First Hand - Paradise Lost

When you're living on the land and working with the land you get to know it, and when you leave, it's like leaving a part of you, or leaving a close friend, but I think our family bond is strong enough to carry us through this.

– Helen Hallgarth, on selling their family farm

...there's a little part of me that's really excited about whatever happens next. A challenge, there's something else out there waiting to be done...

– Helen Hallgarth's optimism shines through

It's a bit scary in some ways, the insecurity of things. This is very secure — our own home and the farm and one thing and another. No point in looking back over it, the last 10 or 12 years. You've got to look forward...

– Hawke's Bay farmer Arthur Hallgarth on selling the family farm