Media

Interviews from radio, podcasts, newspapers, blogs, and television.

Note: Some of the older New Zealand interviews mention my book, “Moon Over Martinborough.” That is the NZ title for my memoir which is called “An Olive Grove at the Edge of the World” overseas.

Podcast: Blog to Best-Selling Memoir – PageStarter (46 min)
2 June 2023. Covers my journey to become a bestselling author, ‘connectedness’ in my life and writing, and more.

Podcast: An Olive Grove at the Edge of the World with Jared Gulian – Just in Conversation (58 min)
24 February 2022. Covers creativity, fear, and pursuing your dreams.

Radio: ReCooper8 – ArrowFM (22 min)
20 September 2021. Launching a novel during COVID. Interview on ReCooper8.

Newspaper: Latest book inspired by author’s backyard – Wairarapa Times Age
8 October 2021. All about writing and launching ‘The Last Beekeeper’.

Radio: Words from the Bubble – Manawatu People’s Radio (54 min)
10 May 2021. Chatting with Rachel Doré about my upcoming science fiction thriller.

Radio: Olive oil industry growing – Radio New Zealand (9 min)
6 January 2014. An interview on a rainy day about our olive oil production.

Blog: Blog-to-Book Goes Over the Moon – How to Blog a Book
24 September 2013. An interview about how my blog became a book.

Newspaper: The Good Oil on Martinborough – Dominon Post
5 August 2013. An interview after a reading from my memoir during the Olive Harvest Festival.

Newspaper: Over the Hill for Olive Oil – Dominion Post
10 July 2013. An interview during the Olive Harvest Festival, and the first time I’ve ever been called a ‘bearded American hipster.’ 🙂

Blog: A Blog-to-Book Success – WordPress.com
8 July 2013. WordPress, the blogging software company, interviewed me about my blog becoming a book.

Television: Finding the Good Life: TVNZ’s Breakfast
7 July 2013. The Breakfast show comes to our olive grove for a visit.

Radio: Afternoons with Jim Mora – Radio New Zealand (25 min)
17 June 2013. An interview about our move our to rural New Zealand, my blog, and my olive farming memoir.

Newspaper: Reaching for the Moon – Dominion Post
17 June 2013. Catching a bloodthirsty ferret and discussing my beloved chickens, including the best quote ever: “Real farmers, of course, don’t have favourite chickens.”

Radio: Justin du Fresne Show – Newstalk ZB (15 min)
15 June 2013. Talking about my blog becoming a book, and moving to NZ.

Radio: The Home & Garden Show – RadioLIVE (8 min)
8 June 2013. Interview by Helen Jackson and Tony Murrell.

Blog: From Blog to Book… Moon over Martinborough – WordPress.com
21 November 2012. WordPress, the blogging software company, interviewed my about my book deal.

Blog: Jared Gulian, Martinborough – Expat Focus
1 July 2012. Interview about moving to New Zealand.

Radio: Country Life – Radio New Zealand (25 min)
22 July 2011. Includes a fabulous recording of the pigs! Amelia Nurse visits our Martinborough olive grove to see how ‘Rick’ and I are faring with our trees. (This was recorded back when I used to call CJ by his blog pseudonym, ‘Rick’. So don’t let it confuse you. That’s really CJ. Read about his name change here.)

Radio: Country Life Bonus audio – Radio New Zealand (3 min)
Bonus online audio from the 22 July 2011 interview. This is chicken heartbreak. The story of the late blooming love of Old Man Henry and Francoise the Aracauna.

Storytelling on Radio NZ

In 2013 Radio New Zealand asked me to read 11 episodes from the my olive farming memoir, which was published in New Zealand under the title Moon Over Martinborough. Below are links to the podcasts.

Part 1: Getting intimate with a cast sheep & The first time I saw the trees (11:20)
In this introductory double episode, I get intimate with a cast sheep and then go back in time to tell the story of how CJ dragged me out to the country.

Part 2: Meeting the neighbors (5:39)
CJ and I move in to our new house in the country with the help of our city friends, and a neighbor comes knocking at the door.

Part 3: Invaded by woolly monsters (6:28)
On a hot December day, we are invaded by woolly monsters.

Part 4: Giant beings in the bottom paddock (5:06)
Suddenly we’ve got giant beings in the bottom paddock, and it’s magical.

Part 5: The ballad of the broody hen (5:59)
Ethel, one of the Fat English ladies, transforms into a growling, rabid beast. What was I to do?

Part 6: The very first olive harvest (6:30)
CJ and I invite the city friends out to help with the olive harvest, and we visit the press as the amazing oil appears.

Part 7: CJ wants a pet pig (6:14)
CJ announces that he wants a pet pig, and I absolutely refuse. Of course CJ prattles on about the pig for some time, and I finally give in.

Part 8: Old Man Henry fades (5:20)
Our geriatric rooster starts laying on our hen’s eggs, and I know something’s wrong.

Part 9: My first time pickling olives (5:28)
The first time I ever tried to pickle olives, it all went smoothly. Right? Wrong.

Part 10: One sick pig (5:53)
CJ’s beloved pet pig, Old Lady Lucy, gets sick while CJ is away.

Part 11: The olive muse and Moore Wilson’s (4:55)
My very first olive oil tasting, where I talk to real live humans.

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