Photo: Pippa Dalziel
Jackie and Matt Dalziel farm on the Waitaki plains near Oamaru and are in the midst of a dairy conversion, but they make time to educate kids outside of farming, too. Through Farmer Time for Schools, Jackie Dalziel has been providing Brookby School, South Auckland, with information and video updates for a few years now. She has built a strong relationship with the school, which has a mix of rural and urban pupils.
“For these kids to realise there’s a pathway into the ag sector, hopefully they’re a little bit interested and they’re like ‘Hey maybe that would be a cool job. Maybe it’s a cool industry’.”
Read more in this Farmer’s Weekly article.