FROM THE RIDGE: How to make $700 a day from trees
8 July 2019
Let us talk about planting trees.
It is, after all, the season for doing just that.
FROM THE RIDGE ARCHIVES
FROM THE RIDGE: Chewing out the vegetarian preachers
2 July 2019
I was a vegan myself once.
It was in India 40 years ago in a small village where it seemed everyone was vegan, going by the menus in the cafes.
But it was only for one day.
FROM THE RIDGE: Bank behaviour inquiry needed
24 June 2019
HYPOCRISY: The practice of claiming to have higher standards or more noble beliefs than is the case.
Jane will occasionally cruelly label me a hypocrite.
FROM THE RIDGE: Odd season works out well for weather
17 June 2019
It has certainly been an odd season but not one I’m complaining about.
I wean, draft lambs off to the works, drench, vaccinate, dag, shear, kill bulls and sell 120 rams from late November until Christmas.
FROM THE RIDGE: A taxing job causes incompetence
10 June 2019
More than 20 years ago I wrote a column quietly taking the proverbial out of Inland Revenue.
It seemed like a good idea at the time.
FROM THE RIDGE: Aging farmer’s brain catching up with his body
4 June 2019
I write this on the eve of my 60th birthday.
I haven’t made a big deal of any other significant birthdays, other than a boozy 21st when down at Lincoln.
FROM THE RIDGE: Maybe I was weird but I was right
27 May 2019
I don't recall being a weird kid but my family thought I was and let me know it.
Just because I watched Star Trek, Dr Who and Lost in Space.
FROM THE RIDGE: Farmers won’t forget Jones’s outburst
20 May 2019
So now Shane Jones has decided to put the boot into farmers.
I thought he was touting and self-styling himself as the champion of the regions.
FROM THE RIDGE: What Steve and Jane did on their holidays
6 May 2019
I doubt if a rural column has ever been written in Milford Sound, so this is likely a first.
I wouldn’t want this to read like what Steve and Jane did on their holiday but there is no way around it.
FROM THE RIDGE: Winning couple an example for city folk
29 April 2019
Another week, another fielday.
But rest assured I do work reasonably hard when on the farm.
Last week’s event was the field day on the supreme award winner’s property for the East Coast region of the Ballance Farm Environment Awards.
