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Taruna Farm is situated at the highest point of the French Pass Road, Whitehall, 10 kms East of Cambridge, New Zealand. The farm is 383m above sea level at it's highest point Pukemako (Hill of Bellbirds), adjacent to the Gudex Memorial Park and off Maungakawa Road. It is 10 minutes from Cambridge and two hours from Auckland International Airport with easy access to either coast of the North Island.  It is one and a half hours drive to the beautiful wilderness of the West Coast beaches of Kawhia and Raglan and one hour east to Mount Maunganui;  two hours to Waihi and Whangamata and further north to the Coromandel Peninsula. The farm is 14 kms from Lake Karapiro, venue for the 2010 World Rowing Championships and other major aquatic pursuits.

Taruna Farm is a working drystock farm of 710 acres currently farming 1200 high performance Coopworth breeding ewes, 350 replacement hoggets and 370 dairy grazers.

The Farm has been home to four generations of the Gardner family. The original family settlers Frank and Shirley Gardner arrived in 1936 and they raised a family of three children, John, Jillian and Christopher. As a Millenium project Frank and Shirley's lives were commemorated by a Memorial Stone situated a short distance from the present homestead. Christopher and Janet Gardner came onto the farm in 1972 following their marriage in England. They raised three children, Ellen Marion (born 1973), James Christopher Montfort (born 1976) and Amy Janet (born 1978). The fourth generation arrived in the form of Amy's children, Thomas, Alexander and Frederick Beech.