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Country Life Friday Aug 26 2022
Sheep farmer struggles to control huge hungry hoppers, Sniffing dog stops wallabies hopping south, A dive back in time with poet Mike McGee and On the Farm - a wrap of farming conditions around NZ.
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Restore Native
The name of beef farmer Adam Thompson's business says it all - Restore Native. Half a million native plants have left his nursery this winter. Many have gone to farmers wanting to restore gullies…
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Moving to the lambing beat
Every morning during lambing Alistair Bird heads out with his binoculars and a Go Pro camera to look for new born lambs and birthing ewes that are struggling. He uses the GoPro to record the highs and…
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Food and friendship with Magic Beans
A start-up called Magic Beans is helping connect people and save money by swapping home grown food.
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Country Life for Friday 19 August 2022
Restore Native, Moving to the lambing beat, Food and friendship with Magic Beans and On the Farm - a wrap of farming conditions around NZ.
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The mandolin and the man behind Country Life's music
The Country Life theme music has been introducing the programme for all of the show's 25 years on the airwaves. So who's behind it?
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Country Life for 12 August 2022
Putting a steak in the ground with heritage breed, The mandolin and the man behind the Country Life theme, Rongoā - a pathway to wellness on Te Mata Peak and On the Farm - a wrap of farming conditions…
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Putting a steak in the ground with heritage breed
Best of 2022 - Two brothers have combined their skills to launch a paddock-to-plate business selling purebred Galloway meat products.
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Rongoā - a pathway to wellness on Te Mata Peak
A garden is being developed on the slopes of Te Mata Peak to enable more people easy access to rongoā Māori - traditional Māori healing with the help of plants. Tyne Nelson is among those leading the…
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Echo the avalanche rescue dog - sniffing for life in the snow
6 Aug 2022Echo loves rolling in the snow but he has an important job to do while he's in the white stuff. He's an avalanche rescue dog and we are out with him and his handler keeping up his finely tuned skills…
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Country Life Friday August 5 2022
Country Life heads to the slopes with a very special dog who's training to sniff out people buried in avalanches. The team also meet a 23 year old poultry farmer and visits one of the country's oldest…
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All the eggs in one basket at poultry farm after rebranding
Lincoln University graduate Anna Craig has overhauled the marketing story for her family's free range egg farming business in North Otago.
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Seasoned livestock saleyards still serving local farmers
Country Life is at one of the oldest saleyards in the country watching sheep and cattle go under the hammer and meeting the team who run weekly auctions at Coalgate.
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As Australia beefs up sheep tracing should NZ follow suit?
29 Jul 2022Aaron Dodd, Chief Investigator and Deputy Director of the Centre for Excellence for Biosecurity Risk Analysis, based at the University of Melbourne, chats about the foot and mouth disease risk for New…
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Full Episode for Friday July 29 2022
Biosecurity Risk expert, Onuku Maori Trust Sheep Milking enterprise, 25 Years of Country Life - Year One 1997: A Retrospective, Knitting needles are clicking for Operation Cover Up and the Regional…
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Knitting needles are clicking for Operation Cover Up
29 Jul 2022Children in war-torn Ukraine will hopefully have some winter woollies from New Zealand to keep warm in this winter. Knitting groups from around the country have taken up their needles for the…
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25 Years of Country Life - Year One 1997: A Retrospective
In celebration of Country Life's 25th birthday we will be delving into the archives over the next few months. This week we're hearing a selection of stories that the team covered in the first year of…
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From Bovine to Ovine
The Onuku Māori Lands Trust is just starting its third season milking sheep near Rerewhakaaitu, south of Rotorua. One of its dairy cow farms was converted to dairy sheep in 2020 and the business is…
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Proud to be guardians of the land
24 Jul 2022A group of farmers in Canterbury's Selwyn district are focused on improving water quality in streams that flow through their properties. Ellesmere Sustainable Agriculture has received government money…
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Spawning a new generation of fishers
Kids cooped up because of Covid are being encouraged to pick up a fly fishing rod and learn how to catch trout. The Tongariro National Trout Centre also has big plans for education about the fishery…
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A trifle wet for truffles
Truffles are in hot demand but one grower says the wet season means her harvest is down considerably.
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Full Episode for Friday July 22 2022
Country Life heads out with a very young fisherwoman - 9 year old Isla Vahry - to find out how she's learning to fish for trout and the benefits of fishing especially for families cooped up because of…
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Working dogs go under the hammer
15 Jul 2022Best of 2022 - Country Life visits the 64th annual Ashburton cattle and sheep dog sale.
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Keeping a close eye on foot and mouth
Authorities are seeking to reassure farmers about the threat of foot and mouth disease for New Zealand livestock. Biosecurity New Zealand's Deputy Director-General, Stuart Anderson says vaccines here…
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