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    Country Life for Saturday 21 January 2012

    • Previous Episode: Saturday, 14 January 2012
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    • Figs in Hawkes Bay

      rural Hawkes Bay

      9:18 PM.Helen Walker and Murray Douglas are fig enthusiasts and grow them on their horticultural block near Havelock North in Hawkes Bay. Audio

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    • Udderly Robotic

      farming Canterbury

      9:27 PM.Cosmo Kentish-Barnes visits New Zealand's first commercial robotic dairy farm near Ashburton where cows milk themselves when they want to. Read more Audio

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    • Laurie the Luthier

      rural music

      9:10 PM.Luthier Laurie Williams lives in the Far North. To reach him requires a rugged drive on gravel roads but the beauty of the instruments he crafts from native wood is sublime. He selects the trees and… Read more Audio

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