High Peak Station
High Peak Station has just recently won the Ballance Farm Environment Awards – Supreme
High Peak is a quality producer of honey, beef, lamb, farm raised venison and game . It promotes the “Paddock to Plate” experience including lodging and conference facilities.
High Peak Station is Family-based, custodial aspect with environmental and biodiversity values. Not all honeys are made equal and High Peak strive to do the best by their bees, the environment and to give consumers a premium product. Farm raised venison – raised at scale and as close to natural behaviours as possible. Minimal intervention with livestock while protecting and enhancing the natural environment. A challenging environment but it adds to the experience.
Ben meets the family – mum, (Anna Guild) 2 brothers (Simon & Hamish Guild), sister (Amelia Dunbar) and her husband (Tom Dunbar) and all the children/grandchildren. Dad jJames Guild) had recently passed The families all live in separate accommodation across the station. Ben deer hunts, learns about their
honey making and how the station functions from a conservation and sustainability perspective. Ben cooks venison – a great BBQ with the children helping.
Tora Collective
Troy Bramley and Claire Edwards are co-owners and fishers of Tora Collective. They started Tora Collective, with the dream of keeping kaimoana in Aotearoa. They were fed up with New Zealand’s best seafood being shipped offshore to be enjoyed in other hemispheres. They wanted to ensure Kiwis and visitors alike, could experience the unique delicacies from their shores by . supplying kaimoana (seafood) – fresh as, and coming straight from the ocean. Tora is a hidden gem, tucked away in an untouched corner of New Zealand.
Combining their industry knowledge, skills, and passion for the cause, they launched Tora Collective, with the purpose of supplying Aotearoa with the absolute freshest and most sustainable kaimoana. By sustainably harvesting to order seasonally, and sending it to customers straight from the nutrient- rich salt waters of Tora overnight. The result? Truly fresh, sustainable kaimoana enjoyed by Kiwis, and on menus across the country – while leading the charge in sustainable fishing!
Ben joins Troy for the day harvesting Crayfish and also dives for paua.
