‘Gardening guru’ celebrates 20 years
When she reminisced on riding the back of her grandfather’s bicycle with him in the Netherlands, carrying plants to his allotment where they would garden, she knew she had made the right decision to stick with her green-fingered career.
By Olivia Caldwell
Ortago Daily News
Nov 3, 2025
Excerpt:
When Yvonne Laukens was deciding what career to embark on as a young woman back in the Netherlands, she wanted plants, gardens and agriculture.
However her mother advised her to do some training as a nurse, because everyone in the Netherlands was into agriculture and the market was saturated.
“In the Netherlands when you are at primary school you get an allotment, a school garden.
“Everyone back home is into gardening and agriculture; it is part of it.”
In 1991 she packed her bags to travel all the way to W?naka.
“I arrived in W?naka and took a paragliding lesson at the front of Mt Iron and my husband was the teacher — I moved in quickly and I am still here.”
She and Richard Van Nieuwkoop own a property at the bottom of Mt Iron, which has a garden full of native trees, and birds.
She never stopped being that aspirational gardener, she said.
When she arrived in W?naka, nursing jobs were few and far between, because the then tiny population of about 2000 did not warrant it.
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Source: https://cityfarmer.info/gardening-guru-celebrates-20-years/
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