A year in review

 

Almost 3 years old!!

Family times

...and for a laugh. Steph going to an Auckland business meeting:)

Top of the farm!!

She's in the ground!!

 Lookout from the top of the farm to the new, relocated, house... 

Update from Lake Arden: grass is mowed and tidy!

Building at Lake Arden!!!

We discovered a wonderful spot at the farm... lake Arden!

Robin is finally achieving his youth dream of building a small A frame there... we took advantage of the summer which dried up the water to set some foundations over the lake... we're now able to sit on the platform for evening drinks!!

Farm visit

 Come along!

Welcome Arden born in Los Angeles to Rebecca and Stephane on 27 Dec 2020!!

[P.S. Annick's knitting project and its model!]

Soil sampling!

 Another happy farm visit!

Farm views

2020 harvest:

See our farm blog: https://freshgrapesnz.blogspot.com

The Southern vineyard

On the supermarket shelves!

Kyoho - the super grapes!!

Getting ready for our best season ever... Summer 2020!

 

March 2019 varieties!

From L to R: Autumn Muscat, Suffolk Red, Iona, Ruby Red, Buffalo, Future Farms Muscat, Albany Surprise and New York Muscat!

Starting 2019 with a visit to Future Farms!

Pristine...

Blue scarf in Raglan

Japanese plants!

Bush block 2

Track maintenance...
Before:

A farmer under a net

Phew, the nets are up - keeping greedy bugs out:)

Around the globe

We have been on the road lately, for turning points and memorable life events and most importantly met with amazing people!

Last delivery of 2018!

Feb to March 2018

Farming and holidaying!

Recent Janson stint in parliament!

Launch of the research paper authored by Annick with research help from Melissa and cover designed by Yaniv!!

Download the paper here!

June - July adventures

 

Planting trees at the farm campsite!!

Sleepout

Lettuces with a view

View from the garden

Starting 2017 with a love celebration

To those who asked me how I deal with the long flights home... here is one thing I did: put my favorite photos (actually the ones I had in my phone...) to Rob's favourite song!

A matter of focus!

On a rainy day, I focus on what's in front of me:)

Sunday morning.... wait it's like this every day:)

The first day of 5777! Shana tova

Celebrating in our daily style:)

Our beach is crowded today - one more person!

Fishermen at the harbour

Update

After living in Hamilton a mid size city that served us well when during our Uni years and till the kids graduated we decided to move on to our next life stage. Once again, we went through the same process that brought us to NZ 15 years prior to that and defined our dream... Rob loves the mountain and I love the sea, so we bought a sea side piece of land onto which Rob built our house on and a mountain farm minutes away from it.  
 
We moved this Jan and we're soooo happy now. Rob launched his farming dream of which there are many photos on this blog. I live my own dream of research and development in the disability sector.

Cheers!

Scarecrows

Rob's scarecrow... hoping to detract the pukekos - cartoonised on the left.

Upside from the neighbour's Open Day visit? A north view of our house:)

I'd never seen this view before - WOW.

In love with this place!

Each time I look out the landscape is different! ... and Yaniv painted it too!!
More of his paintings at: www.yanivjanson.com

We made it!!! Te Mata house tenant moved in today!!!

Thanks so much to all that helped!!!

Melissa who compacted the ground for the foundations
Tom the digger man
Sadie and Scott who built the deck
Carla who painted inside and outside, scrubbed and built the deck
Margaux who scrubbed the kitchen
Mark and Alexia for their onsite pre-inspection visit
Laura the master curtain-maker who fitted and curtained the place, and painted
Michael and Omri who worked relentlessly this last week finishing the place up to the time the tenant literally arrived from USA!

Thank you sooooo much!!!
Robin and Annick

Happy birthday Rob!! Thank you for the galette des rois, Carla!!

Google's been near the farm!

Sailing today!

Our house viewed from the sea - one of the white dots on top of the hill!!

Da Beach and da tennis!!!