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Country Life for Friday 2 October 2020

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  • A Precious Endeavour

    rural Marlborough
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    9:36 PM.The global pandemic has touched even the lives of people in remote Endeavour Inlet in the Marlborough Sounds.  Read more Video, Audio, Gallery

  • Breeding lovely leeches

    rural farming
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    9:23 PM.Maria Lupton has New Zealand's only leech farm, with tens of thousands of the parasites in tanks on her Waikato property. She even takes them on holiday so she can respond quickly if a hospital needs… Read more Audio

  • Students Wanted for Orchards

    rural Otago
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    9:14 PM.Summerfruit NZ is launching a campaign to attract tertiary students to Central Otago over summer to pick fruit. Read more Audio

  • On the Farm - a wrap of farming conditions around NZ

    rural farming
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    9:07 PM.Northland's farmers are reluctant to buy in stock and the sheep farmers in the southern South Island seem to have made it through this week's weather bomb with fewer than expected lamb deaths. Find… Read more Audio

  • Full Episode for Friday October 2 2020

    rural farming

    9:04 PM.If you're squeamish don't listen to Country Life this week! No ... do! We learn about farming leeches and go hunting with a possum trapper in the Marlborough Sounds. Audio

  • Previous Episode: Friday, 25 September 2020
  • Next Episode: Friday, 9 October 2020
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