About Us
Liz Riddiford
Liz has a lifelong passion for native plants and sustainability. Now mostly retired, her work life included parenting three children, various lawyering and teaching roles, and a garden design business. She regularly returns to Ruamāhanga Farm – in between circumnavigating Aotearoa’s stunning coastline with her partner in a sailboat, and exploring its many treasures on land and sea.
Jane Riddiford
Jane began her journey into native revegetation in the early 90’s whilst co-leading the establishment of a native inner city forest on three hectares of degraded land, in the Newton Gully in Central Auckland. During that time she learned that growing a forest is about growing a community. In 2004 Jane co-founded award winning environmental education charity Global Generation in London, which was the catalyst for her doctoral study of leadership within community initiatives. Jane is now a trustee of the Aorangi Restoration Trust.
Lucy Riddiford
Lucy is a lawyer with experience in large infrastructure projects. She is currently the General Counsel of Clarus. She has a particular interest in values based approaches which enable different parts of the community to come together.
Rod Sugden
Rod is a former primary school teacher with experience of connecting children and young people to nature. He worked in London in both state and private schools as well as community settings for Global Generation and The Listening Space, an organic garden in the middle of a GP Practice that offers a wide range of green / social prescribing activities. Rod lives on Ruamāhanga farm with Jane and our mother Yvonne Riddiford.
Yvonne Riddiford
Yvonne is in her 100th year and about Ruamāhanga Farm Foundation she says, “I am fascinated by this new chapter that is opening at Ruamāhanga Farm where I have lived for nearly 50 years. I have enjoyed immensely meeting all the different people who have come to help us.”
