Down to Earth

NZ Farm Life Media
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Welcome to Down to Earth, (previously From the Ground Up) a podcast brought to you by Young Country. This is a podcast for the go getters, the big dreamers, the innovators of the primary sector. I’m your host Rebecca Greaves, and we’re taking a closer look at people in the primary industries who have dared to think big, push the limits and give it a go in business. We’ll be asking them what the catalyst was to take the plunge and make a change. We find out how they got to where they are now, what they’ve learned along the way, and what their advice is to other aspiring agri-innovators. So, settle in and listen up as we serve you a healthy dose of inspiration, motivation, and maybe even challenge your thinking a little. https://youngcountry.co.nz/podcasts/

  1. S2, E8 Nicola Wylie - Lora & Flok

    25/08/2024

    S2, E8 Nicola Wylie - Lora & Flok

    Getting a good night’s sleep is high on the priority list for many people, and superior bedding made with strong wool from their Southland farm is a new venture for Nicola and Tom Wylie. A range of bedding essentials, pillows and duvets, are being marketed and sold online as Lora & Flok. Website: www.loraandflok.co.nz Facebook: lora & flok (2) Facebook Instagram: @loraandflok Lora & Flok (@loraandflok) • Instagram photos and videos

    50 min
  2. S2, E7 Hannah Miller - A Lady Butcher

    26/02/2024

    S2, E7 Hannah Miller - A Lady Butcher

    Hannah Miller is A Lady Butcher and her passion is to create purposeful meats. Hannah’s jam is making traditional charcuterie, the art of preserving meat, with local New Zealand ingredients. She’s gaining a fan following for her range of premium dried and cured meats from local, ethically-raised animals. She and her husband also have a restaurant and brewery, Churly’s, in Auckland. At Churly’s they do whole carcase butchery, and Hannah is committed to ensuring every cut has a place, adopting a nose to tail philosophy. The butchery itself is tucked inside the restaurant. A Lady Butcher show notes Website: www.aladybutcher.co.nz Facebook: A Lady Butcher Facebook Instagram: @aladybutcher A Lady Butcher (@aladybutcher) | Instagram

    47 min
  3. S2, E6 Greg and Dansy Coppell - Repost

    02/11/2023

    S2, E6 Greg and Dansy Coppell - Repost

    When Greg and Dansy Coppell purchased their sheep and beef farm near Nelson they needed to do 30km of fencing on a shoestring budget – recycled vineyard posts were the ideal solution. Soon, neighbouring farmers were asking how they could get their hands on the cheap but perfectly functional posts, and Repost was born. Repost takes what was previously a waste product, posts ripped out of vineyards at harvest and left in piles, and repurposes them as a key on-farm input, at a fraction of the cost of a new post. A win for your back pocket, and a win for the environment. Website: Repost || Recycled and Repurposed Fence Posts www.repost.co.nzFacebook: Repost Fence Posts @repostnz Repost Fence Posts | FacebookInstagram: @repostnz Repost (@repostnz) | Instagram

    51 min
  4. S2, E5 Cam Ravenwood - Fernglen Farm

    05/10/2023

    S2, E5 Cam Ravenwood - Fernglen Farm

    Sheep milking is providing the perfect value add, and creating opportunities for the whole Ravenwood family, at Wairarapa’s Fernglen Farm. Sheep tick all the boxes for this entrepreneurial family, from a nutrition, sustainability and environmental perspective.The picturesque coastal farm is home to 1300 milking ewes, which are milked once a day at a purpose-built facility on the property, near Riversdale beach. The milk, which provides a nutritious alternative to cow’s milk, is turned into a number of products, including flavoured milk and yoghurt.Cam Ravenwood has a passion for nutrition, especially its role in sports and muscle recovery, and became interested in sheep milking after seeing a newspaper cutting in 2015, his last year at high school. Fernglen Farm Website: www.fernglenfarm.co.nz Facebook: Fernglen Farm Fernglen Farm | Facebook Instagram: @fernglenfarm Fernglen Farm (@fernglenfarm) | Instagram

    51 min
  5. S2, E4 Mark Ferguson - NextGen Agri

    14/09/2023

    S2, E4 Mark Ferguson - NextGen Agri

    Genetics play a vital role in our industry and Mark Ferguson is leading a team at neXtgen Agri that aims to bring genes to life. A self-confessed sheep tragic, originally from across the ditch, Mark first came to New Zealand almost a decade ago after successfully pitching for a merino genetics review for the New Zealand Merino Company. He says it was a pivotal moment writing the application, as it led to him moving to New Zealand to run the production science component of a Primary Growth Partnership for the company. At neXtgen Agri, the focus is on the pastoral livestock industries. It is a consulting and innovation business, predominantly genetics consulting, helping sheep and beef breeders breed and buy the best animals. Website: www.nextgenagri.com Facebook: NeXtgen Agri Ltd | Facebook Instagram: @nextgenagri NeXtgen Agri (@nextgenagri) | Instagram Head Shepherd podcast: Head Shepherd

    52 min
  6. S2, E3 Elizabeth Hayes - Nest Tree Houses

    27/08/2023

    S2, E3 Elizabeth Hayes - Nest Tree Houses

    A tree house is part of the quintessential Kiwi kid upbringing, and now you can relive your childhood in style, thanks to Nest Tree House luxury treetop accommodation. Found in the Hakataramea Valley on Million Springs Farm, the home of Andy and Elizabeth Hayes and their three children Charlie, 12, Ayla, 10 and Hugo, 8, the treetop accommodation injects a touch of playful adventure into a luxury getaway. The farm has been in the Hayes family for six generations and was a sheep and beef farm, more recently converting to a 2000-cow dairy farming operation in 2009 when Andy and Liz took over the farm. Website: www.nesttreehouses.com Instagram: @nest.tree.houses Facebook: Nest Tree Houses Nest Tree Houses | Hakataramea | Facebook Learn more about Down to Earth at: https://youngcountry.co.nz/podcasts/#downtoearth

    48 min
  7. S2, E2 Kate and Prue - Foxtrot Home

    06/08/2023

    S2, E2 Kate and Prue - Foxtrot Home

    Website: www.foxtrothome.co.nz Facebook: Foxtrot Home Foxtrot Home | Facebook Instagram: @foxtrot_at_home Beautiful French Linen & NZ Wool (@foxtrot_at_home) • Instagram photos and videos There’s nothing quite like climbing into a crisp, freshly made bed. Linen loving sisters, Kate Cullwick and Prue Watson, hit on a winner with their online homeware business, Foxtrot Home, which has gained a huge fan following. Having decided they were keen to launch a business together, they knew two things for certain – it had to be homewares (a shared love) and online, due to their locations. With Prue living in Auckland for her corporate marketing job and stay-at-home mum Kate living in Central Hawke’s Bay on a sheep and beef farm, they knew the business needed to fit around their already busy lives.

    1h 10m
  8. S2, Ep 1 Rob Auld - Auld Farm Distillery

    16/07/2023

    S2, Ep 1 Rob Auld - Auld Farm Distillery

    Website: www.aulddistillery.co.nz Facebook: Auld Distillery Auld Distillery | Scotts Gap | Facebook Instagram: @aulddistillery Auld Distillery (@aulddistillery) • Instagram photos and videos A seed-to-sip philosophy is the approach at Auld Farm Distillery, where the Auld family harvest the grain from their Southland farm and take a fresh new approach to bottling the essence of their land, their history and their story. Rob and Toni Auld combine the grain from their paddocks and pure water from their own spring in an onsite distillery, resulting is a stellar range of whisky, gin and other spirits for the discerning punter.The site of Auld Farm Distillery has been growing grain since 1883. Three generations of family – all named Robert – have worked the land in this isolated corner of New Zealand, right at the bottom of the world.Rob has always enjoyed a tipple of whisky and with a push from a Rabobank course, he created a business plan to diversify the family business and ensure opportunity for all three of the couple’s sons, in the form of an on-farm distillery.

    50 min
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About

Welcome to Down to Earth, (previously From the Ground Up) a podcast brought to you by Young Country. This is a podcast for the go getters, the big dreamers, the innovators of the primary sector. I’m your host Rebecca Greaves, and we’re taking a closer look at people in the primary industries who have dared to think big, push the limits and give it a go in business. We’ll be asking them what the catalyst was to take the plunge and make a change. We find out how they got to where they are now, what they’ve learned along the way, and what their advice is to other aspiring agri-innovators. So, settle in and listen up as we serve you a healthy dose of inspiration, motivation, and maybe even challenge your thinking a little. https://youngcountry.co.nz/podcasts/

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  • Creator
    NZ Farm Life Media
  • Years Active
    2022 - 2024
  • Episodes
    19
  • Rating
    Clean
  • Copyright
    © Copyright NZ Farm Life Media
  • Show Website
    Down to Earth