Finding their Farm
Ilka Seeback
Moving is never easy, least of all when you’re headed across the ocean to make a home in a new country. Meet Ilka Seebeck in Balfour on a sheep and beef farm.
Soil Studies
Caring for the land and the environment starts with caring for the soil. That’s the ethos behind Rere ki Uta Rere ki Tai.
Family Trees
It wasn’t until adulthood that Mairangi began her journey to rediscover her heritage and whakapapa.
A Call Away
Long-time sheep and beef farmer Jen Le Pine, 50, fills her cup with volunteering in the Cheviot community.
Finding their Farm
Charlotte Plummer
Moving is never easy, least of all when you’re headed across the ocean to make a home in a new country. Meet Charlotte Plummer, balancing her veterinary career with farming in Morrinsville.
Becoming a Mother
When Eloise and her husband purchased virgin land near Whangārei Heads, they wanted to have a go at living in a yurt off-grid.
Robin’s South Island
One of New Zealand’s most notable documentary photographers, Robin Morrison spent seven months in 1979 documenting his travels to the tiny towns and villages across the South Island.
A Dream & Hard Graft
A way of life with a love of horses at its core, encompassed by a strong belief that horses can heal.
Small 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.
“Once the guys see me operating the machinery, they don’t question it” – a young woman moving mountains for a living
Olivia talks to Shepherdess about how she ended up in the earthmoving industry and the challenges and rewards of working in an almost all-male world.
Education 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.
Returning 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.
The 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.
How a young country-school teacher is using lessons learnt on the farm in her teaching
Teaching wasn’t always the plan for Eden Warrender, and nor was returning to her old primary school seventeen years after leaving.
Ngahuru Autumn 2024 Edition
Seventeenth Edition
Our beautiful Ngahuru Autumn 2024 Edition is out now!