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Lifestyle farmer

In the 1990s and early 2000s there was a movement of city people onto rural lifestyle blocks. For such people the country represented a healthy environment and good views rather than earning a living on a family farm. This cow, on a lifestyle block near Tauranga in 2005, stepped into the role of mum when the lamb was abandoned by its mother.

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New Zealand Herald
Reference: 191005NZHAGLAMB02.jpg
Photograph by Alan Gibson

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How to cite this page:

Jock Phillips. 'Rural mythologies', Te Ara - the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, updated 1-Mar-09
URL: http://www.TeAra.govt.nz/en/rural-mythologies/7/4