"But he said it's the young guys with families and mortgages and extra costs that he was concerned about.
"And because Wairarapa's a really good close community, I was thinking what could we do is to just let them know that they're not there by themselves, that the community do actually care, and that the community is aware that this stress is happening and, hopefully, be supportive."
Ms Hills said she had heard from agricultural industry sources that stress and depression was being felt by some Wairarapa dairy farmers and that this stress could lead to bad decision-making.
"So there's a little document in there that is just about how to get through farming when the income is low.
"And some of them are probably really obvious ideas, but sometimes the obvious doesn't hit you in the face unless somebody else tells you.
"There's the Feeling Down on the Farm paper, and there's a list of local phone numbers so, hopefully, there's a name and a number on there that somebody knows. So that was my initial thought, you know, just a little envelope with a few bits of paper in it."
The idea transformed into a mission to not only provide relevant mental health and agricultural support for Wairarapa dairy farmers, but also to bring a smile to their faces.
"Masterton Medical Centre actually put quite a bit together for me, which was good, and that's when I thought well I can't just give them stuff about being sad, so that's when the idea of putting tea and biscuits in came to me," she said.
"Then I thought, oh it needs a little note, and something to make you smile. And daffodils make you smile, so that's where that all came from.
"It just kind of took on a life of its own really. And once the first person bought into it, that was it. I had to keep going."
