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Turning wild plants into natural remedies
It doesn't take long for Rochana Moon to fill her wicker basket with wild plants and fungi. The medical herbalist and naturopath is foraging beside the Cardrona River in Central Otago.
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Pouring passion into Central Otago waterways
WAI Wānaka is working with local farmers and landowners to safeguard and improve the quality of their waterway ecosystems.
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Full Episode for Friday March 18 2022
Full Episode for Friday March 18 2022
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Mini market garden produces bumper crop
Wānaka Willows gardener Martyn Sinkinson is on a mission to supply the local community with fresh organic vegetables. He's transformed an overgrown section near Albert Town into a compact food farm…
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Moving North
Rayne Bradley is 17 years old. She is leaving her safe home environment in the King Country town of Taumarunui and hitting hostel life in Hamilton city. She's the first person in her extended family…
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Cool cows a challenge for scientists
LIC has identified a gene that helps cows cope better in the heat of summer.
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Full Episode for Friday March 11 2022
Country Life hears how farmers are doing in Ukraine, Cosmo chats with pioneering fruit grower Kevin Jackson in Cromwell and Sally finds out how a horse and plough is bringing a touch of romance…
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Horse and plough add French touch to Marlborough vineyard
Best of 2022 - Gordon the Clydesdale has been roped in to help plough between the rows of Churton Vineyard in Marlborough.
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Hard work bears fruit for Central Otago orchardist
12 Mar 2022Pioneering fruit grower Kevin Jackson and his team go out on a limb to ensure the harvesting season runs smoothly at Jackson Orchards in Cromwell.
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Ukraine farmer warns of looming food crisis
Ukrainian villagers and farmers have been thrown back into the Middle Ages, slaughtering pigs and milking cows by hand in an effort to keep the country fed, a farmer in Ukraine says.
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Surgical bus sees surge in demand for cancer surveillance
Mobile Health's surgical bus can no longer offer some operations in rural New Zeland because of the increased demand for cancer surviellance.
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Maniototo farmers in high spirits
A hobby has turned into a business for organic Central Otago farmers John and Susie Elliot. They make single malt whisky in the farmyard distillery using their own barley and peat from a local swamp.
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Country Life Friday March 4 2022
Full Episode for Friday March 4 2022
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Floral Tribute
Every Thursday morning the five women from the Floral Collective Waikato set up their buckets in the Frankton Railway Institute Hall to sell field grown blooms to local florists. Varieties that don't…
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Plenty of wriggle room for world's largest worm farm
Best of 2022 - MyNoke is the world's largest worm-farming operation and it's still growing.
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Full Episode for Friday February 25 2022
Country Life heads to the world's largest worm farm, Black Siberian cherry trees are growing wild on a farm in North Canterbury and a beef farmer in Central Otago transforms a roadside paddock into a…
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Wild cherry trees give farmer the pip
Black Siberian cherry trees are thriving on the river flats at Nigel Wilson's deer farm in North Canterbury. Thier fruit is proving popular with local chefs wanting foraged ingredients to add to their…
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A sweet spot on the farm
Beef farmer Bex Trotter has transformed a roadside paddock into a strawberry field at Luggate in Central Otago. Despite a lack of tourists Red Bridge Berries has been well supported in its first…
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Country Life, Friday 18 February 2022
Full Episode for Friday February 18 2022
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From mother to daughter - A smooth transition
Best of 2020 - After single-handedly running Rees Valley Station for nearly 20 years, Iris Scott was more than happy to hand over the reins to her daughter Kate.
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Growing without sight
One of Taranaki's pioneering environmentalists shows his ingenious method using ropes to help the visually impaired continue to enjoy growing things.
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Winning ways on farm
Rhys Roberts is the winner of the 2022 New Zealand Zanda McDonald Award which recognises young people making a difference in agriculture.
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Onion season could end in tears
An onion exporter estimates Europe will take just half the volume of New Zealand onions it usually sells this year.
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Healing by horse: 'I'm a changed man now'
Best of 2022 - Painful memories of childhood abuse and years in prison are swept to the back of Casey Cowan's mind when he heads into the North Canterbury hill country on horseback.
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