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Our place: Field of dreams comes true

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Coraleigh Parker, of Pickled Whismy, makes terrariums, kokedama moss balls and DIY kits in her parents garden in Te Puna.

Coraleigh Parker, of Pickled Whismy, makes terrariums, kokedama moss balls and DIY kits in her parents garden in Te Puna.

Coraleigh Parker, of Pickled Whismy, makes terrariums, kokedama moss balls and DIY kits to make both. I talked to her about the inspiring environment she gets to work in every day at her parent's farm in Te Puna.

"I am a bit of Pinterest junkie. I saw terrariums on there and I was fascinated so I started a terrarium board on Pinterest. I waited and waited for someone to start selling them but nobody did so I made a couple and I was stoked with them.

"Everybody who saw them loved them too. Two of my friends own shops and asked if I could put them in their stores and they were really popular.

"So it originally started in my garage at the Mount and then to my lawn.

"But that wasn't really ideal because I didn't have the space I really needed.

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"I needed somewhere to store all the plants and have them hanging so I have just been here since the beginning of March.

"So far, it's a work in progress and we are going to build a big roof over the whole space but I have always had little projects in this paddock. There is a shack that sits over in the corner that used to be my chicken coop when I lived here. I had 60 chickens and that whole paddock used to be their run.

"It's really quiet and calming here, which is nice as a lot of the other parts of my business are really hectic.

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"I've got to lot of things to do at the same time and because it is just me at the core of the business its nice to get out there and be totally isolated, you can just sit here and be calm.

"I work on an old table that used to be our barbecue table when I was a kid.

"When I was 5 we got that table. I think Dad built it, but it has been used as a hut and a tree house so it has been everything.

"It was just the coolest table when we were kids.

"It's pretty rickety and debilitated now but it has obviously been saved because no one can bear to give it up yet.

"Mum has a glasshouse which I use that belonged to my dad's mum. When they moved, from the home that my dad grew up in, the new owners were going to bulldoze it so they said come and take what ever you want.

"So Mum dismantled the glass house, she took all the glass panes out and apart, then resembled it here. I had my plants in there but then I needed somewhere to store my moss so that is where my moss is which is near me on my table in my field.''

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