Ep 47: Farming Free of Fossil Fuels with Electric Cherry's Mike Casey

An orchard in Otago is doing things a little differently by ditching the diesel vehicles and machinery, installing solar panels, and adding an adopt-a-tree programme. Forest Lodge Orchard near Cromwell is better known by the name, Electric Cherry - a name inspired by their journey to become New Zealand's first certified fossil free cherry orchard. For Mike Casey, his wife Rebecca and partners Euan and Rachel White, this has been an incredible adventure. Together, they have gone from knowing nothing about growing cherries to having over 9,000 trees in the ground and a determination to show others that going electric is better for the bottom line and environment.