Down to Earth
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/
Episodes
February 26, 2024 • 46 mins
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 Hann...
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 Hann...
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November 2, 2023 • 51 mins
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 rep...
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October 5, 2023 • 50 mins
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 provi...
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 provi...
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September 14, 2023 • 52 mins
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...
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...
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August 27, 2023 • 48 mins
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 Hay...
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 Hay...
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August 6, 2023 • 70 mins
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 ...
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 ...
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July 16, 2023 • 50 mins
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 Aul...
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 Aul...
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December 1, 2022 • 61 mins
Spotting an opportunity to offer a sustainable alternative to single use plastic bags, Sophie and Sam Hurley developed their wool shopper, made from wool grown on their Hunterville property, Papanui Station.
Now, they have opened their flagship Honest Wolf store, in Hunterville, and are providing employment opportunities for locals, as well as retaining a close connection to their product and customers.
Honest Wolf Show notes
Honest W...
Now, they have opened their flagship Honest Wolf store, in Hunterville, and are providing employment opportunities for locals, as well as retaining a close connection to their product and customers.
Honest Wolf Show notes
Honest W...
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November 17, 2022 • 52 mins
From running personal training sessions on her front lawn while her young children slept, to a thriving online health and fitness platform, Kate Ivey is inspiring people to adopt a healthier lifestyle that is sustainable long-term.
Founder and trainer of DediKate, Kate Ivey Fitness, Kate runs her business from a farm near Twizel, where she lives with her husband Mark and their three children. DediKate now has about 1700 members acro...
Founder and trainer of DediKate, Kate Ivey Fitness, Kate runs her business from a farm near Twizel, where she lives with her husband Mark and their three children. DediKate now has about 1700 members acro...
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October 20, 2022 • 41 mins
Scott Jimmieson has realised his dream of becoming a farmer, and he’s keeping it local with his new online shop business, Local Food NZ, connecting farms with consumers.
The online farm shop and home delivery service in the Manawatu and Wellington regions offers free-range eggs from Scott’s farm and honey and coffee from other local producers.
The Local Food NZ business started in 2019 and their direct-to-consumer model was amplifie...
The online farm shop and home delivery service in the Manawatu and Wellington regions offers free-range eggs from Scott’s farm and honey and coffee from other local producers.
The Local Food NZ business started in 2019 and their direct-to-consumer model was amplifie...
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October 6, 2022 • 39 mins
Standing on the sideline watching her daughter play rugby in winter, Charlotte Bell thought she’d love to have a warm wool coat to wear. When she searched, she couldn’t find what she was after, so she decided to create her own.
Charlotte and her husband Hamish and their two girls Alexis (8) and Zoe (6) live on their sheep and beef farm at Cattle Creek in the Hakataramea Valley, South Canterbury.
Using Romney ewe lamb’s wool sourced f...
Charlotte and her husband Hamish and their two girls Alexis (8) and Zoe (6) live on their sheep and beef farm at Cattle Creek in the Hakataramea Valley, South Canterbury.
Using Romney ewe lamb’s wool sourced f...
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September 22, 2022 • 36 mins
Tapping into the potential of native New Zealand honeys, lifelong mates Edward Eaton and Wilbur Morrison are creating a buzz with their Buzz Club mead.
The 24-year-olds went from experimenting with different flavour profiles, brewing in their garage on the weekends, to launching a range of premium sparkling mead naturally brewed from native New Zealand honey.
https://thebuzzclub.co.nz/
https://www.instagram.com/buzzclubmead/
The 24-year-olds went from experimenting with different flavour profiles, brewing in their garage on the weekends, to launching a range of premium sparkling mead naturally brewed from native New Zealand honey.
https://thebuzzclub.co.nz/
https://www.instagram.com/buzzclubmead/
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September 8, 2022 • 61 mins
The Brothers Green is harnessing the potential of hemp with a range of value-added products, and they believe the crop could have the potential to tackle some of the environmental and agricultural issues faced by farmers in this carbon era.
Started five years ago, The Brothers Green is a vertically integrated hemp business that makes a variety of hemp products, including a functional food and a skincare range. A supplements line is ...
Started five years ago, The Brothers Green is a vertically integrated hemp business that makes a variety of hemp products, including a functional food and a skincare range. A supplements line is ...
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August 25, 2022 • 31 mins
The Mangamarie Sunflower Field, established by farmer, photographer and mum, turned sunflower entrepreneur extraordinaire, Abbe Hoare, is turning heads for all the right reasons.
She and her partner Emile de Greeuw, and their two girls Florence, 8, and Maeve, 2, have a 90-hectare farm at Mangamaire, just south of Pahiatua. Their ultimate dream is to one day buy a bigger farm that will sustain their family, but for now, they’re const...
She and her partner Emile de Greeuw, and their two girls Florence, 8, and Maeve, 2, have a 90-hectare farm at Mangamaire, just south of Pahiatua. Their ultimate dream is to one day buy a bigger farm that will sustain their family, but for now, they’re const...
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August 11, 2022 • 42 mins
In the second episode of From the Ground Up, host Rebecca Greaves talks with Amanda King founder of By The Horns.
They say you should never work with children or animals, but By the Horns photographer Amanda King has carved out a niche for herself doing exactly that.
The primary school teacher turned photographer has amassed a huge following on social media with her hallmark close-up images of magnificent bulls, as well as other farm...
They say you should never work with children or animals, but By the Horns photographer Amanda King has carved out a niche for herself doing exactly that.
The primary school teacher turned photographer has amassed a huge following on social media with her hallmark close-up images of magnificent bulls, as well as other farm...
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July 28, 2022 • 47 mins
Rebecca catches up with Delwyn Tuanui from The Chatham Island Food Co and learns about how he chased his dreams from the ground up.
Running around Melbourne in his early 20s with a chilly bin full of Chatham Island blue cod, knocking on the doors of the city’s top chefs, Delwyn Tuanui knew he had a special product.
Social media handles and and website links to check out Chatham Island Food Co for yourself:
- Instagram handle @chathami...
Running around Melbourne in his early 20s with a chilly bin full of Chatham Island blue cod, knocking on the doors of the city’s top chefs, Delwyn Tuanui knew he had a special product.
Social media handles and and website links to check out Chatham Island Food Co for yourself:
- Instagram handle @chathami...
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June 29, 2022 • 1 min
Welcome to 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 h...
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