Hyundai Country Calendar - Season 60

A West Otago family works with nature on their large organic farm and sells their beef and lamb direct to customers.

A couple combines their two passions of running the family dairy farm and breeding Clydesdale horses for showing, ploughing and harness work.

A Wairarapa family hosts visitors on the North Island's original farm walk and develops two neighbouring properties to support the next generation's farming future.

A love of farming discovered in prison has led a former inmate to become an award-winning manager of a Waikato dairy farm, while sharing his story with rangatahi.

A Timaru couple passionate about pigs, produce high-quality, free-range pork, for restaurants and supermarkets around the country.

A Southland woman shares her knowledge of kaimoana gathering and hunting with others wanting to connect with the whenua, while a global audience follows her on TikTok.

A young family at 90 Mile Beach is ensuring sustainably harvested and processed mussels continue to be a way of life for their Far North community.

A family with deep roots to their King Country property pursues their passion for breeding Arabian horses and hosting endurance rides on their sheep and beef farm.

A Far North family of beekeepers are hands-on with their business from working with nature, through to packing, marketing and selling honey to their local community.

A trapper and conservation worker helps farmers control predators on their land while revitalising the natïve whio population on the North Island's East Coast.

A Canterbury high country family runs a diverse farming operation, including deer, a breed of lamb that's renowned for its taste and texture, and a new agri-tourism venture.

A central Canterbury cropping farmer, keen to have more control over the grains he grows, has built his own stone mill and grinds specialty flour using traditional methods. 

A Southland family breeds strong wool sheep for top-quality yarn, with one of their daughters using the wool-clip to create jerseys that are sold through a farm-gate business.

A Manawatu family has robots milking their dairy cows, allowing each cow to choose when they're milked over 24-hours, and freeing up time for the farmers to do other things.

A Northland couple escapes life in the big smoke to produce commercial quantities of subtropical fruit, making a positive contribution to the challenges of a warming climate.

A Southland deer farmer has developed a natural, edible alternative to plastic for wrapping baleage, and hopes the innovation will fund his dream of owning a high-country farm.

A couple finds their sheep and beef farm isn't paying its way, so they switch to regenerative farming, focus on soil health, and their finances start to improve. 

A Bay of Plenty hapu develops flourishing kiwifruit orchards and dairy farms, returning its people to land previously confiscated by the Crown.

A Christchurch couple wanting a change after the earthquakes buy a hazelnut orchard and turn their hand to creating an artisan range from their nuts and some grown by others.

A Northland kumara growing couple bounces back after being hit hard by Cyclone Gabrielle and now employs thirty staff.

A Nelson vet farms a herd of Himalayan yaks along with his red deer, and juggles care of his own animals with his veterinary work around the district.

A new generation takes over an historic Rangitikei sheep station, employing both young workers and old hands, and creating a farm walk to add further income.

An olive grower takes an evidence-based approach to producing oil that is full of flavour and health benefits, focusing on enriching the soil on his Martinborough grove.

A Southland family diversifies into growing medicinal cannabis on their sheep farm, where they've bred stud animals for generations.

A self-taught cheese maker and lover of goats milks her own herd, making artisan cheeses and sharing her knowledge through tours and cheese making classes.

A Bay of Plenty family continues to lead the way, growing gold kiwifruit on their orchard with the use of cutting-edge technology and careful soil management.

A couple farms sheep and cattle on the exposed, steep hills west of Wellington, and sells their meat under their own label to restaurants and direct to customers.

A couple raise Perendales and coloured sheep on rugged cave country in the Waikato, creating knitting yarns from the wool, and bringing the next generation home to farm.

An award-winning farm manager and her wife are challenging stereotypes by running two large sheep and beef stations in Central Hawke's Bay.

A high country family keeps alive the traditions of its annual autumn cattle muster, as the next generation starts to put their mark on the remote Marlborough station.

A family realise their dream of owning a farm and now practice natural horsemanship and share their love of horses and the land with others on their Whanganui property.

A Taranaki dairy farming family diversifies into raising Gotland sheep, and growing paddocks of Mānuka to distil into oil for balms, gels and health products.

A couple swap the corporate life to become homesteaders on a small block of land in Horowhenua, growing mushrooms, making specialty food products and raising a few animals.

A farming couple pioneers a field-to-fork co-op producing premium beef and lamb with fewer food miles, and selling local meat to local people.

A Hawke's Bay woman runs a successful export business turning animal by-products into health supplements and beauty products, along with farming her own cattle.

A back-country Marlborough farm sells fine wool to Norsewear, a heritage clothing company with a dynamic new owner who sees a bright future for the fibre.

A northern Hawke's Bay station manager helps Ngāti Pāhauwera develop its land and people's future prospects through farming, orcharding and tourism.

A southern bushman turns woodlots into timber and wilding pines into biofuel, and hunts feral deer, turning them into restaurant fare.

A Waikato woman with a passion for genetics, runs a top Coopworth sheep stud on rugged coastal country, using scientific testing to produce hardy, parasite-tolerant sheep.

We revisit a North Canterbury school-leaver who followed her dream to go farming; Ten years on and married with two kids, the couple is thriving on the land.