Rural People and Issues : My Block - Inverviews
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Leonie and her husband Terry have twenty years’ experience living and working on lifestyle blocks
Tara and her family have found their perfect lifestyle on a small block looking out to the Hunua Ranges.
Northland couple Zena and Paul and their family are proof that you don’t need lots of money to live in paradise.
Seventy-two acres of hill country with poor soil quality, lots of rocky rhyolite outcrops...
Chillies are the spice of life for Swannanoa-based lifestyle block owner Louisa Eades.
Gavin Martin lived on a lifestyle farm in Hanmer before moving to his current farm at Okuku in North Canterbury three years ago.
We live on the Otago Peninsula, about 30 minutes out of Dunedin, and have been there six years now.
My Mother had always wanted to get back into the country to live, "before she was too old to enjoy it" she said.
Christine and Martin have lived on their 4 acre Makotuku lifestyle block for almost two years.
Tony and I are both in our second chance at life as a couple
Sandy and Terry Cooper were born in England, met in Singapore and now have a successful small farm in Upper Hutt.
Paul and Jen are regular contributors to our discussion group and own their first lifestyle block in the Wairarapa near Featherston.
When Sylvia and Wayne Dering decided to move out of town and into the country in Oxford...
Noel Sweetman is a lifestyler and a luthier whose customers are among the finest musicians in the world.