RealNZ | Walter Peak High Country Farm
Lakeside high country sheep farm with a red-roofed homestead, heritage gardens and farm-to-table dining.
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About this audio guide
This guide to the Colonel's Homestead at Walter Peak High Country Farm, across the lake from Queenstown, is about appetite and the land that feeds it. It follows a chef who cooked from the gardens around this house, what he foraged, and why he cared how long a pea had been off the vine. It also reaches back to the Mackenzie family, their sheep station and a wedding present from nineteen-oh-eight. Best heard on the terrace, looking out over the gardens.
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