Sally Wenley

Country Life is at a bull sale in North Canterbury, hears from long-time Pukekohe correspondent Stan Clark and learns how flour is ground the old fashioned way, by wind, in Foxton.

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This week Country Life hops on board a truck heading out to clean septic tanks, chats to a 13-year-old budding scientist who's helping beef up cattle with an experiment involving copper and discovers… Audio

Thirteen-year-old budding scientist Finlay Ludbrook has had success with an experiment to see whether giving copper to cattle calves improves their condition. Audio

Sally Wenley reviews Fairy Tale by Stephen King, published by Hachette. Audio

Horowhenua asparagus grower Geoff Lewis tells Sally Wenley about some of the challenges of growing a commercial crop of the vegetable and the best way to eat them. Audio

A new kind of farming could soon be having an impact on the rural landscape - paddocks of solar panels instead of cattle or crops.

A UK based company has just been given approval to install about… Audio

Country Life is in a secret location in the centre of the North Island digging under pine trees for ginseng, a root which is prized in traditional Chinese medicine. The team is also at the only… Audio

Fewer people are raising calves in some parts of the country this season, and concern is growing about a potential shortage of cattle further down the track. Audio

Country Life this week profiles two women with quite different farming journeys. Christine Fernyhough's farming experience at Canterbury's Castle Hill Station is a story of a woman midlife having a go… Audio

The New Zealand Embassy in Poland is doing all it can to return the body of Corporal Dominic Abelen home.

The soldier was on leave without pay from the Army when he died fighting against Russian… Audio

A New Zealand registered nurse has left her job at Middlemore Hospital's emergency department to be a combat nurse in Ukraine.

Shannon Taylor is preparing to leave for the invaded country where she… Audio