Best of: rural and country
All the best stories from out in the wops.
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How do farmers overcome stress? They go surfing.
Carol Stiles attended a Surfing for Farmers event in Gisborne. It was started up by a farm consultant who wanted to help farmers overcome their stress.
It was a beautiful lockdown here ... missing friends and family, that's not very easy but we are doing well.
A possum hunter, farming couple and a young Polish man are part of a tiny community in the South Island
We’re on the Dog and Ram Run
When Carol Stiles saw an ad for the annual Dog and Ram Run in the Waikato she knew she just had to go along.
Meet the man who is keeping tug-of-war's history alive
Graham Smith mills timber and runs a daily farm south of Hamilton. He’s also setting up a museum to preserve memorabilia from NZ’s oldest introduced sport.
Taking kids to the farm
Katie Earle has started Bush Farm School so children can learn about farming and sustainability. Producer Cosmo Kentish-Barnes headed off to school.
Would you rather queue in a supermarket or would you rather ...spend a bit of time growing your food?
State house tenants north of Wellington are turning their backyards into small farms to help feed people.
View from the Vines: Grape harvest in a pandemic
Sally Round won an agricultural journalism award for her series following a year in the life of a vineyard. Here’s her episode from just before the Covid lockdown.
Harvesting from the ocean, we don't want to be ending up trashing the ocean. It would be so wrong.
A young fishing couple are out to fish as sustainably as they can.
A Dog's Day Out
Every weekday morning two dozen Gisborne dogs wait eagerly for the rumble of a bus slowing at their gate. Carol Stiles went along for the ride.
He’s been working on kiwifruit for 50 years
Russell Lowe is a kiwifruit expert, scientist and the man behind SunGold fruit.