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Camp ovens, bullockies and other tales from the bush

Reading Time: 4 minutes Follow Country Life on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, iHeart or wherever you get your podcasts. By Sally Round of RNZ When Lew Pickens was 18, he had calluses on his hands like a 50-year-old and he was proud of them. Now 83, he looks back happily on his days clearing bush and planting paddocks by hand north of Whangārei, hunting and driving bullocks in his spare time. “I think of myself as much as a bushman or a hunter, as I do…
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farmersweekly.co.nz broke the news in on Monday, February 2, 2026.
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