Country Life for 1 January 2010

A selection of highlights from 2009 - Theo and Joselyn Marama grow organic olives, lavender, kumara and other crops near Gisborne. With a ready laugh and a generous spirit, they live life to the full. Cosmo Kentish-Barnes visits artist Sally Burton in her studio on the Waimea plains near Nelson to talk about her latest body of work entitled White Gold - The Business of Milk, that was recently exhibited at Nelson's Suter Art Gallery. Sally has created a dream dairy herd of cows that are based on actual records from the 150-year-old dairy farm that surrounds her rural studio.