Awatere Valley farmers take punt on new kind of venture
Middlehurst Station is a classic sheep and beef high country farm – with a luxury lodge and a ‘bougie’ butchery to give customers multiple touchpoints with its products.
Willie Macdonald is the kind of heartland, high country New Zealand farmer who has inhabited the role since childhood – he was brought up on a farm in Southland, married a woman who was raised on a farming property with boat-access only on Lake Wakatipu, and has run Awatere Valley’s Middlehurst
