Resilient Farmer

Every day I watch my farm burn. Day after day, the sky is a relentless, empty blue. As our land dries up, all my hopes have turned to vapour, lost in that wide, blue yonder.And so begins Doug Avery’s story of emotional resilience in the face of what at times seemed a hopeless situation.The South Island farmer suffered terribly during eight years of drought. His farm was depleted and so was he, to ...