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The Kiwi Farmers Guide to Life

Tim Fulton's book The Kiwi Farmers Guide to Life: Tales from the Rural Heartland includes 25 stories of life on the land, from farmers and farming families, to agri-business entrepreneurs and scientists.

Bindra family: Gurnek, Sundeep, Nishaan, Sahiba and Arvaan.

Gurnek's father Mohan, mother Jaspal and Gurnek milking the Friesian herd in the home cow shed in summer.

Basanta Singh, Gurnek's great-grandfather, ploughing with his horses in Pukekohe in the 1940s.

Caythorpe homestead near Blenheim. Photo: Bishell Family

Caythorpe Family Estate produces a range of wines. Photo: Bishell Family

Mike Murphy grapples with another sheep in a portable shearing unit in Wyoming. Photo/ Mike Murphy

Tracey Topp makes Cosy Toes, an online range of children's merino wool socks and other apparel in Hurunui. Photo: Tracey Topp

Loshni Manikam champions support for rural women, running a Facebook group Thriving Farming Women.

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