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Country Life for Friday 13 September 2013

Chris Partridge and Chris Shaw beside a row of passionfruit vines in Karamea.

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Parrott Slave and Llama keeper Julie Insley.

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  • Intro and Regional Wrap

    9:05 PM.Most of the North Island came through this week unscathed by this week's storm, but in the South Island gale force winds caused havoc in Canterbury. Audio

  • Moon Over Martinborough: A Book Reading Part Eight

    9:12 PM.Livestock dying is just part of living in the country, and having already had to kill a poorly chicken, Natasha, CJ and Jared are now having to deal with an ill rooster. Jared is reading episode… Read more Audio

  • Bakers Creek Orchard

    9:18 PM.Chris Shaw and Chris Partridge are developing a large commercial orchard in Karamea on the West Coast where they grow passionfruit, feijoas and blueberries. Audio

  • The Llama Lady - Julie Insley

    9:28 PM.Julie Insley has a menagerie on her small Kerikeri farm; dozens of llamas, pampered rare breeds of chickens with fancy hair-dos, a demanding parakeet and his sweet foe - a suplhur crested cockatoo. Audio