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A massive farm gives its profits away every year. The employees and the local Hawkes Bay community love the concept and the unique story of two pioneering sisters behind it.
A Hawkes Bay farmer throws his property open so local school-children can learn about the environment and one pupil discovers a rare and ancient worm.
A young family live life at high pace and with maximum laughter on their Gisborne stud farm. Sam Hain says every day alive is a blessing so he makes the most of it.
A couple start a new venture milking goats and making organic cheese after they get bored in their retirement. Theyre working harder than ever before, but they love their new role.
When a shearing family are turned down for a bank loan, they help one another to lease, then buy, a farm each. One couple has gone on to win a prestigious Maori farming trophy.
When a master horseman becomes a solo father, he has to re-think his career. He feels his added responsibilities have made starting wild horses too dangerous.
When Northland bee-keeper Blanche Murray started the Kai Ora Honey business a few years back, she had no idea it would soon turn into a global concern.
A 76-year-old ex-possum trapper still runs his remote sheep and beef farm with help from his grandkids. He and his wife have lived in the area for 50 years, raising six children.
A Hawke's Bay fisherman has re-invented the fishing net, to fish more sustainably. His success fishing with his steel cage innovation has fisheries staff keen to conduct trials.
In the heart of dairy country, a Waikato farmer is bucking the trend by raising sheep and beef cattle. He is also keen to leave greener pastures for his young family's future.
Hawkes Bay orchardist Mark Ericksen says picking the right apple to grow is just like backing race horses – you want to pick winners.
Two generations of Chatham Islanders make a living from cray-fishing, farming and showing tourists around the islands they're grown to love.
A 17-year-old woman leaves school and opts to follow her dream to go farming. Louisa says everyone was surprised at first, but they now support her choice.
A husband and wife farm with a love for each other and of the land. She's a city girl turned farmer, and together they breed horses, train working dogs and ride endurance.
On Great Barrier Island, a market gardening couple grow top-quality heritage fruit and veges using organic methods. They've had to be inventive and hard-working to survive.
A couple expand their free range pig farm in Wairarapa with the help of Hong Kong backers, turning heritage breeds into pork much sought-after by chefs.
What sort of farmer invites 10,000 people to a three-day party at their place every New Year?
Out the Back: A couple uses traditional draught horses for all their farm tasks on a Canterbury high country station. The horses pull the supply wagon for the team working the annual autumn muster.
As a young scientist, John Young began investigating if mussels could be farmed and 40 years later he's still on the water, leading New Zealand's second-biggest mussel farming company.
An immigrant family perfects the art of growing feijoas and capsicums using natural biological methods. They see feijoas as New Zealand's next big horticulture export success story.
Actor Sam Neill has immersed himself in a second career, growing grapes and making wine in Central Otago. He believes his pinot noir will create a longer-lasting legacy than his films.
A family welcomes tourists and walkers to their spectacular and remote inland Gisborne farm. They breed horses to work the steep terrain and also compete at riding events.
A family work the wild waters around Stewart Island, chasing paua, kina and blue cod. They also run a surf school in Riverton, bringing surfing back to Southland.
Two women leave the city to grow peonies, discover the roots have properties that ease their children's skin problems, so they start a new venture selling peony soaps and skin balms.
A family in the Canterbury high country prepare for their annual deer auction, while entertaining trophy hunters from the USA, and being part of a traveling theatre troupe.
Two brothers find success chasing crayfish off the wild Marlborough coast. They export them live, providing jobs for their small community, as well as farming beef and growing grapes
Maniototo Merino: A karate black belt's love of Japanese culture helps him secure a lucrative contract to supply his Central Otago ultra-fine merino wool to Tokyo suit manufacturers.
A city couple move to rural Kaikoura, learn to farm goats and make their own award-winning cheese, which they sell to restaurants and from their own shop.
A Kawhia farmer hand-rears the offspring of sheep that give birth to as many as six lambs each. She also writes and records country music songs and traps possums.
A sharemilking couple work with Maori landowners to ensure their historic land is farmed sustainably. They send their milk to New Zealand's only Maori-owned dairying company.
A conservationist leads teams of international student volunteers who are restoring one of New Zealand's most significant privately-owned wetlands south of Dunedin.
A couple moves from their island home in the Marlborough Sounds to take over managing a massive sheep station in the MacKenzie Country owned by a family of artists.
Two women farm a leased property in the foothills of the Ruahine Range, where they raise sheep and train working dogs, including animals given up by other farmers as useless.
When their parents become too ill to work, the teenagers from a family of eight children take over running their North Otago orchard, to avoid having to sell the land.
A couple turn their rough swampy land into the perfect place to run free-range heritage breed pigs, then start an on-farm butchery and kitchen, using traditional English recipes.
A father and daughter spend years working to create a successful truffle industry in North Canterbury and their dogs are finding increasing amounts of valuable black gold.
The third generation on a North Otago high country station follow in their forebears' footsteps and continue the farm's tradition of innovation.
A West Coast woman who runs a dairy farm with a big emphasis on family life brings the same values to the team on the Landcorp farms that she also manages.
