Ian and Pat Robertson, who have farmed 120 ha below Highcliff Rd since 1963, have also had to struggle to make a living. For the first 12 years they were dairying, but got sick of the drudgery. “We’d see everyone else coming home at five o’clock, and we still had another three hours of work to do,” Ian told me. When they gave up milking in 1975 there were only six dairy farms left on the penin­sula—three town supply and three providing milk to the Cadbury chocolate factory in Dunedin.