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Country Life for Friday 6 February 2009

  • Intro and guest

    9:05 PM.A range of Keratin hair products has been developed by Christchurch hairdresser Mike Hamel. Audio

  • Regional wrap

    9:08 PM.North Is farmers would be very happy if the skies opened this weekend and in the South Is farmers have been busy making hay. Audio

  • Effluent to Energy

    9:14 PM.Canterbury based electrical power engineer, Ian Bywater has developed an effluent-to-energy system for dairy units. Audio

  • Farms For Families

    9:35 PM.The Auckland Regional Council has 26 regional parks and 18 of those are working farms. Audio

(Below left) Scandrett Regional Park, north of Auckland. (Below right) Duder Regional Park - near Clevedon, south of Auckland.

North View barn & seaDuder ariel view

(Below left) Hand's on experience at Ambury Regional Park. (Below right) Teaching city kids about country life at Ambury Regional Park.

Ambury farm Teacher & kidsAmbury farm

Ian Bywater and Greame Souness of Bio Gen Cool

(Above) Making good from gas: Ian Bywater, left, and Malcolm Souness in front of the digestive tank where the effluent is processed, at the pilot biogas plant in Eyrewell, North Canterbury