Abbie hails from a farming background, having grown up on a large sheep and beef farm in Marlborough, this early farm life propelled her to work on a variety of stations across Australia. Our grounded food responder is also a commercial helicopter pilot obtaining her commercial licence in 2005 and flying throughout New Zealand and Australia.
Understanding food systems is in her DNA from flying helicopters to protect crops from frosts to technical work doing GPS mapping for research centres. Abbie is an all-round superstar having had experience in hospitality and tourism and has spent many years in the viticultural industry from grass roots vineyard work through to cellar door with food and wine.
Now back on her own small farm, Abbie has planted out her dream orchard and vegetable garden and she has a great love of organic produce (and understands the value of good compost) and a goal of being completely self-sufficient. The road to self-sufficiency means that Abbie spends her spare time developing her property so she is no longer farming rocks, she is also an avid animal lover and thoroughly enjoys riding her horses amongst the scenery of the Kaikoura coastline. She’s a bit inspiring, our Abbie.
