LUCY WILDMAN
Deciding to downshift from the suburbs to a lifestyle block can sometimes be a bumpy ride. Especially when one of you is a little bit country, and the other is a little bit rock ’n’ roll.
To be fair, both Lucy Wildman and her husband Fran Frost have a cool vibe about them. They met while snowboarding in the US, where Fran is from, before opening a snowboarding shop in Vermont. After returning to Auckland in 2008, the couple launched a children’s clothing company, Little Flock of Horrors.
But when it came to putting down roots, Fran was a strong advocate for the rural life. “Fran always wanted the same rural lifestyle for our kids that he had in Vermont,” says Lucy who grew