As Jay Clarke mulls the future of the commercial vegetable-growing business based on the fertile plains of the Horowhenua that his family has built into the region’s largest over the last 46 years, his voice begins to tremor.
“I don’t think I’d want my kids to do this,” says the 42-year old father of two. “I get emotional saying this because my mum and dad poured their heart and souls into this and my sister and I continue to do that – we absolutely live and breathe it.
“But it’s come to the point where I don’t want my children to have to face this. I don’t want them to have to live with the stress and uncertainty that we’ve had to live with.” Read more