Category: Farmers stories
Looking after growers is vital to a sustainable sector
Kiwifruit grower Steve Shirley hopes Farmstrong’s new Live Well, Grow Well book will encourage growers to look after their most important asset: themselves. The new…
Power Up for Calving season
Calving can be a busy and demanding time, even for the most experienced farmers. Preparing well, managing your workload and prioritising rest and recovery can…
Making Room to Talk
How one Gisborne farming group brought mental wellbeing into the open – and strengthened the support its members offer each other. When Gisborne farmer Sam…
Rugby trip gives Wairarapa farmers a chance to reset
After weeks of severe weather, a trip to Wellington gave a group of Wairarapa farmers and rural families something they badly needed – a change…
Post-harvest get-together ticks all the boxes
Te Puke kiwifruit industry contractor Stephen Crossan recently organised a day’s clay bird shooting to give local growers a break from the busyness of a…
Braving The Cold
Former dairy farmer Kevin Hopkins dropped in at Fieldays to share the benefits of ice water swimming for mental wellbeing. Kevin was born and bred…
Surprise win for farmer in gravel cycling race
South Otago sheep farmer Alastair Gray got the surprise of this life when his name was called out as the winner of a Farmstrong prize…
Settling In
Jayson and Gladys Chavez moved to New Zealand from the Philippines and work as contract milkers in Winton, Southland. They shared their insights on what…
Keeping On Track
Kaden van Gaalen farms on the Pahiatua Track and helps to run the Tararua Young Farmers Club. He shares how he navigates the ups and…
Farmstrong gets behind Spirited Women event
A team of four rural women pushed themselves to their limits mentally and physically, taking out first place in a newly created Farmstrong category of…
