INTO THE TREES

At 80 years old, Terry Hatch says he’s never worked a day in his life.

Hatch and his family own Joy Plants in Pukekohe, one of the last nurseries left that specialises in old-fashioned perennials. They are also responsible for planting over half a million trees on Great Mercury Island off the Coromandel Peninsula. When others talk about this feat, they refer to it as work, but Hatch will tell you that a life of doing