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You were right actually. Yes it's Chinese, but it was popularized by New Zealand - hence the name !

The history of agriculture in New Zealand is very interesting - for such a small country, they sure figured out how to do it well and quite often in very innovative ways.

It's also the country that pretty much 'invented' farm raised venison.

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I'd give credit to the Hobbits, they were great farmers!

But they suffer from the same inefficiencies as truffle-hunting pigs: they tend to eat all their produce before making it to market.

Weight-conscious NZ human farmers have the advantage there.

There’s a streak of Dutch through the New Zealand demographic, and the Dutch have been famously fabulous farmers in at least some of the places they’ve inhabited.

Netherlands, South Africa, New Zealand, Tasmania and Victoria in Australia, and at least some US states that are famous for agriculture: California, Illinois, Nebraska, Iowa.

The Dutch largely arrived here post WW2, we were doing a bunch of agriculture before then, rest assured.

Didn’t the Dutch acquire New York back in 1613?

Here was referring specifically to New Zealand, apologies for confusion :)

yep, we got em here in Nova Scotia, "little dutch farmers", still doing the dutch beard thing, farming with oxen, deap knowledge of traditional farming practice, oh how they can talk, and bend your ear, best pay attention, as if they like you, they will drop a significant observation into an otherwise seemingly pointless ramble, but as they say....you have to catch it get them in Pennsylvania too, though less obviously out of a clasic painting from the 17th century

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