Dave Hansford - photographer, writer and environmental campaigner, now calls the Wairarapa home.

Since turning freelance, after 14 years as a press photographer for the Dominion Post, Dave has racked up an impressive list of published credits. He regularly appears in National Geographic and NZ Geographic as well as a slew of NZ and Australian travel and nature publications. He has written for the New Zealand Listener, has a regular column in Sustainable Living Good magazine and can be seen on Good Morning TV as its environment spokesman.

If he hadn't followed his chosen path into veterinary science, without doubt he would have made an exceptional writer or stand up comic, although he might not agree that’s true.

Sarah Borthwick remembers the first time she saw the 3.2 hectare Te Whanga Gardens, owned by her then fiancé Paddy’s family. “I thought it looked like the Botanic Gardens,” she says. “Now I just see all the gardening work that needs to be done!”