Hyundai Country Calendar - Season 59

A farmer on a Banks Peninsula coastal property raises lambs for their on-farm auction, while his wife draws inspiration from their land for her paintings.

A Bay of Plenty whānau Māori runs an oyster farm, providing jobs for local rangatahi and delicious kaimoana for people passing through their coastal village.

A Taupō couple milks sheep on their first farm, on the shores of the lake, treading lightly on the land & protecting the water that enters the lake.

An award-winning South Auckland couple builds a team to embrace new farming and conservation practices to future-proof their dairy, sheep & beef operations.

After many years working away from the land, a couple return to take over the family farms where they were brought up and develop new outlets for their lambswool.

A former AgResearch staff member gets his own farm & puts what he's learned into practice by taking a scientific approach to how he runs it.

A Central Otago orchardist runs an export cherry business, built up from childhood paper-run savings and saves second-rate cherries from going to waste.

Two shepherding brothers on a vast East Coast hill country station go on to buy the property and draw the community together for their traditional on-farm sale.

A Gisborne family grows citrus & apples for the domestic & export markets, processing it in their new packhouse, and providing work for locals & travellers.

A third generation vet with a passion for everything equine runs a busy horse reproduction business with her husband on their Manawatū family farm.

Two young bee-keeping brothers in Manawatū have built up their honey business through hard graft, inventiveness and with timber milled from the family farm.

A Motueka family grows heritage varieties of apples, pears & plums on their organic orchard, selling the fruit and producing cider vinegars, juices & tonics.

An American family moves to Otago, creates a boutique dairy farm, grow flowers and sells all their produce direct to the local community.

A retired Canterbury engineer buys a rundown apple orchard and converts it to organics, running it with the help of his family who also run a flower business.

A manager takes a job on a farm newly bought by an Austrian business couple who know little about farming, but bring a new approach to how the farm is run.

A Rangitikei couple manages three big hill country sheep and beef farms while starting a new business making nutritious dog food for working dogs.

A Northland fisherman with a passion for the industry helps other fishers navigate changes to regulations and looks after their mental wellbeing.

A Southland family whose farm was saved by them growing swedes, and who now have built a thriving business from their humble roadside vegetable stall.

A North Canterbury couple produces free range eggs, beef cattle and sheep and have started their own butchery, all built up since they moved here from Germany.

Two Marlborough brothers make their mark on their diverse family businesses which include cherries, vineyards and making hay for horses.

Two American brothers enlist the help of a woman with farming expertise to create a farm & garden to provide food for their local community near Upper Hutt.

A Marlborough family grows grapes and makes new world wines using old world methods of planting and harvesting by the moon.

A couple with a love of the ocean, establishes a free-range egg farm overlooking the sea in Southland, to help realise their dreams of one day sailing away.

A Canterbury farming family grows crops to harvest the seeds, which are then used by gardeners and farmers all around the world to plant their own crops.

A Waikato family have been milking Jersey cows for nearly 100 years and now sell their own brand of organic milk and yogurt, as well as growing strawberries.

A sheep farming family builds a business salvaging broken vineyard posts & recycling them for farm fences, saving hundreds of thousands of posts from landfill.

A family farming sheep and cattle diversifies into the wellness market, turning their wool into felted exercise mats as part of their family succession plan.

A Marlborough couple re-invents the way oysters are farmed and exports their invention to the world.

An iwi-led community garden uses mātauranga Māori and permaculture principles to grow food for local people and connect them with the land.

A woman rounds up and rehomes wild horses, and also rescues, rehabilitates and races neglected miniature ponies from her Far North farm.

A Wairarapa family breeds their sheep flock to be wool-less, and adds a timber mill, a thriving rural café and a chocolate factory to their coastal station.

A Northland couple grows bananas and other tropical plants, finding the perfect varieties for the local climate, sharing their knowledge with others.

A resourceful couple raises cattle on family land in Samoa, employing locals & using the meat & other local produce at their guest house for tourists.

A Kāpiti family runs one of the few nurseries that supplies commercial vineyards with baby vines, as well as growing blackberries and running cattle.

A Southland family with a novel approach to dairying, keeps their cows in barns over winter, feeds them homegrown hay, and herds them using a phone app.

A tight-knit Canterbury family perfect their on-farm genetics to breed premium bulls and quality sheep that are sought after by buyers.

A hunter & predator-trapper shares his passion for conservation with communities & farmers, while his wife teaches young farmers at the local college.

A woman runs a flock of coloured sheep near Nelson, producing many shades for sale, and running craft workshops to inspire others with her love of wool.

Two young entrepreneurs take a run at rural life, focussing on connecting farmers and consumers & building a community around their egg farm.