Anna<\/p>\n
Miniature Galloway cattle have all the attributes of full-size Galloways, but in a smaller package.<\/p>\n
\u201cFor a lifestyle block, miniature cows do a good job eating the grass and there\u2019s less pugging,\u201d Anna said.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe always befriend all our animals by hand-feeding them so we can move them between paddocks.\u201d<\/p>\n
The property easily supports a bull, five cows and two calves.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe definitely breed for cuteness, aiming for compact belted Galloways or the white ones with black ears, noses and eyelashes. <\/p>\n
\u201cThere is a good market for miniature cattle.\u201d<\/p>\n
Anna Campbell, left, with her black and white miniature Galloways. Photo \/ Catherine Fry<\/p>\n
Anna breeds black and white silkie and frizzle designer chickens. <\/p>\n
A few silvers and greys have been allowed in.<\/p>\n
Anna discovered Fashion in the Field competitions when she started watching a friend\u2019s son racing horses. <\/p>\n
\u201cNow all three of us enter, as we all love fashion,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n
\u201cEleanor and I work around the kennels and farm, and it\u2019s so nice to spend time hunting for outfits and accessories, perfecting our hair and makeup and getting all dressed up.\u201d<\/p>\n
They clearly have an eye for colours and detail, as they win regularly both in New Zealand and overseas. <\/p>\n
Prizes include cash and other \u201clovely\u201d things, including jewellery and travel.<\/p>\n
\u201cTo give back to an industry that gives us all so much pleasure, I\u2019ve been helping organise the events at Te Rapa races, where it all started for us.\u201d<\/p>\n
Claudia<\/p>\n
Claudia Campbell at her flower truck in Cambridge. Photo \/ Catherine Fry<\/p>\n
Anna\u2019s elder daughter, Claudia, appreciates art. <\/p>\n
She has a bachelor\u2019s in art, majoring in fine art, and has studied interior design.<\/p>\n
\u201cI enjoy painting, design and architecture,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n
\u201cI sold my paintings at markets and worked in a Hamilton florist for four years, learning how to be a florist.\u201d<\/p>\n
She lives in a tiny home on the property and loves living rurally, describing herself as \u201csomeone who\u2019s happy to get her hands dirty but equally at home in a city art gallery\u201d.<\/p>\n
\u201cIn 2018, I bought a small truck and converted it into a travelling art gallery\/florist business.\u201d<\/p>\n
Seven years on, Claudia still sells flowers from her flower truck and studio in Cambridge and she\u2019s gained quite a following as a wedding florist, working throughout the North Island.<\/p>\n
Claudia sources her flowers from Auckland and buys weekly top-ups from some \u201camazing Waikato growers\u201d. <\/p>\n
\u201cI have chillers in the home barn and my Cambridge studio. <\/p>\n
\u201cI meet prospective brides and run classes from the studio.\u201d<\/p>\n
Claudia also enjoys Fashion in the Field but happily lets Anna and Eleanor dress her, and their choices have resulted in some good wins.<\/p>\n
Eleanor<\/p>\n
Eleanor won the 2023 Melbourne Cup Carnival Fashions on the Field Best Dressed Award and Anna won the Best suited International Digital Award the same year.<\/p>\n
Anna\u2019s younger daughter, Eleanor, has worked alongside her for 12 years at the kennels. <\/p>\n
She completed a Communications Course at Wintec and runs the admin and accounts side, as well as being hands-on with the dogs.<\/p>\n
Eleanor started the tradition of everything being black and white when she had her small house built. <\/p>\n
She loves interiors and fashion.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhen I got two pigs, silkie chickens and dogs all in black and white, it became a thing that we always had black and white animals,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n
She bred dwarf babydoll sheep, a small, docile, friendly breed of sheep with a distinctive, teddy bear-like face. <\/p>\n
They go through the paddocks after the mini Galloways and are an effective part of the paddock rotation.<\/p>\n
Eleanor won her first Fashion in the Field competition when she was 14, but was too young to compete in the finals at Ellerslie with the car prize.<\/p>\n
Since turning 18, Eleanor has won numerous competitions and travelled overseas. <\/p>\n
At the 2023 Melbourne Cup Carnival, she won the Fashions on the Field Best Dressed Award wearing an altered Solace London gown and a hat by New Zealand milliner Monika Neuhauser.<\/p>\n
\u201cThat was crazy and very unexpected,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n
\u201cI won $50,000 in cash, about four TVs, a magnum of vintage champagne and other great prizes.\u201d<\/p>\n
Eleanor is getting married in early 2026 to dairy farmer Andrew Fullerton, and we can be sure that the bride, her mother and her sister will all be stunningly attired.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Anna Miniature Galloway cattle have all the attributes of full-size Galloways, but in a smaller package. \u201cFor a…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":238446,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[140585,24752,5845,12635,1972,3241,15555,140589,120437,34692,13978,140587,9213,140586,14058,2109,14934,140584,5267,6288,28559,1345,10053,296,140588,263,6093,31609,8732,111,139,69,14727,16654,213,4497,47066,2044,32951,9934,1316,1530],"class_list":["post-238445","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-acres","tag-ago","tag-anna","tag-area","tag-block","tag-bought","tag-campbell","tag-chihuahuatype","tag-claudia","tag-creek","tag-daughters","tag-dogboarding","tag-dogs","tag-eleanor","tag-empire","tag-family","tag-farming","tag-fashionable","tag-goal","tag-hamilton","tag-herself","tag-home","tag-house","tag-into","tag-kenneljust","tag-lifestyle","tag-little","tag-mini","tag-mystery","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-outside","tag-provide","tag-sports","tag-start","tag-teenagers","tag-time","tag-turns","tag-twenty","tag-when","tag-years"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238445","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=238445"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238445\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/238446"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=238445"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=238445"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=238445"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}