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Te Awaawa Limited

  • 368 Te Awa Road, Te Whiti, New Zealand

Te Awaawa is a sheep and Beef farm owned by Richard and Becks Tosswill, along with their growing family.

It is 646ha (622ha effective). 55ha is flat to rolling with the remainder medium limestone and mudstone hill country. 23ha is in forestry and 3ha QEII swampland. Average rainfall is 860mm annually.

MISSION STATEMENT
“To have a sustainable, top performing and rewarding family business that will allow us to generate solid and consistent returns for the benefit of our family. To be achieved by utilising sound business management decisions, good professional advice and thoroughly controlling the ‘controllable’ aspects within our business in a sustainable way”.

Sep 07, 2026
Full time
2 I/C
$65,000 - $70,000 yearly
Te Awaawa Limited
Looking for that next step in your farming career? Do you want to work amidst a dynamic, forward thinking and innovative hill country farming operation?  Are you fit, energetic, enthusiastic with a willingness to grow. Can you work un-assisted but also value working as part of a team? Richard and Becks Tosswill, along with their growing family are looking for an employee with 2-3 year’s experience to help run Te Awaawa alongside Richard and are keen to further their career within the sheep and beef sector. Te Awaawa Farm is located in the Wairarapa Valley, and positioned right in the heart of the Gladstone rural community, 25 minutes east of Masterton. The local primary school is only a stone’s throw away, as is the sports club complex, and our famous local ‘ The Gladdy’. In 2018 we were awarded Supreme winner of the Greater Wellington Ballance Farm environment awards and in 2020 won the Wairarapa Sheep & Beef Farm Business of the year. We also ran an innovation...