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Putting a steak in the ground with heritage breed
Best of 2022 - Two brothers have combined their skills to launch a paddock-to-plate business selling purebred Galloway meat products. Audio
Country Life for 12 August 2022
Putting a steak in the ground with heritage breed, The mandolin and the man behind the Country Life theme, Rongoā - a pathway to wellness on Te Mata Peak and On the Farm - a wrap of farming conditions… Audio
Seasoned livestock saleyards still serving local farmers
Country Life is at one of the oldest saleyards in the country watching sheep and cattle go under the hammer and meeting the team who run weekly auctions at Coalgate. Audio
Knitting needles are clicking for Operation Cover Up
Children in war-torn Ukraine will hopefully have some winter woollies from New Zealand to keep warm in this winter. Knitting groups from around the country have taken up their needles for the… Audio
Full Episode for Friday July 29 2022
Biosecurity Risk expert, Onuku Maori Trust Sheep Milking enterprise, 25 Years of Country Life - Year One 1997: A Retrospective, Knitting needles are clicking for Operation Cover Up and the Regional… Audio
Proud to be guardians of the land
A group of farmers in Canterbury's Selwyn district are focused on improving water quality in streams that flow through their properties. Ellesmere Sustainable Agriculture has received government money… Audio
Full Episode for Friday July 22 2022
Country Life heads out with a very young fisherwoman - 9 year old Isla Vahry - to find out how she's learning to fish for trout and the benefits of fishing especially for families cooped up because of… Audio
Wool meets hemp on high country station
Paul Ensor farms sheep and cattle at Glenaan Station in the Rakaia Gorge and co-owns a clothing brand that blends merino wool with hemp fibre. Audio
Growing and showing pigs for fun
While many teenage boys get stuck into gaming after school, you'll find Fletcher Keen in a paddock. Last year a pig named 'Ashley Bloomfield' won the 14-year-old Cantabrian 'Best Boar Over 5 months… Audio
Full Episode for Friday July 1 2022
Happy Cow Happy Customers, Indigenous Forest and Carbon, Growing and showing pigs for fun and On the Farm - a wrap of farming conditions around NZ.
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Energy from the sun fires up vege packhouse
Growing veggies is in Robin Oakley's blood. The fifth generation grower was running a three hectare market garden before he'd even finished school. He started Oakley's Premium Fresh Vegetables in 1999… Audio
Country Life for 27 May
Country Life this week visits an avocado grove on Banks Peninsula, a spud grower in Canterbury using solar power and finds out about the Ngawha Innovation and Enterprise park being built near Kaikohe… Audio
Avocados thrive in sunny south
Richie Bocock believes his avocado grove on Banks Peninsula could be the southernmost in the world. Audio
Missile shaped fish screen hits the Rangitata River
A state-of-the art fish screening facility in mid-Canterbury prevents fish from entering the Rangitata diversion race intake at Klondyke and being swept into the 67km-long canal scheme. Audio
Salmon farmer balances growth with sustainability
Akaroa Salmon's ocean farm floats discreetly in a tranquil bay near the heads of Akaroa harbour. Seventeen huge round netted pens are home to thousands of King salmon of varying sizes. Duncan Bates… Audio
Country Life for Friday 13 May
Country Life this week heads out to sea with an Akaroa salmon farmer and meets pickers helping out with a bumper feijoa harvest in Hawke's Bay. Audio
Country Life for 6 May 2022
Country Life this week is having a yarn about Polwarth sheep and joins the audience at a country hall in Hawke's Bay which is among several in the district playing host to live music by top musicians.
…Market garden on farm provides staff with healthy vege boxes
Environmental and social trials are underway on a dairy farm near Ashburton. Rhys and Kiri Roberts are comparing conventional farming with a regenerative system, they're giving staff more work… Audio
Country Life for 29 April
Market garden on farm provides staff with healthy vege boxes, Swapping crops and building communities, Success comes from hard work and on the Farm - a wrap of farming conditions around NZ. Audio