About Us

Emily Rushton is a Registered Nurse finishing a Masters in Sustainability, Health and Wellbeing. Over the past 5 years, she has racked up a lot of climate change activism politically through the UNFCCC, helping in the team that coordinates the youth for the UN climate change meetings, nationally in NZ supporting organisations and also at grassroots levels - like the 33 talks she did from Auckland to Invercargill aimed at health professionals that earned her the NZNO Runner-Up Young Nurse of the year in 2016. 

Her dream has always been to get some land and use it to educate and empower others to live their best, most sustainable and fulfilling lives. 
Zara, her partner, is even better at DIY then Emily and loves to cook for people. In early Feb 2020, they spotted the perfect piece of paradise. 80acres of mostly farmland in the Wekaweka valley, with volcanic soil, 6 cows and their 5 babies and two ducks. 
This whenua has been named Sherock - for the ridiculously rocky volcanic nature and the two females setting it up and the ultimate goal to also empower women.

The long-term plans are:

- to be off-grid
-  to reforest a lot of the farm
- create an animal sanctuary

- create an off-grid living for people to live low-cost while contributing to the causes

- start food forests for the community and market

- have an area for climate activists to be able to work from with no costs associated so they don't have to also work 

- A retreat for sexually abused people identifying as a female that is in acute distress living in such a male world and need some space to heal

- Eco-AirBNBs with optional permaculture and eco-education or interaction with the rescued animals
 

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