Matt’s rural return I’VE FIGURED OUT WHAT HAPPINESS IS
With a baby girl due in September, compiling research for a Country Calendar story and building a “forever home” on their Otago farmlet about to start, Matt Chisholm is pinching himself.
After a well-documented struggle with depression and a yearning for the country life, the popular journalist is at long last in his happy place, negotiating his rural roots while keeping a foot in the television industry.
“I’m finally living both lives and that’s always what I’ve dreamed of doing,” beams Matt, 44, with “his shepherdess” wife Ellen, 37, sitting beside him during a chat with the Weekly.
“I can’t describe how rewarding it is for me, going out and doing what I call farming – but what other farmers might call mucking around. It does something for me. Even if it’s a freezing, wet, boggy day, I just love it.
