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60x1
A Natural Flow
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A West Otago family works with nature on their large organic farm and sells their beef and lamb direct to customers.
60x2
Big is Beautiful
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A couple combines their two passions of running the family dairy farm and breeding Clydesdale horses for showing, ploughing and harness work.
60x3
Walk on the Wild Side
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A Wairarapa family hosts visitors on the North Island’s original farm walk and develops two neighbouring properties to support the next generation’s farming future.
60x4
New Pastures
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A love of farming discovered in prison has led a former inmate to become an award-winning manager of a Waikato dairy farm, while sharing his story with rangatahi.
60x5
Hog Wild
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A Timaru couple passionate about pigs, produce high-quality, free-range pork, for restaurants and supermarkets around the country.
60x6
Kai School
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A Southland woman shares her knowledge of kaimoana gathering and hunting with others wanting to connect with the whenua, while a global audience follows her on TikTok.
60x7
Tide After Tide
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A young family at 90 Mile Beach is ensuring sustainably harvested and processed mussels continue to be a way of life for their Far North community.
60x8
Sure-Footed
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A family with deep roots to their King Country property pursues their passion for breeding Arabian horses and hosting endurance rides on their sheep and beef farm.
60x9
Bee Kind
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A Far North family of beekeepers are hands-on with their business from working with nature, through to packing, marketing and selling honey to their local community.
60x10
Sam The Trap Man
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A trapper and conservation worker helps farmers control predators on their land while revitalising the native Whio population on the North Island's East Coast.
60x11
Rock Solid
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A Canterbury high country family runs a diverse farming operation, including deer, a breed of lamb that's renowned for its taste and texture, and a new agri-tourism venture.
60x12
Flour to the People
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A central Canterbury cropping farmer, keen to have more control over the grains he grows, has built his own stone mill and grinds specialty flour using traditional methods.
60x13
Tight Knit Family
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A Southland family breeds strong wool sheep for top-quality yarn, with one of their daughters using the wool-clip to create jerseys that are sold through a farm-gate business.
60x14
Robots in the Shed
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A Manawatu family has robots milking their dairy cows, allowing each cow to choose when they’re milked over 24-hours, and freeing up time for the farmers to do other things.
60x15
Sweet Resilience
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A Northland couple escapes life in the big smoke to produce commercial quantities of subtropical fruit, making a positive contribution to the challenges of a warming climate.
60x16
All Wrapped Up
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A Southland deer farmer has developed a natural, edible alternative to plastic for wrapping baleage, and hopes the innovation will fund his dream of owning a high-country farm.
60x17
Big Country
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A couple finds their sheep and beef farm isn't paying its way, so they switch to regenerative farming, focus on soil health, and their finances start to improve.
60x18
Texas Gold
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A Bay of Plenty hapu develops flourishing kiwifruit orchards and dairy farms, returning its people to land previously confiscated by the Crown.
60x19
Nutting It Out
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A Christchurch couple wanting a change after the earthquakes buy a hazelnut orchard and turn their hand to creating an artisan range from their nuts and some grown by others.
60x20
Kumara Country
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A Northland kumara growing couple, bounces back after being hard hit by Cyclone Gabrielle and now employs thirty staff.
60x21
Yakety Yak
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A Nelson vet farms a herd of Himalayan yaks along with his red deer, and juggles care of his own animals with his veterinary work around the district.
60x22
In the Deep End
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A new generation takes over an historic Rangitikei sheep station, employing both young workers and old hands, and creating a farm walk to add further income.
60x23
Soil to Oil
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An olive grower takes an evidence-based approach to producing oil that is full of flavour and health benefits, focusing on enriching the soil on his Martinborough grove.
60x24
Super Grass
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A Southland family diversifies into growing medicinal cannabis on their sheep farm, where they’ve bred stud animals for generations.
60x25
Queen of the Herd
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A self-taught cheese maker and lover of goats milks her own herd, making artisan cheeses and sharing her knowledge through tours and cheese making classes.
60x26
Go For Gold
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A Bay of Plenty family continues to lead the way, growing gold kiwifruit on their orchard with the use of cutting-edge technology and careful soil management.
60x27
A Capital Idea
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A couple farms sheep and cattle on the exposed, steep hills west of Wellington, and sells their meat under their own label to restaurants and direct to customers.
60x28
Happy Campers
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A family realise their dream of owning a farm and now practice natural horsemanship and share their love of horses and the land with others on their Whanganui property.
60x29
Wahine Ahuwhenua
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An award-winning farm manager and her wife are challenging stereotypes by running two large sheep and beef stations in Central Hawke's Bay.
60x30
Passing the Reins
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A high country family keeps alive the traditions of its annual autumn cattle muster, as the next generation starts to put their mark on the remote Marlborough station.
60x31
Oil Fields
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A Taranaki dairy farming family diversifies into raising Gotland sheep, and growing paddocks of Mānuka to distil into oil for balms, gels and health products.
60x32
Room to Grow
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A couple swap the corporate life to become homesteaders on a small block of land in Horowhenua, growing mushrooms, making specialty food products and raising a few animals.
60x33
Taranaki Prime
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A farming couple pioneers a field-to-fork co-op producing premium beef and lamb with fewer food miles, and selling local meat to local people.
60x34
TBC
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