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Snorts and snuggles at a second chance sanctuary
5 Jul 2025Sharlene Wilson has turned her rural property in North Canterbury into a haven for rescued farm animals who find healing, freedom and a place to truly belong.
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Invest in nature, no gumboots required
Country Life: What are biodiversity credits and how can they work for NZ?
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Bokashi by the tonne - chocolate brown and teeming with worms
27 Jun 2025Two North Canterbury farmers have been bitten by the bokashi bug. As well as being a soil superfood, it's also cost effective.
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Roebuck Farm - where the garden beds are rich 'like chocolate cake'
28 Jun 2025Over the past 20 years, Jodi Roebuck and his wife Tanya have turned a bare paddock into a thriving market garden with an emphasis on microgreens.
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Jobs at stake for meat workers
28 Jun 2025Meat plants across Aotearoa are struggling to match low volumes of livestock coming through with staffing levels.
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Massive transfer of wealth: Family farmers, growers spurred to start succession planning
24 Jun 2025The agriculture and horticulture sector will see the largest-ever intergenerational transfer of wealth, with farm assets estimated to be worth $150b.
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Digging deep into indigenous know-how
20 Jun 2025Nick Rahiri Roskruge's work in agriculture and soil science have taken him far afield, looking at crops sustaining indigenous communities.
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Stars, soil and whakapapa - 'We're just caretakers, really'
20 Jun 2025This Matariki, the stars align for Mark and Susannah Guscott - an award-winning couple bringing together whakapapa and astronomy on their sixth-generation Wairarapa farm.
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'We can grow anything here': Taranaki family's growing experiment
20 Jun 2025On their family whenua in north Taranaki, the McClutchies grow different crops and aspire to growing Māori medicinal plants.
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The quail kid - cracking the egg market aged 12
16 Jun 2025Hamish Sturgeon has been rearing quails for their eggs since the age of 11.
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From generation to generation - a century at Daisybank
14 Jun 2025Strong family support, innovation and a dash of good luck have seen the Harvey family of Wairarapa clock up 100 years on Daisybank Farm near Martinborough.
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Bob's berry farm - thorny, thrifty and thriving
9 Jun 2025Bob Teal's resourcefulness has allowed him to keep growing a niche range of berries into his 80s.
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The benefits of wrapping yourself in a woollen blanket this winter
17 May 2025Taranaki weaver Alison Ross is trying to bring back woollen blankets made from locally-grown wool to highlight the fibre's benefits.
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'In the winter, the roads can be a bit scary': The life of a rural midwife
17 May 2025Fording rivers and driving dangerous, winding roads is all in a day's work for Coromandel midwife Sheryl Wright.
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Rustic sheds reveal immigrants' farming legacy
12 May 2025The story of a pioneering family of Dalmatian immigrants has been kept alive through a cluster of old sheds on the Devcich farm near Thames.
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Harvesting time is nuts at busy walnut orchard
9 May 2025The walnut harvest is underway at Lightfoot Orchard in Canterbury.
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Passing down traditions in the tītī 'pluck house'
9 May 2025Dan Tarrant's ancestors have been harvesting muttonbirds or tītī for 500 years. The autumn harvest is a family affair and a chance to pass down skills and traditions.
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Conditions on farms and orchards around the motu
Wet weather caused flooding and disrupted the kiwifruit harvest. But for many drought-afflicted farmers it's been welcomed.
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Life is gourd for pumpkin seed growers at Summer Hill Seeds
4 May 2025Whanganui farming couple Clare and Grant Adkins are growing plant proteins alongside their animal proteins.
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'Farms are one of the last places I'd ever wanted to be'
Raymond Sagapolutele was not sure what to expect when he arrived at Castle Hill Station for a Creative NZ residency.
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Agritourism business lets farming family see their home anew
Meet the Robinsons - fifth generation sheep and beef farmers who've added a diverse range of income streams to the family farm.
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Stud owner brings new meaning to 'a bull in a china shop'
Collecting fine china is an unusual hobby for a bull breeder, but Tony Thompson is a man of many passions including breeding top quality cattle, pioneering embryo work and mentoring the next…
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Wairarapa farmer's DIY lake brings 'peace of mind'
Len French wanted a lake to help with water security on his eastern Wairarapa farm. What he's built, Lake Braemore, is now a community asset that can be enjoyed by all.
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Weathering the 'worst drought in 50 years' as an organic dairy farmer
Moving to once-a-day milking has helped Janet Fleming through Taranaki's recent drought.
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