A brother, his hard-working sister and their partners created a forest on a hillside above the Pacific Ocean. It took more than three decades of hard yakka. Words: Kate Coughlan Photos: Brennan Thomas A tūī swooped low over grass-covered land above Okitu Beach, north of Gisborne near Wainui. It flew past a lone cabbage tree providing meagre cover for three cows with their heads low in the shade and over a car on the dirt road at the top end of the paddock. The land rolled steeply down to a narrow beach, and the car’s occupants — two women and
