Society is increasingly aware of the connection between the health of the land, of animals and of humans. Visions of ‘foodscapes’ and ‘healthscapes’ are eclipsing the conventional view of landscapes focused solely on production. Aotearoa’s dairy farming systems must co-evolve with this thinking. Lincoln University CoE DFPL has designed and is implementing the Integral Health Dairy Farm to test and communicate these new and transformational systems views.

The integral health Dairy Farm was conceived and designed as a strategic technological niche for system and embedded component research approaches, enabling sustainable innovation journeys. The project aims to create a protected space that allows experimentation to co-evolve with technology of processes and inputs, user practices and regulatory structures. The project’s niche space welcomes and protects small application domains with radical, novel ideas and incipient technical and social innovations, giving them an opportunity to mature. In this process, new ideas and technology evolve into multiple dimensions, creating ‘configurations that work’, influencing user and consumer preferences, and desirable product development.

Join us for the second Lincoln University Integral Health Dairy Farm “Field Day/Meeting”. We want and need you to be part of this transformative endeavour … and that is why we would like to:

· Present the project’s:

o Current state,

o First production results,

o Advances in system component implementations,

o Next year’s implementation steps.

· Get your thoughts, ideas, and constructive criticism to the project’s:

o Principal components in practice,

o Future steps,

o Implementations,

· Establish -with you- a series of:

o Small discussion workshops on the principal components of the system.

· … and mainly … Get you on board!

Monday 4th December

1 pm to 5 pm

Ashley Dene Research and Development Station,

736 Bethels Rd, Springston, Canterbury

Due to space, health and safety and biosecurity limitations registration is essential

Lincoln University Integral Health Dairy Farm Field Day