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Jun 2023
14m 35s

Chef swaps cooking good food for The Goo...

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The Good Farm – a raw milk producer and market garden in the Bay of Plenty – is a real family affair. Former chef Loren Gibbs tells us about trading in the heat of the kitchen for digging in the dirt and dawn milking.  
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