Towai

Jaycee Tipene-Thomas (Ngāti Hine, Ngāti Kahungunu) has family roots spanning generations in Towai, traditionally known as Touwai, in Te Tai Tokerau Northland.

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A Supreme Dream

Emma Tucker works for the law firm in her hometown, Te Waiharakeke Blenheim, that she always said she would.

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Helen & Alice

For the past few years, Helen and Alice have been on the road across Ōtākou Otago and Murihiku Southland reaching women in underserved areas and providing access to essential health services.

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Jessie Tombleson

Jessie Tombleson co-owner of Cameron Jewellery in Te Papaioea Palmerston North, grew up in her parents’ workshop and is committed to continuing their almost forty year legacy of manufacturing and selling the highest quality jewellery.

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Telling a Great Story

Kate Taylor knows how to spot a good story and tell a great yarn. As a journalist and writer, she’s been telling stories about rural life for over thirty years. Now a trustee on the New Zealand Farm Environment Trust, Kate accepted the FMG Rural Champion Award on behalf of the Trust at last year’s Beef + Lamb New Zealand Awards.

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Rolling out the Carpet

Anna Campbell leads the hoiho recovery programme as general manager of Te Tautiaki Hoiho Yellow-eyed Penguin Trust in Ōtepoti Dunedin.

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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.

Defining Her Why

Cheyenne, 29, is passionate about improving youth opportunities in the dairy industry and helping the sector take charge of its own development.

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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.

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Liv & 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.

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The 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.

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Gatherings

Letter from the Editor, Raumati Summer 2022/23.

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From 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.

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Takurua Winter 2025 Edition

Twenty-second Edition

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