Rawhiti farm landscape and infrastructure

Rawhiti Farm · Te Aroha, Waikato

Rawhiti FarmTurning waste into food and nutrients on a working Waikato farm

Waste to food/Kiwi-made pork/Local Community

Rawhiti Farm sits on Pukeora Station, Te Aroha. We are a working pig farm that takes waste which would otherwise reach landfill and turns it into food and fertiliser, while respecting our land, environment, community and our future.

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On the ground

Te Aroha Maunga and the ridge country above Rawhiti — Riparian planting along our waterways and iwi-led native planting on our farm and Te Aroha Maunga with Ngāti Tumutumu

The gully before native planting in 2024, overgrown with weeds and bare slopes

The same hillside after native planting: flax, grasses and young natives established

Freshly planted natives on the effluent bladder embankment

Rawhiti in photos

Real work, real land, real people — the farm as it actually looks today.

Young native plantings across the Rawhiti hill country at dusk

Josh sitting in a farm ATV at Rawhiti

A pig drinking from a water dispenser in the shed

A team member at a planning meeting on the farm

Native plantings along a gully stream at Rawhiti

Gary Thomas and colleagues holding his Stock Person of the Year 2026 award

A pig sleeping in fresh bedding at Rawhiti

Work experience — clearing fallen branches on the farm

Rawhiti farm landscape

A Rawhiti team member with pigs in the shed behind him

Pigs gathered around a water dispenser in the shed

Community bonfire gathering at Rawhiti

Native planting on a freshly formed embankment at Rawhiti

A team member's selfie with Gary moving pigs near the feed silos at Rawhiti

Pigs on fresh bedding in the Rawhiti sheds, seen from above

Gary Thomas with Thomas Nabbs and Misael Abellanosa at the NZ Pork awards

Aerial photo of a covered Kliptank at Rawhiti

Hamish swimming in a native bush stream on the farm

Close-up of a pig in the Rawhiti sheds

Thomas Nabbs relaxing on a pile of bedding material at Rawhiti

On the farm at Rawhiti

A piglet looking up at the camera in the shed

Panoramic view of the ridge country above Rawhiti at sunset

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