The Wharf at Waterfall Bay

The Wharf at Waterfall Bay
The Wharf at Waterfall Bay

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Title: The Wharf at Waterfall Bay
Author(s): HARPER, Lisa
ISBN: 9781775534563
Category: New Zealand - Biographies
New / Used: New
Book Type: Small Paperback
Published: 2013
Published By: Random House
Pages: 276
Size (mm): 155 w x 230 h x 20 d
Weight (kg): 0.4kg

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About

The inspiring and entertaining story of a determined young woman alone who overcame the isolation of her family farm to build a flourishing business.

When Lisa Harper returned to her family's farm at Waterfall Bay, at the head of remote Mahau Sound, after years overseas working as a scientist, she showed all the pluck and entrepreneurial streak of the earlier generations of women in her family. The isolation wasn't going to deter her from starting a new business. After all, her grandmother and mother were made of stern stuff, coping with running stock, keeping an orchard, making cheese, operating a guest house, home-schooling children and only getting to 'town' every six weeks. Eight years later Lisa was an award winning traditional cheesemaker and a Nuffield fellowship winner when she had to make a major decision to wrench the family from Waterfall Bay to secure its future. A Life at Waterfall Bay is a story of enterprise and determination, of a young woman determined to fulfill her dream.

Author's Bio

Lisa Harper, author of the memoir A Life at Waterfall Bay, is an award-winning businesswoman and cheesemaker. Lisa's life-threatening respiratory illness led the family to relocate to a remote farm on the Marlborough Sounds when she was a little girl. After obtaining a Bachelor of Science (Honours) degree in Botany from Victoria University of Wellington, she completed at PhD at Lincoln University, under Professor Alison Stewart, director of the Bio-Protection Research Centre at Lincoln, after which she worked for two years in biosecurity in the United Kingdom and Europe. On returning to the remote family farm on the Marlborough Sounds, in 2003, she established a business making locally-influenced heritage cheeses, under the brand Sherrington Grange. In 2011 Lisa won the Rural Women New Zealand 'Enterprising Rural Women' award, and the following year was awarded a prestigious Nuffield Fellowship to study overseas

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