Young Country
Training city kids for farms
The Growing Future Farmers programme has gone nationwide with 80 students learning about farming, hands-on.
Delivering delectable lamb
The daughters of a Marlborough high country farming couple have created a sustainable family business offering Merino lamb direct to consumers. Rebecca Greaves reports.
On a roll with wool
After school, it was a choice of working in a bank or picking up the shearing handpiece for a young Northland woman. Shearing won. By Glenys Christian. Photos: Malcolm Pullman.
Wonderful wool coats
Inspiration for a product originating on the family farm came from standing on the cold winter sidelines of a rugby match.
Learning wool’s wonders
Wool in schools, a project that educates Kiwi school children about the wonders of wool, will see its 25,000th student pass through its ‘wool sheds’ in August.
Agency responds to equity challenge
Rising land values and challenges for young farmers to secure bank funding have prompted Bayleys Eastern Realty to promote its equity partnership initiative.
Low cost and simple
A young Rangitikei couple are farming family lease blocks with the aim of eventually buying their own farm, Russell Priest writes. Photos: Brad Hanson.
Champion lamb country
A King Country farm manager and her team have a reputation for finishing good lambs on hill country, Mike Bland writes.
Taking to the handpiece
Alex Clapman Typifies the West Otago community spirit that drove the ‘Shear 4 Blair’ Waitangi Weekend shearing marathon.