Ride the High Country

30/09/2025 42 min
Ride the High Country

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Episode Synopsis

Join our guest, Colin Pettigrew as he chats about a life spent working in the New Zealand high country where a lot of the stock work was done from the back of a horse!  Support the podcast: buymeacoffee.com/outthegappodcast In this episode we hear about Colin and Lorraine's married life managing a large sheep, beef and deer operation in a remote area of the north island. We also hear of their time spent in Ireland and about their later life managing a research farm for Lincoln university on the south island. And we also answer the BIG question, do farmers ever truly retire?! Colin is a passionate man about livestock and about the industry in which he has worked all his life and after nearly twenty years it was great to meet up with him once again. Thanks for listening! Get in touch: [email protected] Follow our podcast(and farming) adventures on Facebook and Instagram on; OUT THE GAP podcast.