Happy Farm is a small, family-run market garden based in Mosgiel, operated by Sen and his wife, Bing. With a deep-rooted passion for growing food, Sen has been farming since childhood, learning from his father, who has over 35 years of growing experience in China. The farm was previously used for grazing horses and has good soil quality as confirmed by DCC records and benefits from its own well for water supply.

Sen and Bing cultivate a variety of fresh vegetables without using chemical sprays, including water spinach, baby Chinese cabbage, Shanghai cabbage and many more. To ensure peak freshness and flavour, all their produce is harvested on the same day it is sold. With plans to build additional greenhouses for year-round production, Sen and Bing are excited to share their fresh, homegrown vegetables with the Dunedin community, offering a taste of locally grown goodness straight from their farm.

Sen Li and his wife, Bing, like growing vegetables. They own Happy Farm just outside the Mosgiel township on the Taieri, a sheltered 9.5hectare farm with its own well on the land. 

As a child & young adult, Sen, learnt about market gardening from his father in the Shandong Province - known as the 'home of vegetables' in China. Sen and his family came to Dunedin a few years back, to study IT & language before finding the perfect land to grow his produce using no chemical sprays.  Sen hopes to use natural neem oil next year for cabbages, etc for as little intervention as possible. 

Sen is constantly trialling growing different vegies to see what will work on their land that has harsh winters & hot summers. They are happy to see that customers at the Otago Farmers Market like their just picked, fresh great value produce and say the people here are very nice. They aim to have more larger tunnel houses in the future to extend their season (having lost ¾ of their coriander harvest to frost) so the people in Dunedin have more fresh choices in winter they say.  The intention is to sell even more traditional Asian vegies & varieties to extend their popular range of broccoli, capsicum, cucumbers, spring onions, coriander, cauli, cabbages, etc with water-spinach, choy sum, & Shanghai cabbage being popular favourites in their first season of trading. 

Look for their smiling, welcoming faces at one of the happiest stalls in the lower Market!