When Nicola Harvey left her high-powered job in the media in Sydney to take on a small cattle farm in New Zealand, she had little idea what she was getting into.

And as she and her husband slowly developed their skills, they realised that the typical goals of commercial farms—centered around efficiency and exports—didn't match what they wanted from life or the land.

So, from land management to waste use, they sought out ways to let the business match their ideals, and along the way discovered a different approach to farming, which merges tradition with technology.

In the Drawing Room, Nicola shares her experience and talks about her new book, Farm: the making of a climate activist.