Applications from all New Zealand will be celebrated at the 20th ceremony dinner, in Lawrence in May next year.
Keeping a farm in a family across generations, through challenging times for a century or more, was an impressive achievement worthy of recognition and Century Farms set out to capture and preserve this history which might otherwise be lost.
Families were invited to compile and send in the story of their farm’s history, with copies of photographs and documents for the awards committee to permanently archive at the Alexander Turnbull Library in Wellington and each year a new booklet was produced to summarise and celebrate the families.
"Century Farms has collected more than 650 stories since it began 2005," Century Farms chairman Edward Fitzgerald said.
"Those stories of resilience, integrity and innovation are worth preserving and re-telling, not just from a farming perspective but for our cultural and social perspective as well."
