A Southland New Zealand dairy farmer has invested $200,000 over the last 10 years in planting and fencing around a river and creeks on his property – an outcome of a dream he had back in his native Zimbabwe.
Edwin Mabonga, who together with his wife Fungai milk 850 cows on a 270ha farm bordering the Aparima River at Otautau near Invercargill, used to spend time in Zimbabwe reading books about New Zealand.
“It was always a big goal of mine to come to New Zealand because I saw it as being the world benchmark for dairy farming,” he says. “We used to read books to learn as much as we could and eventually decided to move to find out what the big deal was.”
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The Country s Best Bits 2020: Feel good favourites
10 Jan, 2021 04:00 PM
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Best friends forever - Charles the dog and Graham the lamb. Photo / Gareth Richards
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Last year was pretty hectic so it s not surprising that some stories slipped through the cracks of the Best Bits 2020 list.
Although there were some gems that may not have made it to the most read stories of the year, they did manage to catch the eye of The Country s online producer. Feel good was the inadvertent theme of this year s list, with animal friendships and farmer hobbies featuring - as well as a runaway sheep, a running dairy farm worker and a story that was actually about a gem.