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Country Life for Friday 1 May 2020
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Full Episode for Friday May 1 2020
9:03 PM.A couple looks back on their first year of farm ownership - a wet winter, a drought, a disease they had never seen and, for the first time ever, managing stock on hills. Read more Audio
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Regional Wrap
9:07 PM.Farmers in most parts of the country are longing for rain forecast for this weekend. RSE workers have finished long seasons in New Zealand but many can't get home to the Pacific because of Covid-19… Read more Audio
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View from the Vines: Into the Barrel
9:13 PM.We're back at Te Hera Vineyard where winemaker John Douglas has had an unusually solitary time, thanks to Covid-19, nurturing his fermenting grapes, measuring sugar levels and pressing the grapes… Read more Audio
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Clarence Reserve Station a Century Ago
9:19 PM.Jack Perkins from the RNZ Spectrum programme is talking to Phyl Christie and Joan Poulton about their childhoods growing up on Clarence Reserve Station, inland from Kaikoura. Their father Percy… Read more Audio
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First Farm - a 15 year journey to farm ownership
9:28 PM.Just over a year ago Michael and Susie Woodward packed up their 4 children, cows, goats, chickens and farm equipment and moved from a 50/50 sharemilking position in Canterbury to their own farm in… Read more Audio, Gallery