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Country Life for Friday 21 June 2024

  • Previous Episode: Friday, 14 June 2024
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  • Where Wellington's wild things live

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    A kiwi sign opposite the Terawhiti woolshed.

    7:38 PM.Terawhiti Station, a 4800-ha farm off Wellington's west coast, is the cornerstone of a project that has seen kiwi return to the capital. Read more Audio

  • Get your skates on

    rural Canterbury
    Staveley ice rink

    7:26 PM.People in the small farming community of Staveley in Canterbury are hoping their newly upgraded ice rink can stand up to global warming after locals pitched in to pay for a new refrigeration system. Read more Video, Audio

  • Rural News Wrap

    rural farming
    A digitally-colorized microscopic image of Avian Influenza A (H5N1) virus particles (seen in gold), grown in epithelial cells (green).

    7:20 PM.A round-up of the week's agricultural news from RNZ's rural news desk. Read more Audio

  • Swapping swipe cards for spuds

    rural farming
    Kowhai Bush Potatoes

    7:12 PM.Sarah Mosley is a chip off the old block. The former Wellington hotel manager is following in her father's footsteps after she headed home to join the family potato-growing business in South Otago. Read more Audio

  • Country Life for Friday 21 June 2024

    rural farming
    Obi, the Huntaway-Rottweiler mix, takes part in the kiwi avoidance training.

    7:08 PM.Country Life meets a former hotel manager who's swapped swipe cards for growing spuds, goes for a skate at a country ice rink and visits the farm at the centre of Wellington's kiwi project. Read more Audio

  • Previous Episode: Friday, 14 June 2024
  • Next Episode: Thursday, 27 June 2024
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