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Country Life for 9 October 2020
Country Life this week follows a cow podiatrist tending his patients' feet. It can be a mucky job but enormously satisfying! And Dr John Hellstrom talks about how the Marlborough Sounds is fighting…
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On a mission to destroy wilding pines
9 Oct 2020Dr John Hellstrom is at the helm of a group leading the way in New Zealand in the battle against wilding pines which are being blamed for creating tinder box conditions in parts of the country. The…
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From Malaita to Mid-Canterbury
9 Oct 2020When Paul Awaikera graduated from Lincoln University he decided not to go back to the Solomon Islands as his degree focused on temperate agriculture. Back home because it's tropical, he says it…
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Feet First
9 Oct 2020Johan Buys spends his days tending cows' feet. It can be a mucky job but he says it's enormously satisfying watching a cow that was lame stroll painlessly back to the paddock.
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Converting from cow to sheep milking
Traditional dairy farmers have the opportunity this month to learn from others who've taken the plunge into milking sheep. Sheep milk producer Maui Milk is running information sessions in the hope of…
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A Precious Endeavour
2 Oct 2020The global pandemic has touched even the lives of people in remote Endeavour Inlet in the Marlborough Sounds.
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Students Wanted for Orchards
Summerfruit NZ is launching a campaign to attract tertiary students to Central Otago over summer to pick fruit.
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Breeding lovely leeches
Maria Lupton has New Zealand's only leech farm, with tens of thousands of the parasites in tanks on her Waikato property. She even takes them on holiday so she can respond quickly if a hospital needs…
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Building up potential of bumblebees
Plant and Food Research would like to empower the development of a much larger bumblebee industry in New Zealand. It has developed the technology to successfully breed bumblebees, now it wants…
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Hort Hub for Katikati
Construction of a new 'centre of excellence' for horticulture is expected to begin in Katikati early next year. The education hub will be based at Katikati College and will bring together training…
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Full Episode for Friday September 25 2020
This week on Country Life, Dana Thompson and her family are living off the land in South Otago and helping others who want to do the same. She shares what she has learned in a weekly blog and a vlog…
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Raising meat rabbits proves food for thought for aspiring author
Dana Thompson and her family are living off the land in South Otago and helping others who want to do the same. She shares what she has learned in a weekly blog and a vlog. She's also penned several…
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Rural Dynamo, Merilene Horsford
This week Country Life's spending time with a rural woman who rarely stands still. Merilene Horsford is a farmer, mother of six, a grandmother, nurse, music teacher, te reo teacher, is active at her…
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Tractors on the Beat
Among his many duties, Senior Sergeant Alasdair Macmillan is responsible for co-ordinating the movements of New Zealand's two police tractors.
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On the Farm - a wrap of farming conditions around NZ
Docking's started in blustery weather in the North and in Te Waipounamu it was a wild week for many on both sides of the main divide.
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Saving an Otago farming relic
Charlie Davis wants to protect the old Kelso Dairy Factory in West Otago. "Leave it here, it's history," says the retired farmer and local historian. He's leading a community project to repair the…
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Crazy about Canadian cattle
Tapanui farmer Mark Tiller came across the Speckle Park cattle breed several years ago while managing a dairy farm. Now he's breeding the cattle full time under the Aniwaniwa Stud name. Speckle Park…
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Country Life for 11 September 2020
Full Episode for Friday September 11 2020; soil doctor Nicole Masters, Dr Jessica Hutchings has been a leader of the Maori organics movement and is putting her ideas into practice on her small family…
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Farming the Hua Parakore Way
11 Sep 2020Dr Jessica Hutchings, (Ngai Tahu, Gujarati), is an organic farmer, yoga teacher and "recovering" academic who's written books on Maori food security. She has been a leader of the hua parakore or Maori…
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No Looking Back After Going Organic
Twenty-three years ago Otago farmer Allan Richardson and his wife Sonia decided to start farming their 1300 hectare sheep and beef farm organically. Allan's father Colin, who had bought the farm at…
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Regional Wrap for 11 September 2020
More kiwifruit blocks are being planted in south Auckland and lambs are skipping around paddocks with the sun on their backs.
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Living the Dream
Agro-ecologist Nicole Masters is living her dream out of a horse truck in the US helping ranchers and croppers shift mindsets to improve their soils and become more resilient.
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Worms in the burbs
5 Sep 2020A micro-farming movement in the Hutt Valley is helping to feed hundreds of local people. Urban Kai set up by The Common Unity Project involves keen gardeners, state house tenants and inmates at…
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Country Life for 4 September 2020
Urban farming in the Hutt Valley helps feed hundreds, a kanuka honey natural healthcare product is to be sold in North America, a former airline pilot says many out-of-work colleagues will consider…
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