Hyundai Country Calendar

G A family uses a growing method called syntropics to produce all their own food on just one hectare of land, and their favourite crop is bananas.

G A thriving business based on mānuka oil, honey and tea provides an income for dozens of people in the tiny East Cape community, north of Gisborne.

G We meet a 26-year-old shearer who owns her own gang, and sees herself and her fellow shearers as pro-athletes. The Marlborough woman mentors young shearers and competes with them at the famed Golden Shears.

G A husband and wife run a Central Otago 'fruit salad' orchard growing a huge variety of heritage berries, stone fruit and pip fruit, including hard-to-find mulberries.

G After eight months of training, a Central Otago shearer attempts a world record and uses the event to raise awareness about teen suicide after the loss of his 16-year-old daughter.

G Faced with falling profits, the owner of a big Central Otago station makes a radical move into regenerative agriculture and finds the profits soon flow.

G A couple start their own honey business to achieve a better work/life balance for their young family and find the sacrifices they've had to make have been worthwhile.

G Sixth generation Wairarapa farmers make it big in the international market but remain committed to the health of the soil, water, crops and animals at home.

G The country's first commercial coffee grower found the right bean for New Zealand conditions on a hunch, and his Northland coffee plantation is now on the verge of expansion.

G A Northland family adds hydroponically grown berries to their kiwifruit orchard, giving themselves and their staff a secure future they can bank on, supplying to Kiwis and the world!