I'm Sammy Stevens.
And I work on the farm at Horseridge.
I'm not a serious guy.
I like to be like Mr Bean.
Comedy...
playing the fool.
I play the fool a lot.
(Sorry, who's that?)
That is my donkey.
(sound of braying)
He welcomes you on the farm.
And his name is Nelson,
after Nelson Mandela.
Yeah, he's brave you see.
It's the best friend you've got,
the best friend you have to work with,
to do the work that I can't do.
And the donkey really understands what you're saying.
You say stop, he'll stop.
And you tell him go, he'll go.
You have to work hard to be a good farmer.
And make the best out of what you've got.
This is the flax.
And why do you use this and not rope?
Because it's cheap.
I'm a cheap man.
Use natural resources is what you call it.
OK, let me go load this donkey up now.
Yeah, you have to use what you've got.
That's what I did.
That crop I've got out there,
I use seed over and over.
And I have potatoes like that.
This is my favourite food.
Potato - you can have it all kinds of ways...
mash, chips, and put in stews.
You name it.
Obviously farmers never retire...
not till they die.
I don't know nothing about ten years.
I don't know if I'm getting to next year yet.
Death - I don't mind. It'll come at any time.
And I have to go sometime,
like all of us.
No, I'm not frightened of death.
You know if somebody is happy.
(How?)
He's contented.
If you're happy, you're contented.
You don't want a lot.
You just want enough.
I'm contented with what I have
and pleased with what I've got.
But I worked for it.
And I'm contented now.
I've got beautiful memories, yeah.
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