Tag: time out
Don’t sweat what you can’t control
With 40 years’ experience in the kiwifruit industry, Sean Carnachan has some clear ideas about what it takes to last the distance. Sean Carnachan wears…
Live for the day
Simon Cook leads a busy life in the booming Kiwifruit industry. He owns a 5-hectare Kiwifruit orchard in the Bay of Plenty, runs a contracting…
Falling Off The Perch
Jason Halford’s thriving sharemilking career was brought to an abrupt halt by burn out. Now he’s sharing his story to help others avoid a similar…
Daily chats improve blueberry workers’ wellbeing
Getting together for regular breaks and chats throughout the day has had a noticeable impact on a group of blueberry workers’ wellbeing, says their boss.…
Footgolf, timeout and compliments help young farmer
When young Morrinsville farmer Jaiden Evans gets home from work each night, he kicks off his boots and thinks about a couple of things that…
Team effort
High country sheep and beef farmer Hamish Murray spent a year on a Nuffield scholarship studying businesses with high-performance team cultures. What he discovered was…
Getting the balance right
Amber Carpenter swapped the world of fashion for dairy farming. In 2017, she and her husband won Auckland Hauraki Share Farmer of the Year. Here’s…
Getting through dark times and bouncing back
Six years ago a motocross accident left dairy farmer Gary Sunshine-Tervit barely able to work and badly depressed. Now he’s Otago-Southland’s dairy farm manager of…
Geoff Spark chats with Darcy Bishop – ‘tools down’ text to take breaks off the farm.
Geoff Spark chats to Darcy Bishop an Oxford dairy farmer about a group of farmers who found a solution of ‘Tools Down’ texting to arrange…
Slowing down and family time key
If Pukekohe market gardener and CEO of The Fresh Grower Allan Fong could dish out one piece of advice to his younger self, it would…
