On the cusp of burn out, and coping with bereavement, writer and producer Nicola Harvey and her husband Pat, left behind their lives in Sydney to become cattle farmers in the central North Island.
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What was at first an exciting new challenge and a chance to 'slow down', quickly become a first hand lesson in the messy and complicated reality of modern farming.
At the same time they found themselves in the middle of heated arguments, and growing divisions, about farming's future and its role in climate change. Nicola's written a book about her experience, half biographical, half investigation into modern agriculture, called Farm: The Making of a Climate Activist.
