Aimee Blake

Aimee Blake is a rural professional, social researcher and systems thinker with a passion for reconnecting people back to food systems. She is currently pursuing her second master's degree at Lincoln University, specialising in agribusiness and researching the role of information in land use decision-making. Aimee’s rural roots run deep as the sixth generation on her family’s small dairy farm in Waiau Pa, Tāmaki Makaurau. 

Aimee is on a mission to support sustainable transformations and is the Co-chair of Future Farmers New Zealand a collective of young farmers, students, and urbanites who are passionate about ahuwhenua and the principles of kaitiakitanga. This group aims to discuss and inform beliefs, principles and policies to shape the future of New Zealand farming. She is also Co-founder of Girls who Grow, a grassroots initiative on a mission to grow the next generation of female changemakers, leaders and environmental guardians towards climate-positive agriculture to ensure prosperous food systems for New Zealand. 

Aimee loves connection, storytelling, and is endlessly curious. She is excited about embracing change for a healthy future. Food has always been her love language, and getting together to connect over a meal is one of her favourite ways to spend time. If she could choose one superpower, it would be to enable people to talk and communicate with plants and animals so that we can better understand each other and the natural world around us.