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Country Life for Friday 2 June 2023

  • Previous Episode: Friday, 26 May 2023
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  • In love with yuzu

    rural farming
    Neville Chun checks out his yuzu a week before harvest time

    4:35 PM.It's ancient, niche, sour and prickly - but what's not to love about yuzu? Country Life talks to Neville Chun about his passion for the fruit and follows it from the harvest to the brewery where yuzu… Read more Audio

  • Tom the Young Farmer on his NZ farming experience

    rural farming
    Tom Everall, from the UK, says he found a job within an afternoon in New Zealand.

    9:15 AM."It's going to be painful to go back to milking in a herringbone parlour after the speed that we're able to milk out in the rotary here," says Tom Everall, aka Tom the Young Farmer. The Shropshire… Read more Audio

  • Composting barn better for cows and land, says Karamea farmer

    rural farming
    Composting barn near Karamea - Country Life

    7:23 PM.Frano Volkman's cows will soon be snuggling up on a thick bed of woodchips and sawdust in their new 6,300m2 composting barn. The organic fertiliser formed underneath Volkman's herd will be spread onto… Read more Audio

  • On the Farm

    rural farming
    Kaipara paddock with some harvested, some rotten kumara following Cyclone Gabrielle.

    7:07 PM.Wet conditions in Northland have not stopped all year destroying kumara crops. Arable farmers in Canterbury have been battling to get autumn-sown crops of winter wheat and barley in the ground as… Read more Audio

  • Country Life for 2 June 2023

    rural farming
    Pete Gillespie at Garage Project's wild workshop in central Wellington

    7:07 PM.Growing and brewing yuzu, a composting barn and Tom the Young Farmer, plus a round up of farming conditions around Aotearoa. Read more Audio

  • Previous Episode: Friday, 26 May 2023
  • Next Episode: Friday, 9 June 2023
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