Getting back to our roots
We’re a farming family, with the business now in the hands of Mum, Dad, and us three brothers. We grew up on the flat, fertile lands of the Canterbury Plains; our childhood filled with rides on the back of the tractor and helping out in the fields. But the Crozier story started long before that.
GrandAd Eric and Grandma Dawn
When Grandad Eric was a young lad, he would carry milk in a drum from house to house using simple billy to fill up milk bottles. Grandad Eric and Grandma Dawn took over the family farm in 1950 – the same year there was a worldwide potato shortage causing a record year for the value of the humble spud.
Lynn and Christine (Mum & DAd)
From the age of six, Dad’s destiny was set looking after calves and pulling fodder beet. Grandad Eric and Dad became partners in the farm in 1981. That same year, Mum and Dad bought 22 acres in Gardeners Road. Our veggies were in full swing at both farms.
The brothers
When first born Scott was little, he would bang his head on the wall of the house if he couldn’t help his dad on the farm. Scott, Andrew, Glen and Todd would hoe and cut lettuce with help from the kids next door and family friends. Farm life was and still is a real team sport. Scott married Maree and they currently live in Denver. Andrew, Glen and Todd together with their partners Sarah, Annabel and Clare and Mum and Dad, run what we know today as Crozier Farm.
The next generation
And then there’s the kids — the future of Crozier Farm who just love getting their hands dirty and helping out with your veg whenever they can; Anna, Jane, Maddison, Camilla, Elsie, Charlie, Millie, Pippa, Zach and Emma. As Crozier Farm grows, so too does the family.
