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Along the short path to Kelmarna community farm visitors are transported from suburbia to a rural oasis.

The 4 and a half acre block of land is nestled between the affluent Auckland suburbs of Ponsonby and Herne Bay, the last place you'd expect to find a farm.

Photo: RNZ Ross McNaughton

The section is full of fruit trees, flower gardens, vegetables plots, and animals. As Adrian Roche shows First Up around chickens crowd around the gate of their coop hoping to be fed. Bees swarm around their hives in the spring sun.

Photo: RNZ Ross McNaughton

"We really love having the bees here to help make all that pollination happen, and we love having the honey t

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