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Country Life for Friday 10 February 2023

  • Previous Episode: Friday, 3 February 2023
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  • Fossil Creek Farm: 'It hugs you'

    rural farming
    Jude with Luna

    7:35 PM.Children and teens with mental health issues are entranced when they spend time at Fossil Creek Farm just outside Nelson. The donkey Holly senses when she should snuggle close and the rhythm of egg… Read more Audio

  • Rugged farmland reverting back to bush

    rural farming
    Nigel Graham

    7:21 PM.700 hectares of hill country on Nigel and Cathy Graham's Kaikoura farm is being retired. Income from honey and carbon credits are repacing livestock on the regenerating land. The couple have also… Read more Audio

  • A taste of country in growing suburbia

    rural farming
    Farm manager Coral Remiro tending to seedlings.

    7:11 PM.Once on the outside of Hamilton sits an urban farm keen to deliver vegetables that don't cost the planet. Run by five women, Earth Stewards practices poly-cropping on their organic vegetable beds. Read more Audio

  • News Wrap

    rural farming
    Receding flooding reveals the extent of some of the crop loss around Pukekohe

    7:07 PM.This new segment looks at some of the major agricultural news of the week with RNZ's rural news team. Reporter Maja Burry chats about dragonfruit, deer milk, rural support for flood-stricken farmers… Read more Audio

  • Full Episode for Friday February 10 2023

    rural farming
    Roo relaxes while others in the alpaca herd stay alert.

    7:06 PM.Country Life vists a suburban market garden delivering vegetables that don't cost the earth and a beef farm where hills are being returned to native bush. Also in the show, a trip to Fossil Creek Farm… Read more Audio

  • Previous Episode: Friday, 3 February 2023
  • Next Episode: Friday, 17 February 2023
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