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Moon over Martinborough
Two American expat city boys on 20 acres with an olive grove in New Zealand
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'Moon over Martinborough' is Jared Gulian's award-winning storytelling blog about being an expat American city boy on a tiny olive farm in rural New Zealand.
It's also a cold pressed, unfiltered, and organically grown extra virgin olive oil.
Selected blog stories appear in
Wairarapa Lifestyle Magazine and The Martinborough Star. Follow ‘Moon’
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- Donuts every day
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- Moonlit walk through the olive grove
- Too many olives
- Olive harvest boot camp
- Attack of the energy draining suckers
- Silver monster in the chicken run
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- Bringing home Old Lady Lucy
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Talk about ‘Moon’
"A captivating blog… I highly recommend!"
- Bloggy Award"One of the top travel related blogs in New Zealand... outstanding writing."
- GoOverseas.com"A beautifully written, always engaging and often hilarious account of two lovely boys making their way on a NZ farm with chooks, olives and a bunch of good neighbours."
- Charlotte Wood"Pure storytelling... Jared could easily turn the blog into a fascinating memoir."
- A Storied Career"Engaging and entertaining... Taking the Wairarapa to the World and doing so with aplomb."
- ONYA judge"The oft-hilarious results of a fish-out-of-water scenario."
- Wairarapa Times Age"Witty and affecting... Inherently readable... Wouldn't look out of place on the shelf of a good bookstore."
- NetGuide Magazine"If you only have time to read one blog post today, I recommend that you read this one!"
- Haiku Farm"A love affair with the region"
- Wairarapa Lifestyle magazine"It had me rolling with laughter."
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Recent comments
Twitter
- Fair day buys: gigantic platter, used books, old Te Muka pots, plants, fig jam, masala dosa, mango lassi, and a good, strong coffee. 8 hours ago
- Martinborough Fair today. 6 friends down from the Hawkes Bay to go a-fairing with us. 1 day ago
- Rural life lesson #456. Plum chutney splatters WAY more than zucchini chutney. What's that about? Our stove will never be the same. 6 days ago
- What I'm reading as I sit on a stool by the stove, babysitting chutney... The Consolations of Philosophy http://t.co/v68moo61 6 days ago
- This just in from the neighbors. Two buckets full. We can't keep up with the fresh plums around here! http://t.co/9bXiExmP 6 days ago
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- Behind the scenes at Toast Martinborough
- First time I saw the trees
- Getting intimate with a cast sheep
- Make your own olive oil in 23 easy steps
- Old Man Henry and the chook house race wars
- Picking up the oil
- The day the water stopped
- The gay Americans meet the neighbors
- The sweet taste of chicken feed
About Martinborough
About the Wairarapa
Blogroll
- A Storied Career
- All Kiwis can cook
- Avalon's blog
- Benny's Place
- Birth of a Wine
- Chez Lee
- Colour it Green
- Domestic Executive
- Gusty Gourmet
- Haiku Farm
- Home Across the Water
- How to shuck an oyster
- Janis Freegard's Weblog
- Juxtapose
- Let me be Frank
- Life in Crab Meadow
- Love Plant Life
- Martinborough Musings
- Mrs Cake
- New Zealand Back Country
- Poppy Schock
- Read a little poetry
- RedbankJames’s WineBlog
- Small Town Stories
- Sugar & Spice and All Things Nice
- Wellington Road
- Welsh Hills Again
- Wheel turning hamster dead
- WordPress
Martinborough shopping
Olive oils of Martinborough
Wines of Martinborough
- Alana Estate
- Ata Rangi
- Big Sky
- Burnt Spur
- Cabbage Tree Vineyard
- Cambridge Road
- Coney Wines
- Craggy Range
- Dry River
- Escarpment
- Haythornthwaite
- Kusuda Wines
- Margrain Vineyard
- Martinborough Vineyard
- Murdoch James
- Nga Waka
- Palliser Estate
- Pond Paddock
- Porters
- Schubert Wines
- Stonecrop
- Te Hera Estate
- Te Kairanga
- Tirohana Estate
- Voss Estate
Events in Martinborough- More FM Summer Vineyard Tour 2012
- Preserving Course
- Photoshop Layers
- Get the best out of your Digital SLR
- OMG - Oh My Gish Comedy Tour
- Photoshop Paths - the Pen Tool
- SEWN - Longboarding Surfing Documentary
- Classic Hits Winery Tour : Gin, Mutton Birds, Avalanche City
- Rotary Martinborough Fair 2012
- InDesign Desktop publishing (DTP)
- This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 3.0 Unported License
- "Growing olives in New Zealand won't make you rich. But if you're not careful, it just might make you happy." - Moon over Martinborough
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G’day mates. I am the person who helped prune the olive grove last spring so the harvest was a moment for me. What is “pinging”?
Hi Charlie. Thanks for the pruning help! ‘Pinging’ is a blogging term, where if you link to somebody’s post in your blog, it will create a comment in their blog linking back to you. I turned that option off because it feels a little spammy.