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For Alford Forest couple Richard Morris and celebrated artist, welder, and sculptor Hannah Kidd, a strong connection to New Zealand rural life has remained one true constant in both their lives.

The Todhunter family have doubled down on many generations of established success on Cleardale Station pushing on to farm even smarter, add value, and preserve the high value environment.

Driven by a passion for Merino wool and homegrown entrepreneurial approach, Simon and Kirsty Williamson have successfully diversified their farming operation at Glenbrook Station, north of Omarama.

The Everest family of Flemington Farm has received one of New Zealand’s highest honours for their outstanding dedication to creating a sustainable dairy farm that combines the needs of people, animals, economics, and the environment.

It’s been a long, hard, slow grind, but buoyed by customer feedback, Sheffield cropping farmers Marty and Georgina Skurr’s venture into homegrown stone ground flour is about to hit a whole new level with a new mill about to come on stream.

Peel Forest postie Matt Searles is a very busy man and delivering mail along NZ’s longest single road mail run is only one of his many daily tasks.

The Acland family is renowned for the energy and breadth of enterprises throughout Canterbury and beyond, and newly elected Ruralco director Kate Acland is bringing even more fizz to the family empire.

Amongst the casualties of North Canterbury’s devastating 2016 7.8 earthquake was a landmark woolshed that meant as much to the Waiau community as it did to its owners. The distinctive Highfield woolshed, owned by the Northcote family sits alongside State Highway 70, the Inland Road between Waiau and Kaikoura, just a few kilometres from the Waiau township. It is one of the oldest functioning woolsheds in New Zealand, with a history stretching back to the founding days of not only sheep farmin...

Firmly established as the largest red deer stud in the world, set amongst impressive park-like surroundings dominated by expansive avenues of English oaks, elms, beech and lime trees, Peel Forest Estate is not only testament to owner Yorkshireman Graham Carr’s long term commitment to the deer industry, but his passion for enhancing the environment and planting deciduous trees.

Words and image supplied by Lincoln University