

New Zealand: Abandoning a corporate life for a growing life

Callum and Amanda McLean are one year into developing the 12-acre McLean Farm which feeds their young family, and provides a living from selling salads at a local market. A stint working on a homestead and the work of Taranaki-based bio-intensive gardening educator and restoration grazing consultant Jodi…

The couple who ditched corporate life for growing greens

Reading Time: 3 minutes Callum and Amanda McLean are one year into developing the 12-acre McLean Farm which feeds their young family, and provides a living from selling salads at a local market. A stint working on a homestead and the work of Taranaki-based bio-intensive gardening educator and restoration grazing consultant Jodi Roebuck inspired Callum McLean to look at the possibilities offered by small-scale farming he told Summer Times. “That’…