Tree Range Farms

Our baby emus are growing fast, the teenagers are enjoying a cool off bath in the warmer afternoons and there are lots of new babies popping up around the farm at the moment!

Eggs and strawberries are still about a month away, but there’s plenty happening in the meantime! I’ll organise a spring open day soon so the kids can come out to feed the animals and meet all the new little ones 🤍

Have an event, party, wedding, market, or celebration coming up?

Our coffee, milkshake, and real fruit ice cream trailer is available for bookings, and our summer calendar is already starting to fill up!

Whether it’s a private function, wedding, school fundraiser, sporting event, corporate event, or community gathering, we’d love to help make your event even sweeter.

We’re available for events throughout Central Otago and the Central Lakes.

Get in touch today to secure your date before your preferred date is gone! 🤍

Our strawberry rows and free-range chickens set against a pretty spectacular Central Otago backdrop 🏔️

Can’t wait to welcome you all back soon!

Join us to work at Tree Range Farms this Summer!

Love ice cream, coffee, sunshine, animals, strawberries and farm life? We might have the perfect summer job for you!

We’re looking for a friendly, reliable all rounder to join us, could start now but main hours will be over our busy summer season (from late November to early February). Perfect for a uni student on break, a traveller (accommodation can be discussed), or anyone looking for a fun, varied summer role.

Role Includes:
-Picking, packing and caring for our strawberries
-Making coffees and real fruit ice creams in our food trailer
-Welcoming visitors to our strawberry patch
-Collecting, packing and delivering eggs
-Restocking our farm shop
-Feeding animals
-Helping out with birthday parties, weekend farm events and activities

Bonus if you:
-Have a driver’s licence and can tow a trailer
-Have barista or customer service experience

Hours:
-Mainly afternoons & weekends but could be full time throughout the summer school holidays.

If this sounds like your kind of summer, we’d love to hear from you. Send us a message or email telling us a bit about yourself, your experience and availability, and why you’d be a great fit for the Tree Range team.

Great news gardeners, There are LOTS more seed potatoes in the shop! 🥔

We’ve got a whole bunch of different varieties (Agria, Russet, French Fingerling, Jersey Benne) from the wonderful Gillian Swinton, author of The Good Life. So if you’re planning your spring veggie garden, come and have a dig through!

If you’ve got something you’d like to sell through our the farm shop, whether it’s a one off drop, or something you’d like to supply regularly over summer - we’d love to hear from you! We’re particularly looking for fresh fruit and vegetables, and we have a fridge available for produce that needs to stay chilled! 🍒🥕🥬

So if you’re growing, making or producing something and think it might be a good fit for the shop, please get in touch! 🌱🧶🫙

The Tree Range boys providing some premium chicken perching real estate! Comment a photo of your chooks below for your chance to win a bag of Layer Mix!

Here at the farm spring is our busiest time of year for chicks & pullets and now that the September girls have headed out to their new homes it’s time to start thinking about October orders:

• Brown Shaver Chicks - 8th October
• Brown Shaver Pullets - 17th October

Collection from Tree Range, Alexandra (Central Otago), or delivery can be arranged. You can book now through our website or send us a message if you have any questions. 🐥

Just picked up your strawberry plants or collecting tomorrow? A few frequently asked questions and quick tips!

Frost: The plant itself is frost hardy, the flowers are the vulnerable part. If a flower is frosted, the centre can turn black and that flower won’t develop into a strawberry. If a late Central Otago frost is forecast and you have lots of flowers, covering them overnight with frost cloth can help protect those early fruiting flowers.

Planting:
•Keep the crown (where the leaves meet the roots) at soil level, don’t bury it.
•Plant somewhere sunny.
•Keep them well watered while they establish.
•Make sure they have good drainage.

Albion are an ever bearing/day-neutral variety, so they’ll keep flowering and producing fruit throughout the season rather than all at once.

If you haven’t picked up your order yet, you can do so at anytime from now, they are in our roadside shop. Happy planting (and eventually eating!). Thanks again everyone 🍓

Table manners are clearly optional around here, especially when the feed is this good!

Our laying Emu and Chickens enjoying the Old Mill Free Range Layer Mix, while the Sheep and Daisy the Goat are loving the Multi Nuts.

When you pick up your chook orders, we suggest grabbing a bag of the same feed to help them settle into their new home without changing their diet straight away. At the farm we use and highly recommend Old Mill, Southland grown grains and in compostable bags!

Their full range is available in our roadside shop. Eftpos, cash or bank transfer 🌾

There’s something pretty special about growing your own food, and we’re looking forward to hearing about and seeing all your backyard strawberry patches come to life!

And a huge, heartfelt thank you for the absolutely overwhelming response. There were a few very busy days of happy dances as you all blew up my phone with your orders ❤️ Not long now until we’re all enjoying our favourite summer fruit! 🍓