Sally Round

Wellington

Journalist and Producer at Radio New Zealand (RNZ)

Host at Country Life Podcast

RNZ journalist and producer

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Articles

Coromandel midwife Sheryl Wright navigates remote roads to deliver rural babies

2 weeks ago | nzherald.co.nz | Sally Round

Sheryl Wright loves the education side of midwifery and working with mothers. "I see them grow with that knowledge". Photo / RNZ, Sally RoundBy Sally Round of RNZFording rivers and driving dangerous, winding roads is all in a day’s work for Coromandel midwife Sheryl Wright. Wright covers northwest Coromandel - one of New Zealand’s most remote regions - caring for pregnant women and new mothers and delivering babies at home, sometimes off-grid.
Coromandel Peninsula’s Devcich Farm shines a light on Dalmatian pioneers

3 weeks ago | nzherald.co.nz | Sally Round

Lorenza Devcich outside the the woolshed, which is among a cluster of farm buildings listed as a place of special significance with Heritage New Zealand Pouhere Taonga. Photo / RNZ, Sally RoundBy Sally Round of RNZOld pack horse saddles slung over beams, a sack of ancient kauri gum, and a well-thumbed Ready Reckoner on the counter tell just one chapter of the Devcich Farm story.
Country Life: Devcich Farm Shines A Light On Dalmatian Pioneers

3 weeks ago | business.scoop.co.nz | Sally Round

Article – RNZThe story of a pioneering family of Dalmatian immigrants has been kept alive through a cluster of old sheds on the Devcich farm near Thames. Sally Round, for Country LifeOld pack horse saddles slung over beams, a sack of ancient kauri gum and a well-thumbed Ready Reckoner on the counter tell just one chapter of the Devcich Farm story.
Country Life: Muttonbirding - ‘It’s a part of who we are’

4 weeks ago | nzherald.co.nz | Sally Round

Daniel Tarrant is the fifth great grandson of the last chief of Ruapuke Island. Photo / RNZBy Sally Round of RNZ Daniel Tarrant and his whānau continue the 500-year tradition of harvesting tītī on Rakiura. The focus is on sustainable practices, avoiding methods like nanao, and teaching the next generation. Tītī are processed by hand, with the whānau involved, ensuring the tradition and stories are passed down.
Country Life: Devcich Farm shines a light on Dalmatian pioneers

4 weeks ago | rnz.co.nz | Sally Round

Old pack horse saddles slung over beams, a sack of ancient kauri gum and a well-thumbed Ready Reckoner on the counter tell just one chapter of the Devcich Farm story. The items are in the farm's old trading post where, early last century, gum diggers and loggers came to buy stores for their camps up the Kauaeranga Valley on the Coromandel Peninsula. There's also an old blacksmith's forge, a timber mill with sawpit and a winery complete with antique wine-making tools and a pungent aroma of sherry.
Country Life: Devcich Farm shines a light on Dalmatian pioneers

4 weeks ago | radionz.co.nz | Sally Round

Old pack horse saddles slung over beams, a sack of ancient kauri gum and a well-thumbed Ready Reckoner on the counter tell just one chapter of the Devcich Farm story. The items are in the farm's old trading post where, early last century, gum diggers and loggers came to buy stores for their camps up the Kauaeranga Valley on the Coromandel Peninsula. There's also an old blacksmith's forge, a timber mill with sawpit and a winery complete with antique wine-making tools and a pungent aroma of sherry.
Country Life: Muttonbirding - 'It’s a part of who we are'

4 weeks ago | rnz.co.nz | Sally Round

Daniel Tarrant and his whānau are among Rakiura Māori who have the right to carry on the ancient tradition of harvesting tītī or muttonbird on about 30 tītī islands. He is the fifth great grandson of the last chief of Ruapuke Island near Rakiura Stewart Island. He spoke to Country Life from a small hut on one of the motu where he is staying for the month-long harvest. Follow Country Life on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, iHeart or wherever you get your podcasts.
Country Life: Muttonbirding - 'It’s a part of who we are'

4 weeks ago | radionz.co.nz | Sally Round

Daniel Tarrant and his whānau are among Rakiura Māori who have the right to carry on the ancient tradition of harvesting tītī or muttonbird on about 30 tītī islands. He is the fifth great grandson of the last chief of Ruapuke Island near Rakiura Stewart Island. He spoke to Country Life from a small hut on one of the motu where he is staying for the month-long harvest. Follow Country Life on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, iHeart or wherever you get your podcasts.
Country Life: Innovation meets tradition at Rotorua kūmara harvest

2 months ago | rnz.co.nz | Sally Round

Volunteers at the food growing collective Kai Rotorua are excited about their new kūmara storage house made from hempcrete - a material made up of the woody stems of the hemp plant, mixed with lime. It is hoped the hempcrete panels, which make up the three-by-three metre hut at the entrance to the charity's small vegetable farm and fruit orchard at Kaharoa, will create a dark environment with an even temperature for the root crop, and spark interest in hempcrete.
Country Life: Highlands Station - a farm shaped by an eruption

2 months ago | rnz.co.nz | Sally Round

It is hard to imagine the neat paddocks of green rolling pasture on Highlands Station once covered in metres of thick wet mud. On 10 June 1886, the slopes within the horseshoe of lakes to the southwest of Mount Tarawera were splattered with metres and metres of mud from the floor of Lake Rotomahana as part of a massive six-hour eruption which killed more than 100 people. So, what has it been like to farm in an area which had been so devastated?