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Gin distillery fizzes with plans for home-grown juniper
Kapiti distillers harvest kawakawa from their historic Wairarapa farm to make award-winning gin. They're also trialling growing juniper berries and planting more natives. Novel pest traps, a bottle…
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Half price natives - and planted for free
4 Aug 2023Landowners in Karamea aren't beating around the bush when it comes to riparian planting. They're making the most of a local not-for-profit nursery and planting service that grows and eco-sources…
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Country Life for Friday August 4 2023
Kauri Forno, Jen Chrisp, Clean Stream Nursery, Japanese farmer and conditions wrap.
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A conversation in the cookhouse
6 Aug 2023Country Life talks to Jen Chrisp who cooks for the shepherds at Puketoro Station. She's carrying on the cookhouse tradition of New Zealand's extensive and remote back country farms.
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A tree for every woman
4 Aug 2023Kauri Forno runs a tree nursery in Gisborne which has been donating trees around Te Tai Rāwhiti for the past three decades. The Women's Native Tree Project Trust started with the aim of planting a…
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On the Farm - a wrap of conditions on farms around the Country
A lot of lambs hit the ground during the recent cold snap and losses are a growing concern in Te Tai Tarawhiti while in Otago there's more feed sitting around than usual so farmers are set up pretty…
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How one woman's 'childhood dream' led her to a Kiwi dairy farm
5 Aug 2023Chihiro Hanyuda moved to New Zealand seven years ago...now she is an award winning dairy farmer.
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Pig hunting escapades of a woman in pink
28 Jul 2023Kim Swan, joins Country Life this week for a chat about her latest book and what it takes to be a woman on tough terrain.
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Wild goats in hunters' sights in crack down on destructive population
28 Jul 2023Two organisations have teamed up to encourage hunters to cull high-density goat populations across the country with prizes up for grabs.
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"Bring the cash in a suitcase and the farm's yours!"
Karamea dairy farmer Peter Langford says he and his wife Debbie are ready to hang up their gumboots. With none of their four children keen on taking over the farm, it's now up for sale - lock, stock…
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Country Life for 28 July 2023
This week Country Life meets a couple who are still inspired by the rugged beauty of Tairāwhiti to produce honey and art from their bees despite having lost many of their hives to Cyclone Gabrielle…
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Crafting honey and art from bees
Cate and Mike King of Pauariki Honey lost a quarter of their hives after Cyclone Gabrielle hit Tairāwhiti in February. They also faced a poor season of manuka flowering. But the raw beauty of the…
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Country Life for 21 July 2023
This week Country Life meets the O'Malleys who have realised their dream of farm ownership after saving for ten years. Also, ag training without a classroom and a forester making the most of his 30…
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Hard work makes dreams come true
Christopher and Siobhan O'Malley stand in a paddock with smiles that could melt one of the nearby West Coast glaciers. The couple have finally achieved their long-term goal of farm ownership and now…
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The Whanganui forest which never stopped growing opportunity
Richard Thompson planted Papaiti forest with alternative species 30 years ago. He never dreamt at the time he would become a timber merchant with a joinery workshop and retail shed.
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Agricademy - reinventing agricultural training in NZ
21 Jul 2023Agricademy doesn't have classrooms or a campus, instead students can dip in and out of on-line videos, filmed with experts in the dairy or wool shed.
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Ngā kura huna - on a path to hidden treasure at Opepe
13 Jul 2023Push your way through a tangle of bush only kilometres from the Napier-Taupō highway and you are on an ancient pa site. Tangata whenua sheltered here hundreds of years ago but this site is known to…
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Farming and surfing a good balance for young Ag leader
15 Jul 2023As well as managing 4 farms and 35 staff, Jack Raharuhi is a passionate surfer who finds his mindfulness on the water. Country Life visits him at Pāmu's Cape Foulwind farming complex near Westport.
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'A dream from growing up' - Bay of Plenty oyster farm owner
Under new ownership Tio Ōhiwa, or Ōhiwa Oyster Farm as it was formally known, is bringing fresh oysters and opportunity to locals' plates.
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Country Life for 14 July 2023
Oyster farm, Jack Raharuhi, Opepe and the Ag news roundup
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A quarter-acre food paradise in Gisborne
7 Jul 2023Adrian Sutherland has more than a hundred fruit trees on his slice of suburban Gisborne and plenty of veges besides.
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Bulls for sale after Gabrielle - celebrating the wins
7 Jul 2023Kokopuru Station in northern Hawke's Bay had slips and sinkholes a-plenty but the Hallmark Angus cattle stud managed to rebuild the farm ahead of their annual bull sale.
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Country Life for 7 July 2023
This week Country Life heads to a bull sale in northern Hawkes Bay where slips and sinkholes from this year's cyclones have not held back the stud owners from their traditional celebrations and…
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Three generations on the same rural route
Lee Pryor has been delivering post along the Whakatāne coastline for 25 years, but he is not the first in his whānau and now his wife has even joined the ranks.
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