9

"New calves sucking on your fingers, pet lamb for school competition, eeling."
@bellbirdandtui

"Making waterslides down hills in paddocks and just spending all day out making our own fun."
@jesskhood

"Climbing trees, riding bikes and exploring. Swimming in the lake! Animals outside the house."
@hilarytissingh

"I'm originally a farm girl from the Southern US, so slightly different style of farming than here. I miss seeing my grandparents out in the field every day during summer riding the tractor or picking bushels of peas, corn, tomatoes, and watermelons. The smell of tomato plants still reminds me of my grandfather's hugs."
@alainasims

"Sitting with my brother on top of a big load of haybales, ducking power lines on our way back from the field. Helping with milking and being so proud when I was old enough to do it by myself."
@sarasheepgirl

"Riding out with Dad on my pony to muster or shift stock with him."
@_sageharding

"The freedom to do whatever our growing minds came up with..."
@meand.minex2

"Grandad teaching me how to drive around the farm in an old Datsun single cab ute, column change auto and put a block of wood underneath the accelerator when feeding out."
@echovalleynz

"Playing in the woolshed and watching the swallows go back and forth to their nests."
@haubotanicals

 

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