Geraldine Farm Tours

Very kind people, Amazing experience,Delicious food,and Bella and Bella
Dec 2nd, 2020

This place is perfect for that get away you always needed its remote and peaceful. The host makes you breakfast in the amazing Farm house
Aug 3rd, 2020

Feb 25th, 2020

Come meet these fantastic ladies (and families.. cant forget the families) who invite you all into their lives and see the true back bone of New Zealand. They have a hands on approach to all aspects of farming and give you an indepth snapshot of how they tend to the farm. Great product and thank you again for the afternoon out.
Dec 13th, 2019

We visited Geraldine Farm as part of an Odyssey tour (early April, 2023). If you're reading this, you probably know you can book directly with them if you're traveling on your own. This stop of about an hour on our 20-day tour was, for me, one of the top highlights. We loved the sheep dog demonstration, and those who hadn't witnessed sheep dogs in action before it was a great learning experience. For me, it was a nice refresher and I picked up some details I didn't know from watching sheep dog trials and demos before. I'm sorry to say I missed the name of the fellow who gave that demo. What I particularly loved was the talk and sheep-shearing demo that Phil Oldfield gave. Phil and his son Allan are a couple of the top shearers in the world. I was so impressed by Phil's knowledge and his ability to communicate it to us that I looked up their company, Shear Sharp NZ, and found that his son is equally engaging in videos he's done. Phil first talked with us about the history of sheep and their rather symbiotic relationship with humans over millennia, answering our questions along the way, and telling us about shearing by hand and with power clippers, and why he changed out of his shoes to a special pair of leather, um, "moccasins." Then he gave us a demonstration of hand shearing, talking all the while about what he was doing, and after letting us feel the wool and the sheared sheep. A power clipper shearing followed that. I was left with a couple questions that I asked Phil as we were leaving, and he very graciously gave me good answers. I was left feeling sorry that my university professors long ago were never as good at communicating their knowledge and their love of the subject as Phil was that day.
Apr 30th, 2023