About Sunset Free Range Poultry

Sunset Free Range Poultry was established in 2007 by husband and wife team Gareth and Anita Manning.

Gareth and Anita own a 7.5 hectare lifestyle block in a small country community called Waipipi, 50 minutes southwest of Auckland where they live with their three young boys.

Not long after moving to their bare block of land, they created a veggie garden and bought a good sized flock of hobby chickens for their own free range egg consumption. Their egg production flourished and Gareth and Anita were soon offloading excess free range eggs to family, friends and workmates.

The rest, you could say, is history - construction of a purposebuilt free range egg farm was soon underway, the first flock of 1,300 Brown Shavers arrived in November 2007 and within days the first eggs arrived.

A growing business

In the last year the company has gone from a small 'backyard' type business to an opertaion requiring a few more hands at the helm. Sunset Free Range Poultry now supply many reputable supermarkets, restaurants, cafes, gourmet grocers and butcheries throughout the North Island of New Zealand.

The company is steadily growing and expanding its client base to as far away as Wellington.

Gareth and Anita have recently joined forces with Oraig and Kim Wilcox to take their business to an even higher level. With their passion and business acumen, Sunset Free Range Poultry will continue to gain market share not only in existing areas but with new ventures as well.

Photo: Stephanie Maunsell, Editor, NZ Lifestyle Farmer Magazine