Recent stories
We are pleased to bring you the latest from around the Taupō & Tūrangi communities. Reporting local, supporting local.
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Learning new skills as an adult
Grownups shouldn’t stop learning and that’s what the Festival of Adult Learning Ahurei Ākonga is all about.
100 years of solidarity
Rural Women New Zealand (RWNZ), originally the Women’s Division of the Farmers’ Union, was fouinded in 1925 by a group of 16 women who sought community and friendship, addressing the isolation and hardship faced by women in rural settings.
Taupō dairy factory in surprise sale
In a what is being described by one of the players as an opportunity that happened quickly, Mōkai-based dairy company Miraka is being sold to Open Country Dairy.
The fine art of fencing
For those who like to set boundaries, Taupō is hosting an event not to be missed next week.
Handing a farm over to the next generation
BFA and Craigs Investment Partners are hosting an event later this month to take a deep dive into the practical and emotional side of succession planning.
Sheep become ‘environmental do-gooders’
Tihoi dairy sheep farmer and Federated Farmers Rotorua-Taupō meat and wool chair Ruby Mulinder and husband Sean Nixon, a process engineer in the milk sector, have found a farming way of life that suits them.
New generation masters old skills
It may not be essential to becoming national youth ranch horse champions to live just down the road from the only arena in the country that stages monthly events, but it probably helps.
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