Robyn Beveridge was born in 1956 on a North Canterbury sheep farm some 70 kms from Christchurch city. She was educated in Christchurch before marrying her husband in 1977. She became actively involved with community activities as well as working in various fields from Banking, to Tourism and finally for St. John Ambulance, as an adult educator and volunteer ambulance officer. In 1996, her and her then husband relocated an old historical home to the Canterbury foothills where they bred the rare and distinctive Belted Galloway cattle and began a farmstay busine