Hyundai Country Calendar

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.