The Resilient Farmer

Compelling, fascinating reading.

Yvonne O'Hara, Southern Rural Life

[Despite] great personal adversity, Doug lived to tell the tale, turning his life around to help others.

Jamie Mackay, The Country

Doug Avery has written a book about his life on the land, his struggles with drought, earthquakes and depression and the recovery that has made him the epitome of the resilient farmer. Not surprisingly to those who know Avery, it is a tearjerker.

Jon Morgan, Taranaki Daily News

The Resilient Farmer ... encourages others to acknowledge and share the mental challenges of the unpredictable rural sector. It’s an inspiring read on many levels.

FarmTrader.co.nz

An inspiring journey and one that will resonate with many people from all backgrounds.

Jo Taylor, Latitude

To be resilient and survive, as the book’s title has it, you have to be tough and able to handle [many] challenges. Doug Avery has those qualities but also a gift for identifying and voicing the struggles his fellow farmers face.

Paul Little, North & South

Doug's story of how he turned his Marlborough farm and his life around is powerful and inspiring.

Judene Edgar, Nelson Weekly

It seems, by switching distress with determination and pain with power, Avery's book enthuses an inspirational, thought-provoking navigation of how the lock of an ever-changing nature reshapes, but how the main key to the engine is to understand and work with the human brain.

M2 Magazine

Doug Avery's [story] offers invaluable understanding, empathy, depth, recognition and hope for rural and urban people alike who feel the shadow of depression clouding their sky.

Veerle Poels, Psychology Aotearoa