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Country Life for Friday 9 November 2018

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  • The market gardening couple flourishing in Sefton and on social media
  • Scarborough Fare: the delicate business of fine herbs
  • Horsing Around
  • Fonterra's Open Gates Open Day
  • Regional Wrap
  • Full Episode for Friday 9 November 2018
  • Feedback - Bark beetles a problem? Don't export bark!
  • The market gardening couple flourishing in Sefton and on social media

    rural farming
    Cam and Melissa Booker

    9:45 PM.Cam and Melissa Booker grow more than 30 varieties of fruit and vegetables at their market garden in North Canterbury. All the produce, as well as apples from the family orchard in Motueka, is sold at… Read more Video, Audio

  • Scarborough Fare: the delicate business of fine herbs

    rural Auckland Region
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    9:17 PM.Each week Scarborough Fare's Jeanette Rea and Pam Maurice pack out a tonne of herbs - that's an awful lot of leaves. The growers, from near Waiuku, have three hectares in fragrant herbs, mostly grown… Read more Audio

  • Horsing Around

    rural Canterbury
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    9:28 PM.Danielle Power started Accolade Stud three years ago on her 10-acre lifestyle block in Sefton, North Canterbury. The stud is based around her palomino gypsy cob stallion Ballydangan Bo-Shambu. She… Read more Audio

  • Fonterra's Open Gates Open Day

    rural farming
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    9:07 PM.People have flocked to register to visit Fonterra farms this weekend. Three times the number of people who visited open farms last year want to see farming in action this year. Read more Audio

  • Regional Wrap

    rural farming
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    9:10 PM.Bay of Plenty's had glorious days. Silage is being cut here too, there's plenty of grass around. The West Coast is mopping up after a deluge. Queenstown had snow in the hills and then 22 degree days.

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  • Full Episode for Friday 9 November 2018

    rural farming
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    9:03 PM.The Country Life team hear about the deluge on the West Coast - and how Northland would like some of that water diverted its way. Kiwifruit is flowering. Country Life's with one of the country's… Read more Audio

  • Feedback - Bark beetles a problem? Don't export bark!

    rural farming
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    9:26 PM.Peter Bielski of Nelson says if export logs were squared up, the bark would be removed and become a resource for us to exploit. Read more Audio

  • Previous Episode: Friday, 2 November 2018
  • Next Episode: Friday, 16 November 2018
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