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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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A Rural GP speaks out
This week an open letter was sent to the prime minister by the New Zealand Women in Medicine Charitable Trust warning that New Zealand's health system was at risk of a "catastrophic collapse." Anthea…
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Full Episode for Friday July 15 2022
The Dahlia Field, Working dogs go under the hammer, A Rural GP Speaks Out, Keeping a close eye on foot and mouth, and the Regional Wrap.
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Growing dahlias 'a way to recalibrate your happiness meter'
People swoon when they visit what was once a bare block of land in Hawke's Bay, according to Natalie Tolchard, who launched full tilt into growing dahlias without any experience but plenty of passion…
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Ōkārito GorseBusters
8 Jul 2022Best of 2022 - This April, volunteers from all over Aotearoa headed to South Westland to clear gorse from the shores of the stunning Ōkārito Lagoon.
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Wool meets hemp on high country station
Paul Ensor farms sheep and cattle at Glenaan Station in the Rakaia Gorge and co-owns a clothing brand that blends merino wool with hemp fibre.
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Country Life for 8 July
Foot and Mouth, Okarito GorseBusters, Grass burger, Wool meets hemp on high country station and the Regional Wrap.
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Gravy with your grassburger, madam?
Can dairy farmers be tempted to put aside some of their pasture for human digestible protein? New Zealand scientists have developed the technology but how would it work in the paddock?
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Vet warns of foot and mouth risk from tourist hotspot
Ross Ainsworth is a consultant vet living in Bali which has just confirmed foot and mouth disease among livestock on the island. He says wandering animals near tourist areas heighten the risk of the…
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Indigenous Forest and Carbon
Two retired Auckland University lecturers put the case for correctly acknowledging the role native trees can play in carbon sequestration.
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Happy cow, happy customers
1 Jul 2022Waikato farmer Chris Falconer is the first farmer in New Zealand to trial the Happy Cow milk processing and distribution system. He farms the Happy Cow way, with a strong focus on being green and kind…
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Growing and showing pigs for fun
While many teenage boys get stuck into gaming after school, you'll find Fletcher Keen in a paddock. Last year a pig named 'Ashley Bloomfield' won the 14-year-old Cantabrian 'Best Boar Over 5 months…
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Full Episode for Friday July 1 2022
Happy Cow Happy Customers, Indigenous Forest and Carbon, Growing and showing pigs for fun and On the Farm - a wrap of farming conditions around NZ.
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Capturing tuna
Five years ago Himiona Nuku started capturing eels full of eggs and helping them on their migratory journey. That was because two power stations on the Rangitaiki River were blocking their path.
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Tourism venture pivots to teaching
Kohutapu Lodge was humming four years ago, it was welcoming international backpackers and living up to its five word motto "Changing a town through tourism". Overnight all that changed. After many…
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Country Life for Friday 24 June
A wrap of farming conditions around NZ, Tourism venture pivots to Teaching, Rayne Bradley reaches the halfway mark, Capturing Tuna and Healing Maori land through hemp.
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Rayne Bradley reaches the halfway mark
When Taumarunui student Rayne Bradley arrived in the big smoke of Hamilton earlier this year to study tourism she was nervous and homesick. A couple of weeks later she was feeling a bit more…
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Healing Māori land through hemp
Isaac Beach felt like Neil Armstrong on the moon when he first stepped foot on a block of land he's now planting up with hemp. The crop is part of efforts to heal the land and involve its Māori…
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