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00:00The best of New Zealand's rural heartland, Hyundai Country Calendar.
00:15We have a saying, mohaka harara, being hard ass.
00:23That's awesome, that's awesome working for our people on our land.
00:30We know what good looks like, and we want to get back to that position.
00:35Beautiful.
00:54Springtime on Rāwhiti Station on the Napier to Wairoa Highway
00:58in Northern Hawke's Bay.
01:03Farm manager Jordan Biddle has been on this 600 hectare station
01:07at Raupunga for seven years,
01:09with his partner Aroha and their four children.
01:14The Raupunga community is somewhere where I grew up, born and bred.
01:18Pretty passionate about our small community.
01:20You know, we think it's a good idea to try and grow our kids up here
01:26and let them experience some of the stuff that we experienced growing up.
01:34Rāwhiti Station was given back to the iwi as part of the Nāti Pāhuwera Treaty Settlement in 2012.
01:40It's awesome. It's awesome to be able to have this opportunity at home,
01:44where I was brought up, working for our people, on our land.
01:50It's something that I'm very grateful for.
01:52I haven't had to travel very far to find an opportunity,
01:56as he has been a number right in our backyard.
02:02The last couple of seasons we have been focusing on trading for sheep and beef,
02:06but in the meantime, our focus is just based around lambs.
02:20Visiting today is stock agent Ken Simpson,
02:22who is key to Jordan's farming strategy.
02:26You're getting your spring growth now, Jordan.
02:28Yeah. It's starting to come.
02:30Yeah, well, soil temperatures are starting to rise.
02:32All right, this is that mob of 42 from Hastings.
02:412017, Jordan took over. I think he was only 22 at the time.
02:45And I called in and saw him and made myself available to do business,
02:48and we struck a pretty good accord.
02:51For his age, he's very innovative and forward-thinking,
02:54and he's changed a lot of things on this place from when I first came here.
02:58He's changed things completely round to doing mainly beef and sheep-lamb trading,
03:05and it's worked really well.
03:09It's Jordan's management of his sheep that Ken believes has set him apart.
03:14Ready to go?
03:15What do you reckon? All good?
03:17Yep.
03:18You can run around these sheep and pull them in for us.
03:20As soon as we sell the lambs, like the old-season lambs,
03:24we buy in Scandan lamb ewes in about August.
03:28They're right on the drop, and he lambs them.
03:32It's happening now.
03:34And he'll fatten them all the way through,
03:36wean and fatten and finish them in November, December,
03:40and we buy the trade lambs again.
03:42Get rid of all the ewes, all the lambs gone,
03:45and then we do it again.
03:45Sell all the lambs, and then we buy the ewes.
03:50You've got to do a bit of extra work with lamb and ewes and all that sort of stuff,
03:54but it suits this farm,
03:56and he puts the hard yards in working it, and it works.
04:00I wasn't sure at the start, but I'm pretty convinced now.
04:05With Ken handy, Jordan's wrangled him to help with the last of the docking,
04:10along with local farmers Jack Delaney and Andrew Kennett.
04:15We are docking the last of our triplets.
04:17We've got one more mob left to do for the season, and that'll be us.
04:23We've got a couple of guys who'll have a mineral drench going into these lambs,
04:27one on the iron,
04:29and one on the station mark, and a couple of fellas lifting.
04:35Jordan's son, Martini, has also been roped in to help.
04:38Oh, it's kind of hard, but it seems like the job is...
04:45Being a smaller community, we obviously try and help out each other in any way we can,
04:51and with rugby and anything to do with farming.
04:56And most of the time, it's mostly for love than getting paid for it.
05:01I'd have to rate these lambs, they're pretty good, actually.
05:09Oh, that was good.
05:10Good to get that job out of the way.
05:12Docking's an exciting time of the year.
05:14We know once the lambs are on the ground, spring is in the year,
05:17grass is starting to grow,
05:19and normally the flowers are starting to bloom.
05:21That's when the kinners come on.
05:22That's the time of the year that we enjoy.
05:24All good, Jordan, how are you?
05:30Yeah, all good.
05:31How's everything going?
05:32Yeah, good, good.
05:33Just got our docking out of the way, what's been happening down at the orchard.
05:35Jordan is a former Ahu Whenua Young Farmer of the Year winner,
05:39and he also works closely with the manager of the Ngāti Pāhawera Development Trust's orchards,
05:44Paulie Douglas.
05:46Right, these are the discs here.
05:47Hopefully they're fit for the job.
05:51Yeah, no, they look good.
05:52They look like they'll do the trick.
05:54The Mautaua Orchard is 15 kilometres down the road.
06:01It was previously a 60 hectare olive orchard.
06:04The Trust bought it and is converting half of it into apples.
06:09Too much.
06:09Good to see you guys.
06:11Joining Paulie and Jordan are Tom Keefe and Aidan Collins from the Trust's commercial arm.
06:18Paulie, stage three, stage four.
06:20This is what we've got to develop.
06:21Yeah, we're trying to push on as much as we can this year, but I think we're going to run out of time before summer hits.
06:27This will be a very good growing area.
06:32The soils have never had apples growing on them before, so that lends itself to being very good for development.
06:39We know that olives grow here really well, it's in an area that will probably lead to early development, so we are looking at planting early Royal Gala varieties to get the early market premiums.
06:52We've got an established orchard, Pakuratahi, which is closer to Napier, so about 70 kilometres away from here.
07:00One of the rationale about moving our Hort Centre back to Raupunga was to create opportunity for our people, create meaningful employment, to create pathways so we can put more spark back into our rohe.
07:18When I was growing up in Raupunga, we used to have a movie theatre, two shops, a fish and chips shop, a police station, a video store, and a pub just down the road in Mohaka.
07:30Now we've got one shop, so we know what good looks like, and we want to get back to that position.
07:37Native bush and forestry blocks board a Raupunga station in Northern Hawke's Bay, and they provide a source of both work and kai for the whanau here.
07:59Right, who's falling off first?
08:02Hopefully not me.
08:03We're just going to make our way out and hunt all this right-hand side of the road down here, make our way down to the river and back around, hopefully we get some animals there.
08:13All good?
08:14Yep.
08:17Speed it up.
08:18Farm manager Jordan Biddle is taking some local youngsters on a pig hunt.
08:25You know, this is definitely part of living in the rural communities, you know.
08:30A lot of the whanau have been getting into horses around the area, and it's good.
08:35It's awesome for the kids to connect with the animal and grow their learning for the future, hopefully.
08:40Keeping the forest pest-free has been a priority for Ngāti Pāhuwera, which has around 13,500 hectares of forestry in its portfolio.
08:59James Lewis carries out pest management for the iwi with son Hemi.
09:08Look good.
09:09She's all clean.
09:10I subcontracted with our iwi, and I think the good thing about it is this is our whenua.
09:20There's been a few contracts and businesses started up.
09:24It's started us.
09:25You know, we're quite humbled to get the job.
09:27The pair and their staff have also led software development to help keep on top of the huge task.
09:40Over the eight years we've gathered all the data, and we know we can pinpoint where the pockets are.
09:46And it's easier to teach new workers, just by going off their GPS, and they can check how many possums they caught, where they caught them.
09:58We'll get it by the end of the day.
10:00I think that the main thing is hearing the birds, and then making sure our cupboards are clean from TB, eh, for our mokopona, and whoever comes in and hunts.
10:14Their work has also had an impact on the native blocks, where Jordan and the boys have had some luck.
10:21All right boys, well done.
10:23Keep going, keep going.
10:24Let's put them on the track there, and we'll get our horses down.
10:28Yep, right there, right there.
10:30Well done, shot boys.
10:32Mean.
10:33That was awesome.
10:34Yep, we got what we wanted.
10:36Right, let's go boys, get them up.
10:38Look at the cost of living at the moment.
10:39It definitely saves us money, having to go to the supermarket and buy meat.
10:44So yeah, it's a skill they'll have forever in their toolbox.
10:47Let's go.
10:47Lunch time.
10:48Who's shouting?
10:51Jordan.
10:53Jordan left school at 14, and believes the hands-on skills he learnt through hunting and sport
10:59have contributed to his success as a farmer.
11:03Coming out of school as a 14-year-old or a 15-year-old, obviously there's not too many options
11:09that you can take as part of your employment journey.
11:13I was fortunate enough to get a couple of opportunities on some of the other farms,
11:19and that's where my journey started.
11:21I was just a lackey, or a general hand, just getting on with the task that I was given at the time.
11:28We had a child when we were young, so the pressure was on.
11:31But along the way, we did probably manage to knock on the right doors,
11:35and we were fortunate enough to eventually end up with Pahawera.
11:43The boar will be part of a Nazi Pahawera celebration hangi for its workers.
11:49And while the boys are tasked with the preparation,
11:52Jordan is joining other members of the management team at the Mohaka River
11:56for some unique team building.
12:00Toro Waka is the chairman of the Nazi Pahawera Trust,
12:03and says it's important the team comes together often.
12:08This is an opportunity for them to see a lot of the things they value,
12:11you know, in terms of our river, in terms of the things that we do,
12:14and just reconnect, I suppose.
12:17The Nazi Pahawera Trust is a joint owner in Mohaka rafting, with a move into ecotourism.
12:31The Mohaka River is something that connects us to a lot of our whanau further upstream,
12:43and it is our pantry.
12:45You know, there's a lot of kai that comes out of the water,
12:47and there's a lot of kai that is attracted to the water.
12:50So it's handy to have on our back doorstep.
12:56The Mohaka River holds a special treasure for its people.
13:01You can see all the hangi stones just popping up at me.
13:05The Mohaka is renowned for its hangi stones, you know,
13:07and we have a saying, Mohaka harara, which refers to the Mohaka stones being of good quality.
13:17They reckon that it also reflects on the people, being a hard-ass.
13:25You know, hangi stones are volcanic, so they originate way back in the times of eruptions,
13:32and they end up in the Mohaka and a couple of other rivers.
13:37And only the real good hardy ones actually end up down this end.
13:41That's why they're a prize for cooking hangi, because they don't explode, they don't break up.
13:48We'd consider them a taonga?
13:50Yep, definitely.
13:52Definitely a taonga.
13:53Very our pro number.
13:57And they'll be put to good use at the Trust's apple orchard
14:00in Tangoe, or just north of Napio.
14:04Just prepping some food for our hangi tomorrow, so everything's ready to go,
14:08and we can get the baskets ready, and so Reka will come in early in the morning,
14:13light the fire, get the stones hot, and then we can just simply come and put the basket on
14:19and cover everything.
14:24Joining the team is the Trust's CEO, Robin Hape.
14:27Everything good for the hangi tomorrow?
14:29When we are developing orchards, when we're developing our farms, including the forestry,
14:35we want our people, like Geordie, to manage them.
14:39People can pick apples, do whatever's required, and then manage them, and then help us buy the next
14:45one, and the next one. And we're just providing a platform for that education and transition to take
14:51place, because we've never had that opportunity before. We've been workers for other people,
14:58and now we are the owners of the whenua, we are the developers of the orchards, we are the developers
15:03of the forest, so we can promote our people to be all that they can be, because that opportunity
15:10now presents itself. Robin says Jordan is a prime example of the Trust's goals.
15:15The 10 years that I've been here, I've seen them grow. I've been an active member in our hunting and
15:22our rugby community, supporting Rangatahi and our YMP club, because those are the sorts of things that
15:31the Trust was set up for, and that was to bring well-being back to the community.
15:39YMP is the small local club here. This is how we like to spend our afternoons on a Wednesday.
15:45So we have kids come from Wairo, and a lot of them feed in from some of the other communities,
15:50smaller communities in the area, such as Putiri, Kote Māori, a few from Mohaka. I think a lot of the
15:58whānau are just drawn to the positivity that's been created over the last couple of years.
16:05Gerald Aranui is the chair of the Manaaki Arm of the Ngāti Pahuwera Trust.
16:11It's part of our Trust's duty to actually support the community as well. That's why we're doing these
16:17orchards and stuff. It's so that there's money coming into the area, so there's jobs coming up.
16:23So we've put a bit of energy into our kids this last few years now, and it's starting to flourish.
16:44Pa Kūratari Orchard just north of Napier is Ngāti Pahuwera Trust's jewel in the Crown.
16:50And with the Hāngi Fire well ablaze, heating those famous Mohaka Hāngi Stones,
16:57Orchard Manager Paulie Douglas has his staff working up an appetite.
17:03The overall area, including the nursery, is 65 hectares. So there's 55 hectares in production,
17:11six hectares of nursery trees, which are destined for our next orchard, and the four hectares of oranges.
17:18We're just coming up to our tazis now. So we have six hectares of tazi. Tazi is what we're looking to
17:28go ahead with with our next planting as well. It's a Royal Gala strain. And the Royal Galas are like your
17:34Toyota Corolla. They're your reliable, stable income.
17:38The Ngāti Pahuwera Trust developed this orchard from scratch.
17:44We're trying to standardise everything. So all of our trees are all 2.7 wide rows everywhere.
17:51And just trying to make it easy for teaching people going forward as well. It's a bit different to the
17:57the older style single spindle trees. So you can nearly teach anyone to come through and
18:04and prune these trees the way that they are 2D. It is a bigger upfront cost compared to
18:09the single leader traditional trees. But now we're everything standardised. We can go through
18:15quickly pruning, thinning, even picking, especially with our platforms.
18:19Yeah, so we're just trying to get it to that stage where we're nearly there.
18:25Roemata King has been at the orchard since its inception.
18:30Opportunities are amazing. I started off as an orchard hand, worked my way up to a supervisor,
18:38and then to my beautiful kaumahi, you know. I am now orchard assistant manager.
18:45There is endless opportunities for growth and I'm all for it.
18:53At the moment we are going through and notching and basically what we're doing is applying plant
19:00hormone and what the plant hormone does is it promotes new growth in some of our blind wood here.
19:06And we do it just before bud break or green tip and that's before the sap starts flowing through the
19:13tree. So we'll apply our bud site with a bit of red dye and then once that dries our kaumahi will go
19:20through and cut above it. And basically what that is telling the tree is, is the tree's been injured or it's been
19:28as if it has been pruned and it'll promote lateral branches.
19:32So the 2D system, it's a good way to encourage light penetration through the canopy and also spray penetration,
19:44not to mention colouring of our fruit during the season is amazing with this 2D system. Almost grows like a hedge.
19:51It's definitely an amazing system to use, you know, and it's also elderly friendly and what I mean by that is no more ladders and no more sawbacks.
20:05At this time of the year staff are also grafting to prepare trees to be transplanted to the
20:10Mautaua orchard near Raupunga. Christabel Brown started at the orchard last year after working on a
20:18hawk spade cherry orchard. I wanted to move back home towards those ways so I had to learn the apples
20:25because that's what they're growing. Someone comes along and takes the top off, paints it up,
20:33that's the MV there, MV tree. We need them to be Tazi, a different variety, so we're just changing the variety.
20:46If that looks good, as long as everything is sealed and then we can come back
20:49over 30 minutes or before we go to Smoko, just come back and check because the paint will shrink
20:55and you might have gaps so we just have to make sure that the paint is sealing every gap.
21:00It's up to Paulie to manage the crops to the different conditions of both orchards,
21:04but his mind is now on other things. I've had some messages already last night and this morning
21:11that everybody's looking forward to the hangi, so we'll have our guys that are coming down from
21:16Raupunga as well. They don't often come down here, but having a hangi, everyone seems to all come together.
21:23And Jordan is here to enjoy the fruits of his labour.
21:44Awesome end to the week. Very happy it's over.
21:46I don't know.
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