Dr. Kieran Kennedy

So yeah, spent a lot of life here in Auckland before, you know, please don't come for me, but moving over to the ditch in terms of being in Sydney now, so...

Yeah, it's just lovely to come back and visit mum and dad and my brothers and things.

It's so nice to be home.

Rural upbringing?

Good question, yeah.

Yes, rural upbringing.

So I grew up in Waiuku.

Both sides of my family had dairy farms, so my dad's side and mum's side both had dairy.

big dairy farms out there, out in sort of Otawa, Akaaka, and then the Afitu Peninsula.

So grew up, yeah, basically just pretty typical, I guess, jumping in creeks and running around cow sheds and things.

So that was kind of early life, which, again, is wild to think that I'm kind of doing what I'm doing now.

But, yeah, I just absolutely loved kind of being outside and farm life and things when I was a kid.

So it was a great place to grow up.

Yeah, I mean it was.

I remember there was one point, because I have three brothers, so kind of a big family of boys, there was a point where I remember, I think it was my mum's side of the farm, there was a bit of a, is it kind of going to be sold up once grandad passed away and things, or do any of you boys kind of want to move into farming?

None of us did.

We sort of wanted to go our own path, which is a bit sad to think now.

But yeah, no, for me, I think not.

I was always a bit more into the books, was a bit of a bookworm probably by that stage rather than being on the farm.

So probably lucky cows that I didn't go into that.