Carol Stiles
Country Life for Friday August 13 2021
Country Life this week learns about gumboot throwing and meets an award-winning Taihape local who promotes the sport. The show also takes you to a farm in Duntroon in North Otago. Millions of years… Audio
On the Farm - a wrap of farming conditions around NZ
The sap seems to be flowing a little earlier than normal in a Gisborne vineyard and sheep farmers in Central Otago are busy pre-lamb shearing but it's been hard keeping yards dry. Audio
Full Episode for Friday August 6 2021
A team of Kurow locals transform an island in the braids of the Waitaki River from a messy landfill into a recreational and ecological area for people, wildlife and the environment. Farming mini paua… Audio
Full Episode for Friday July 30 2021
Cosmo Kentish-Barnes speaks to a pig farmer known as Lord Havoc about his free range pig farm in South Canterbury and Sally Round finds out how highly-prized Japanese style table grapes are grown in… Audio
On the Farm - a wrap of farming conditions around NZ
Orange growers in the Gisborne region are getting good returns and the clean-up continues on inundated farms and vineyards in the South Island. Audio
On the Farm - a wrap of farming conditions around NZ
Hawke's Bay orchards have had the right amount of winter chill this week, pruning and maintenance work is continuing in Marlborough's vineyards and calving's due to start in early August in Southland.
…Full Episode for Friday July 16 2021
The team visit a micro dairy farm near Oamaru in North Otago. Part-time farmers Glen and Bron Claridge milk twenty cows all year round and supply pasteurised milk to locals in glass bottles. Audio
On the Farm - a wrap of farming conditions around NZ
Lettuces are in short supply after frosts and rain in Southland has left farms muddy underfoot. Audio
Full Episode for Friday July 9 2021
Country Life joins Wellington artist Norbert Hausberg who is spending the winter planting natives on a steep hillside in North Otago and takes you to meet a couple putting their own twist on whisky… Audio
Full Episode for Friday July 2 2021
Country Life chats to a farmer who's researched how farmers around the world deal with pressure. Also on the programme, one of New Zealand's earliest organic growers invites us into his apple cider… Audio
Full Episode for Friday June 25 2021
Country Life checks out what a couple of meat companies and Fonterra are doing with the challenge of alternative proteins and we meet a couple who used to be high flying execs overseas who are now… Audio
Full Episode for Friday June 18 2021
A lack of cellphone reception means more time to focus on developing a farm for a self-taught farmer in Manuka Bay. Audio
On the Farm - a wrap of farming conditions around NZ
Some sizable apple developments are going in around Waipawa in Hawke's Bay, but labour is limiting investor enthusiasm, while in the South Island, south Otago farms are dry underfoot and feed… Audio
Country Life for 11 June 2021
This week Country Life is visiting a vegie patch on the Canterbury Plains and takes us to Nightcaps- a tiny coal mining town in the foothills of Southland's picturesque Takitimu mountains. Audio
Country Life for 4 June 2021
Country Life talks to a farmer picking up the pieces after the mid Canterbury floods and takes a tour of a multi-million-dollar Rotorua building designed to showcase the sustainable use of wood. And… Audio
Full Episode for Friday May 28 2021
Country Life meets two Wairarapa brothers forging different paths on the family farm, one makes high quality chocolate from whoa-to-go and the other is dipping his toes into the niche food industry… Audio
Full Episode for Friday May 21 2021
Country Life heads to Pohatu Flea Bay on Banks Peninsula where a sheep farm is also home to a colony of White-flippered penguins. The team is also out baiting traps at a Hawke's Bay farm whose owners… Audio
Full Episode for Friday May 14 2021
Country Life rounds up some school leavers learning about sheep and beef farming and a Waikato sharemilker shares his mental health story. Audio
Sharemilker shares mental health issues with other farmers
Sam Owen is a Waikato sharemilker who's had his fair share of struggles with mental health and depression. He says his condition has seen his health, work and family life suffer. Now he talks to Young… Audio
On the Farm - a wrap of farming conditions around NZ
It's bone dry on the East Coast of the North Island, a hunter out near Hikurangi says in the 20 years he's gone out it's never been so dry and Marlborough is still hunting for rain while the West… Audio