Posts by Ben Grogan
More time with the kids, freedom, fewer interruptions, loneliness – what it’s really like working from home
Becky Nicholson, Emily Walker and Michaela Gower share their unique versions of entwining work and home life.
Read MoreLiv & René
A chance conversation about SCOBYs between nutritionist and medical herbalist René, 46, and avid fermenter Liv, 37, first led to friendship and then a business partnership.
Read MoreThe rural rūmaki teacher with big aspirations for te ao Māori ways of learning
Te Waikohua Rata is a rural rūmaki teacher with dreams of seeing a grading system in place for te ao Māori ways of learning in the public schooling system.
Read MoreGatherings
Letter from the Editor, Raumati Summer 2022/23.
Read MoreFrom the classroom to the chicken shed: two young teachers and their children enjoying more time – and presence – after a move to the country
Jay and Josh, both primary school teachers for more than five years, decided to trade in the school-bell routine for a life on a farm – but neither of them were farmers and they’d barely even set foot on a farm before.
Read MoreLife as a nurse and midwife on remote Great Barrier Island
Midwife and rural nurse, Adele has spent the better part of her working life making it possible for women in the isolated communities of Aotea to have their babies at home.
Read MoreSmall Prophet, big reward: the Tokanui trio fostering creativity and community through their thriving business in a small town at the very bottom of New Zealand
Sarah, Ann and Sheila, each bringing their own expertise and creative passion, joined forces to form Small Prophet, a design studio at the edge of the world.
Read MoreEducation as ‘succession planning’: shaping future generations with manaaki and aroha
Maikara Ropata, on how she uses waiata, kapa haka and education in te ao Māori to help shape future generations of decision makers.
Read MoreReturning age 63 to run the family farm and “fixing this place up so my mum would have smiled”
Now the Waitahora Valley’s oldest resident, Sue left for boarding school at twelve and returned aged sixty-three to work the family farm.
Read MoreThe seventeen-year-old spending her spare time helping to make Aotearoa predator free
Not many teenagers choose to spend their spare time setting, monitoring and emptying pest traps, but Becca is doing just that.
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