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Totara Estate’s Harvest Home –
an established and eagerly anticipated event on North Otago’s
calendar - will be celebrated again this year on Sunday 6 April. Today,
opportunities are rare to relive the harvesting sights, sounds and
smells that were commonplace a century ago.
With next
year’s calendars already on sale, a day to mark down is Sunday 1st April.
That’s the day that Totara Estate’s Harvest Home – an established
and eagerly anticipated event on North Otago’s calendar - will be celebrated.
North
Otago's agricultural past will be celebrated at the Annual Totara Estate Harvest
Home on Sunday 26th March. The key theme this year is a revival of North Otago's
Caledonian Games which were popular in the 19th century.
From all parts of North Otago, Totara Estate's infamous swaggers will gather this
month for a mid-winter muster. The gathering is being held to coincide with the
arrival of the Lions 'Barmy Army'. The aim is to introduce the Brits to the 'home
of their Sunday roast', a reference to Totara's experimental role in frozen meat
exporting to the mother country.
A rare
swagger's quilt, once the trusty companion of a North Otago swagger, has come
home in time for the annual Harvest
Home* celebrations on April 3rd at North Otago's historic Totara Estate.
When
it comes to exporting frozen lamb North Otago's Totara Estate led the world. Now,
125 years on, the Estate is again seeking recognition for the region's prime lamb.
This year's celebration of the Harvest Home at Totara Estate - a traditional event
on the pioneer farming calendar - focuses on the contribution made by the working
horse. Along with working displays of Clydesdales, traditional trades such as
woodworkers, blacksmiths and saddlers will be in action.
Stepping back to its pioneer past is nothing new for Totara Estate, which on Sunday
28th March will relive an age old tradition of 'welcoming' the harvest home, with
a grand 'live day' of celebration.
Kiwi
folk icon Phil Garland premiered his song 'Bright New Day' as Totara Estate, birthplace
of New Zealand's frozen meat industry located just south of Oamaru, celebrated
the opening of its redevelopment today.
The much anticipated opening of the redevelopment of Totara Estate, birthplace
of New Zealand's frozen meat industry, is now less than one week away. The Estate
redevelopment, located just south of Oamaru, will officially be opened by the
Prime Minister and Minister Arts, Culture and Heritage, the Rt. Hon. Helen Clark,
at a lunch-time function on Thursday 13th November
