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Country Life for Friday 19 August 2022

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  • Country Life for Friday 19 August 2022

    rural farming
    ewe and newborn lamb

    9:05 PM.Restore Native, Moving to the lambing beat, Food and friendship with Magic Beans and On the Farm - a wrap of farming conditions around NZ. Read more Audio

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

    bulls

    9:07 PM.Northland, Tasman/Nelson, Marlborough and West Coast farmers are once again dealing with flooded paddocks, slips, access roads blocked and significant damage following huge volumes of rain falling… Read more Audio

  • Food and friendship with Magic Beans

    rural farming
    Judy Tindall

    9:17 PM.A start-up called Magic Beans is helping connect people and save money by swapping home grown food. Read more Audio

  • Moving to the lambing beat

    rural farming
    Alistair and Genna Bird

    9:26 PM.Every morning during lambing Alistair Bird heads out with his binoculars and a Go Pro camera to look for new born lambs and birthing ewes that are struggling. He uses the GoPro to record the highs and… Read more Audio

  • Restore Native

    farming Waikato
    Adam Thompson Restore Native

    9:43 PM.The name of beef farmer Adam Thompson's business says it all - Restore Native. Half a million native plants have left his nursery this winter. Many have gone to farmers wanting to restore gullies… Read more Audio

  • Previous Episode: Friday, 12 August 2022
  • Next Episode: Friday, 26 August 2022
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