16 Jan 2016

Country Life Summer Edition Saturday, January 16, 2016

From Country Life, 7:00 am on 16 January 2016

Sovrano Limoncello

Andrea and Marzia Loggia are Italian. They arrived in New Zealand in 2007 and by 2009, from their Kerikeri property, they started producing limoncello. Both had family backgrounds in wine making or liqueurs and they've won many trophies for their Northland produced product. Andrea is also getting into bees, with plans to make Royal jelly infused limoncello.

A Photographer Like Alice

Alice Mabin is the Asia Pacific's Female Entrepreneur of the Year. She's a New Zealander who now roams the Australian outback in Australia taking photographs and publishing them. Alice was on horseback for five months at the end of 2013 photographing Australia's biggest cattle drive in more than 100 years. Eighteen-thousand cattle were walked 2000km to their new home. Alice was in New Zealand recently promoting her book that documents the journey.

Golden Memories

Ross is a sleepy township near Hokitika that was settled in 1865 as a gold mining town. Biddy Manera was born there and has become an outspoken advocate for the community. She looks after the Catholic Church, she's won the battle to save the Ross Cemetery after the Westland District Council mistakenly sold part of it, and she's the driving force behind a project to develop a commemorative garden dedicated to the Chinese gold miners, who came to Ross from Guangdong Province in the 1870's.