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Country Life for Friday 9 February 2024

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  • More rugged than posh - playing polo the Kiwi way

    rural Hawkes Bay
    Polo match in full force

    7:40 PM.Summer at a sportsground in Hawkes Bay means the thud of hooves and the knock of mallets under the hot summer sun.  Read more Audio

  • Green learning hub grows on red zone land

    rural Canterbury

    7:27 PM.School students are helping turn quake-damaged red zoned land green again at the Climate Action Campus in Ōtautahi/Christchurch. 

      Read more Audio

  • A year after Gabrielle, "a little bit of a miracle"

    rural Hawkes Bay
    Picking has begun at the Wilson family orchard in Hawkes Bay a year after Cyclone Gabrielle caused huge damage

    7:19 PM.A year ago the Wilson family's apple trees were bowled like nine pins when logs came crashing through stop banks and silt drowned many areas. Did the trees come good?  Read more Audio

  • Rural News Wrap

    rural farming
    The red deer milking herd at Aratiatia

    7:12 PM.A round-up of the week's agricultural news with RNZ rural news reporter Susan Murray. Read more Audio

  • Country Life Friday 9 February 2024

    rural farming
    The evening sky in Wairarapa

    7:07 PM.Country Life this week - a chat with a Hawkes Bay apple orchardist one year on from Gabrielle, the Climate Action Campus in Christchurch and a polo match under the hot summer sun Read more Audio

  • Previous Episode: Friday, 2 February 2024
  • Next Episode: Friday, 16 February 2024
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