The Country - Harvest edition
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Today on The Country, Jamie Mackay spoke to Sank Macfarlane, who has started harvesting at New Zealand s largest commercial medical cannabis crop on his Winterborn farm on the coast of Kēkerengū.
On with the show:
Pita Alexander:
The Christchurch farm accountant went back in time to 1991 to compare the fortunes of sheep and beef farmers in the intervening 30 years. Plus, we looked at the relative returns from dairy, horticulture, forestry and sheep/beef.
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Sank McFarlane:
We talked to one of the brothers (the other, Winston, was a Team NZ grinder in 2003 and 2007) about the harvest of New Zealand s biggest medical cannabis crop (10 hectares) in Kēkerengu, halfway between Kaikōura and Blenheim.
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The Store is quiet in the months after the Kaikōura earthquake, pictured in 2017, but has bounced back well. Macfarlane and his partner took over in 2014, refurbishing the interior into a more modern type of rustic, with vaulted wooden ceilings, a double-sided fireplace and long seafront deck. The Store was now a fully licenced waterfront restaurant and functions venue, on State Highway 1, one of the country’s busiest tourist routes. Colliers sales director Andy Poswillo said the 10 hectare property included a campground with bathroom and toilet block, a two-bedroom apartment for the owner or staff and a separate office.