Hyundai Country Calendar

G Spring Fever: A Rangitikei family that's farmed sheep and cattle on the same land for 154 years, has moved with the times while keeping alive traditional values and their love of farming.

G Milk Made: A woman manages one of the country's largest and most innovative sheep dairy operations on the shores of Lake Taupo. The former possum trapper employs her husband to help.

G Organic Growth: A Hawke's Bay couple takes on seven thousand free range chooks to add to their sheep, cattle and pigs at their organic farm, despite having no formal agricultural training.

G Pie in the Sky: A Waikato couple produces and sells handcrafted pies, gourmet steaks and craft beer, after falling in love with raising cattle, following the liquidation of their computer business.

G Caring for the Kaipara: A Northland couple have won awards for the way they care for their farm, their livestock and the Kaipara Harbour which borders their property and provides food and recreation.

G Set in Stone: A sixth generation family balance the history and tradition of more than 160 years, with new technology and modern methods on their north Canterbury coastal sheep, beef and deer farm.

G Turn of the Tide: A fisherman returns home to Northland's Hokianga Harbour to work the tides, catching flounder from a small dory that was hand-built by his father.

G At the Cape: The sixth generation of a Hawke's Bay family add tourism to their income, with shearing demonstrations and glamping to ensure a farming future for the next generation.

G Survival of the Fittest: A family forestry business rises to the challenge of finding staff to do the hard work needed to meet the Government's plan to plant a billion trees in the next 10 years.

G Manuka Man: A beekeeper plants manuka trees so he can harvest top-quality honey from his bush blocks near Gisborne to supplement the income from his citrus orchard.