How I live...Ewe betcha! I'M THE SHEEP WHISPERER
New Zealand Woman's Weekly|January 11, 2021
AS WELL AS BREAKING A GUINNESS WORLD RECORD FOR SHEARING, MARLBOROUGH BUSINESS OWNER SARAH HIGGINS, 28, WAS NAMED SUPREME WINNER AT THE 2020 NZI RURAL WOMEN NZ BUSINESS AWARDS
How I live...Ewe betcha!  I'M THE SHEEP WHISPERER

“Being good at my job simply comes from passion. I just love shearing! I’ve always been sporty and active, so it’s like a sport to me because it’s such a massive physical challenge. Since it’s physically hard, it becomes a mental challenge too because you’re trying to control a live animal and that can take a lot of patience.

My love for the woolsheds started at an early age. I grew up on a sheep and beef farm in Havelock, where my mum introduced me to working in the woolsheds like she had done when she was younger. I grew to love the environment and worked as a wool handler when I was at school.

By sixth form, I was working holidays and weekends and even trying to get days off to go work in there! Back then, crossbreed wool was suffering from a lack of marketing, so I did a Bachelor of Commerce in Agriculture, majoring in marketing at Lincoln University.

I worked for a company in Christchurch for six months after I graduated, but missed the sheds too much and didn’t enjoy office life.

Luckily, a friend in England called, needing a wool handler, so I accepted the job and went travelling for two years. It was completely different to New Zealand. There are no shearing sheds in England – you shear outside on the trailer and you’re doing little mobs, moving around all day. I got to see a lot of the countryside.

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