Organic farmer Shannon Wright will host visitors of the Open Farms initiative at her Waikato property. Shannon Wright used to go to work wearing nail polish on her fingers but now she comes home with soil under her fingernails. It has been almost five years since she swapped out her office job to start a business growing and supplying vegetables for farmers markets, organic food outlets and supermarkets in Hamilton and Cambridge. “I used to work in accounts, payroll, HR, health and safety for a firm in Te Rapa but things started to change after I had Izabel, my third child.