Hyundai Country Calendar

Yarns from the Ridge

A couple raising their young family on a sheep and beef farm in the Marlborough Sounds branch into new activities including tourism and adding value to wool.

So Sweet

A family-owned business growing root vegetables in Southland's cool and fertile soils uses smart technology to help it transition into organic production.

Left in the Dust

An East Coast Station manager's first day on the job coincided with Cyclone Gabrielle and he's spent the time since, bringing the farm back to top production.

Kina Surprise

A crew of free-divers harvest from the waters around Rakiura / Stewart Island, with the shellfish going to the lucrative local market and to Australia.

Generation Strong

Five grown up children, with young families of their own, make the annual pilgrimage back to the family farm, inland from Wairoa, to help with the summer shear.

Training the Troops

A Southland farm owned by the Salvation Army trains teenagers in practical farming skills, helping to build the next generation of farm workers.

Garden For Good

An ex-lawyer creates a community of food producers to provide an affordable and resilient local food supply, to mend what she believes is a broken food system.

Honey Bunch

On the shores of Lake Taupō a beekeeping whānau works together to carve out a unique market for raw organic honey, for both food and health products.

In the Roots

Three brothers return home to supercharge the families' Nelson market garden, growing and selling fresh produce for wholesalers and their own thriving food store.

Butter Up

A Canterbury dairy farmer builds a booming glass-bottled milk business and expands to sell butter, while trialling new initiatives on the family's four farms.

Black Beauties

A South Canterbury family growing organic blackcurrants has created an international business for products they make from the superfood.

Digging In

A young Kāpiti couple runs a thriving business shearing and fencing on lifestyle blocks while also taming a run-down farm and saving up to buy one of their own.

Class Act

A former world-champion shearer mentors the next generation of shepherds, shearers and farmers, while managing a large Pāmu-owned King Country sheep and beef station.

Happy Hour

A busy farming family rallies their community to buy the local hotel, creating a bustling hub that unites locals and celebrates small-town spirit.

Wool Warrior

On a rugged northern Wairarapa farm, a woman continues her family tradition of growing top-quality wool and selling products made from it internationally.

In Safe Hands

A Southland woman shares stories of mental resilience and farm safety through workshops and children's books, inspired by the couple's life on their sheep and beef station.

On Giants' Shoulders

A Wairarapa family farming on an historic sheep station, honours the past, prepares for the future, and enjoys a shared love of the ocean with their community.

A Fruitful Move

An Auckland couple move to a Roxburgh orchard to make a new life growing apricots, cherries and apples, and turning the waste fruit into cider and liqueurs.

Every Opportunity

A Hawke's Bay horse breeder and trainer continues his family's respected racing legacy, while encouraging the next generation into the industry.

Pumpkin People

Inland from Whanganui, a resourceful couple grows pumpkins on their sheep and beef farm, selling the seeds for eating and processing them into flour and oil.

A Cut Above

Remote Roots