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Creating a strong team culture an ongoing process, southern station managers say

Glenaray Station general manager Simon Lee was a speaker on the latest B+LNZ Central Otago Farming for Profit webinar series. Photo: Shawn McAvinue

Shawn McAvinueReporter

Wednesday, August 19, 2026

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Rural PeopleSeptember 6

Helping create female leaders in the rural sector aim of new exec director

Kristi Wright has a very short commute to work these days. She is the new executive director of the Fairlight Foundation, the female-only training institute based at Fairlight Station.

Sally Rae

Helping create female leaders in the rural sector aim of new exec director

Helping create female leaders in the rural sector aim of new exec director

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Rural PeopleAugust 26

Leaving a legacy: Why this Otago landowner is planting 14,000 kauri trees

Peter Parsons is back in Otago to create his field of dreams by growing New Zealand’s largest contiguous kauri forest.

Shawn McAvinue

Leaving a legacy: Why this Otago landowner is planting 14,000 kauri trees

Leaving a legacy: Why this Otago landowner is planting 14,000 kauri trees

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Rural PeopleAugust 9

Shooting for the stars; helping women build confidence aim of new venture

From self-pleasure to shotguns, it’s a finishing school with a difference. Forget cutlery etiquette and social graces, Kingston dynamo Laura Koot is helping women gain confidence through a programme targeted at rural women like herself.

Sally Rae

Shooting for the stars; helping women build confidence aim of new venture

Shooting for the stars; helping women build confidence aim of new venture

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North OtagoAugust 6

‘Hell of a two years’: From broken neck to rare blood cancer

“It's been one hell of a two years.” That is how Waianakarua woman Henrietta Purvis describes the period from August 8, 2024, when she broke her neck in a farm quad-bike crash to her recovery from a stem cell transplant a year later.

Sally Rae

‘Hell of a two years’: From broken neck to rare blood cancer

‘Hell of a two years’: From broken neck to rare blood cancer